Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Creighton,

Nice ingenuity. You have two kids in college? How on earth did you 
ever afford the Remo practice pad? Is there any possibility of 
covering the pad with a thin layer of rubber, say, from a mouse pad 
to cut down on the noise?

Ed

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "creighton_higgins" 
<creighton@l...> wrote:
> I have been one of the folks moaning about problems with the KP60 
> which shipped with the original DTXpress. Current circunstances 
have 
> prohibited me from replacing it with something excellent- (kids in 
> college, etc.). 
> 
> This weekend when the leads disintegrated on the piezzo for the 
third 
> time I built a trigger pad based on a Remo tunable practice pad. 
> (just like many of the DIY articles show.)I removed the rubber 
> striking surface from the kick tower and installed the Remo. I am 
> finding that my double triggers are gone, that I have much more 
> dynamic range, and that the pad feels much more "natural" than the 
> rubber block. The pad is, however, much louder than the original 
and 
> maybe projects 1/2" or so closer to the beater than the original.
> 
> If anyone is interested, I'll take some pictures of the setup and 
> will let you know how it endures.