Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

hello slava... before you run out and buy a new bass drum 
trigger, you might want to consider this: your downstairs 
neighbors may be able to hear your relatively quiet bass drum 
pad because the whole bass drum setup (pedal and trigger and 
trigger stand) is sitting firmly on your floor (aka their ceiling). 
essentially, they are only hearing the pad because the 
reverberation that it causes is easily being transfered through 
the floor/ceiling by means of physical contact (the vibration 
(sound) that results from the hammer hitting the pad travels 
through the stand and pedal and then on through the floor and to 
their ceiling). so, if you were to be able to elevate the whole bass 
drum setup off the floor and reduce the number of contact points 
with the floor, you would, theoretically, reduce the amount of 
reverberation that can be effectively transfered from your pedal to 
their ceiling. i have successfully worked through this type of 
problem (not this specific application but something similar) in 
the past. what i would attempt, would be to form a crude 
rectangular platform on which the bass drum pedal and trigger 
can sit. using something cheap and easy like plywood. then 
elevate the platform slightly off the ground with small rubber feet 
(like you would see on the bottom of a PA speaker cabinet - 
super bounce balls cut in half and hot glued into place would 
work wonderfully). put 4 rubber feet on the bottom of the platform. 
one in each corner. make sure the bass drum setup is not going 
to slip off the platform... and you should be good to go. in theory, 
this should reduce the amount of sound that travels from the 
bass drum pedal through your floor to their ceiling. you might 
want to make a similar platform for the high hat pedal... just to 
get both pedals at the same height. anyway, i hope that this 
helps. acoustics experiments are always fun to work with. most 
of the time, there is a bit of trial and error involved. this being no 
exception. good luck. and let me know if you have any questions. 

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Slava Polyakov 
<s_polyakov@y...> wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> i've been using dxpress for 1 year and could not find
> the solution to my biggest problem with dtx.... the
> acoustic noise of the bass drum trigger. i live in
> condo on the 6 floor and neighbours who live under me
> (on 5 floor) constantly complaine about the noise of
> my bass drum... does anybody know what is the most
> quiet bass trigger on the market???
> 
> thanks.
> slava.