Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hey, Stephen. Thanks for your feedback re the choke feature on the 
ride pad. Following your advice I have changed the pad type to Misc 
1, and my problem of the unwanted choke is solved!  So thank you! I 
can understand that you might miss the choke facility - you probably 
play jazz and use it quite a lot.  I play country rock, and I have 
very little use for it.  I have programmed a second crash as my ride-
rim sound, instead of a bell, and that suits me really well.

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "brown8700" <brown8700@a...> wrote:
> Nick:
> As Ed said, I recently upgraded to the Pintech Zenbals. They're 
> fabulous, but it took me a while to find that out. When I first got 
> them, I couldn't get them to react properly, so I ordered some 
Rolan 
> CY-6 with the intent of returning the Zenbals. I hated the CY-6 and 
> sold them to a friend. I picked up (on a rial basis) some Hart 
> cymbals. I liked them but missed the dual zone and especially (get 
> this) the choke feature. So I went back to the PCYs. On a lark I 
> thought I would try the Zenbals again, now having more knowledge 
than 
> when I first got them. I set them up, fiddled with 'pad 
type', 'gain' 
> and 'mvel' and lo and behold, I love 'em.
> 
> Now, as far a disabling the choke feature goes, you can certainly 
do 
> that by changing the pad type to misc2 or DT snare. If I were you, 
> I'd keep the choke feature and just try to play around the problem 
by 
> learning to hit the cymbal from a different angle. I had to do this 
> with the Zenbals as the rim is quite high.
> 
> Stephen