Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi David,

It's unlikely that the electronic hh will ever have make exactly the 
same impression on you as your acoustic hh, but we can check a few 
things. In the trigger menu, is pad type for the hh correct? You can 
also try one of the misc settings. Is your gain setting too low? If 
so, your hits may not be registering as loudly as they could. A 
brighter frequency cutoff in the Voice menu might help a little, 
too, if the trigger sounds dull. You could also go into the utility 
menu and set the UT System VolMode for live (rather than practice), 
allowing you to adjust relative volume levels of the pads using the 
the ACCOMP and CLICK knobs on the front of the module. Check the 
manual. I'm assuming from your post that you aren't having a problem 
with dropouts, which has been identified in this forum as the 
consequence of poor default rejection settings involving the snare 
and hh inputs.

Finally, how are you listening? Frequency response can be affected 
by different source components. Some headphones and amps don't 
reproduce the higher frequencies very well, making it seem as though 
their levels are reduced relative to the mids or the lows. 

That said, the hh trigger (but not controller) situation with the 
DTXpress, or any other Yamaha DTX product in my opinion, is far from 
optimal. You may well find, after exhausting all your options with 
the pad and module as delivered, that another company's trigger 
might be attractive--even if you manage to get the level where you 
like it better.

Ed
--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "davidb" <davidb@p...> wrote:
>  
> I Know that the volume of any sound on your DTXpress II in 
changeable, but i don´t know why all the the Hihat sounds (Close, 
open, and kicking with the foot), are in a low volume in all the pre-
set kits.
>  
> I play also acoustic drums and the most sound that i hear always 
is the HH, snare and Bass.
>  
> Although i put all the HH volumes at 127 and the others at 100 
(even 90) I can´t hear the same as my acoustic drum (I Know it will 
be never the same thing, but something seemed?)
>  
>  
> Someone knows any solution to this ??
> No one of you have this problem ??
>  
> Thanks,
>  
>  
>  
>  
> Atte:
> DAVID BOIX
> Pista Cero Barcelona
> * Tel      +34-93- 505 94 24
> È Movil   +34 - 620 24 91 16
> * Fax    +34-93- 505 94 22
> - e-mail   mailto: davidb@p... <mailto:davidb@p...> 
> *  web       http://www.pistacero.es <http://www.pistacero.es/>


--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "davidb" <davidb@p...> wrote:
>  
> I Know that the volume of any sound on your DTXpress II in 
changeable, but i don´t know why all the the Hihat sounds (Close, 
open, and kicking with the foot), are in a low volume in all the pre-
set kits.
>  
> I play also acoustic drums and the most sound that i hear always 
is the HH, snare and Bass.
>  
> Although i put all the HH volumes at 127 and the others at 100 
(even 90) I can´t hear the same as my acoustic drum (I Know it will 
be never the same thing, but something seemed?)
>  
>  
> Someone knows any solution to this ??
> No one of you have this problem ??
>  
> Thanks,
>  
>  
>  
>  
> Atte:
> DAVID BOIX
> Pista Cero Barcelona
> * Tel      +34-93- 505 94 24
> È Movil   +34 - 620 24 91 16
> * Fax    +34-93- 505 94 22
> - e-mail   mailto: davidb@p... <mailto:davidb@p...> 
> *  web       http://www.pistacero.es <http://www.pistacero.es/>