Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hey darren, we welcome you and your questions!  I'm a newbie to e-
drums as well, about one month old on the edrum world and loving 
every second of it!  I can give ya a little help though!  The KP65 
is the black circular kick pad that can be used with a double bass 
pedal.  Hitting the actual pad is not "clangy" but it does provide a 
little sound of course, nothing worse than hitting a tom pad 
though.  If you want to see a pic of it check out my photo folder 
called "underneathheavens set"  I'll have new pics posted soon too!  


--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Darren Lo <lo@m...> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm a complete newbie (both to e-drums and to drums in general) who
> bought a used first-generation DTXpress off eBay in the spirit of 
fun
> and experimentation. Everything seems to work great, except for 
the kick
> tower, which is completely dead. The cause of death may have been 
the 
> "tender" ministrations of UPS. In any case, I'm now in the market 
for a
> new kick trigger (preferably cheap), and was looking at the KP65. 
I have
> a few questions, to wit:
> 
> 1) Will the KP65 work with the old DTXpress module?
> 2) How is the noise level compared to the KP60, which seems quite
> loud and clangy?
> 3) Are there any other good options in a similar price range? 
(Seems
> unlikely.)
> 4) What does the KP65 actually look like? Is it a large circular 
rubber
> pad atop two "buttresses", or does it look kind of like the KP60? 
I've
> seen pictures of both called the KP65, so at least one of them 
must be
> wrong.
> 5) Not really related to the previous four, but some kick towers 
are
> labeled as stereo. What advantage would a stereo kick tower have? 
Double
> bass?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer me.
> 
> Darren Lo
> lo@m...