Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Alright folks, strap your brain caps on I have some rapid fire 
questions for ya. 


1. How far do you push the drums onto the metal posts. I have about 1 
inch showing becuase it was so hard to push the drums onto the 
mounting post. Should I push harder?

2. The dual zone cymbal has a sensitivity screw on the bottom. I used 
a perfect sized screwdrive but I still had to push kinda hard to get 
it to turn. Has anyone here messed with it? How hard to you have to 
push to break it??? The said to be carful in the manual but I didnt 
read that before hand. And what actually does it do? I was having 
problems with the crash overpowering the rest of the kit. Should I 
have just turned down the volume of the cymbal instead of the screw? 
I take it the screw is for velocity sensitivity right?

3. I am having the same problem others are having with the hi-hat, 
making the snare drum louder or softer or just not triggering at all. 
Is there an easy link to the fix? I can search thru these posts if 
thats the easiest way. 

4. Can I make my Hi-Hat louder? I can barely hear it! I went into the 
settings and found that the hi-hat volume was set at 127 the higest 
you could go (maybe I was in the wrong spot). Am I going to have to 
turn down the rest of my system to make the hi-hat louder? Or is this 
a result of that known problem?

5. How can I adjust the volume of the toms and the cymbals?

6. What sensitivity setting do you all use? CUSTOM? Becuase Meduim 
seems to work best for me so far. With dynamic setting it picks up 
almost no ghost notes, and I have to hit the drums too hard to get 
maximum trigger. With easy, I have the ghost notes and sensitivity 
but everything sounds the same. Cant I have the sensitivity of Easy 
with the expression of medium? My friends practice pad is a piece of 
crap, and you can paradiddle/ghost note all day on it. Either these 
pads are really cheap, or I dont have them set up right. Im not 
looking for perfection or anything either. 

7. How do I adjust Hi-hat foot pedal so I dont have to push 
unnessasarily hard, to get it to full closed position?

Whew! Please number your answers so I know what questions you are 
answering. And THANK YOU VERY MUCH!