Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Yeah, Creighton. I'm certainly old enough to remember the first 
Simmons electronic kits back in the mid-80s. In fact, I contemplated 
buying one, but in the end, the sounds were so few and so gimmicky 
and the feel so bad that I ended up passing on it. The pads, I 
think, were rubber-covered plywood with a piezo stuck to it. If you 
think that playing on gum rubber can be hard on your wrists, you can 
imagine what a hard wooden surface would have been like. The very 
first module was analog (ddrum still is, but far more advanced); the 
next wave was digital but at a very low bit rate. 

Ed

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "underneathheaven" <realvast@s...> 
wrote:
> The old octagonal pads were made by simmons.  My drunk drummer 
> friend and I were just talking about them the other day!  He 
> says, "yeah my friend who has a studio has a $3000.00 set!"  I was 
> like, "wow, who makes it?"  I'm thinking Roland or Yamaha or 
> something and he tells me, "simmons!" :)
> 
> -UN.H
> 
> 
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, rdamon@m... wrote:
> > http://www.netaxs.com/~jeffc/gearpage/simmons.html
> > 
> > Is this what you are talking about?
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From:	Creighton Higgins [SMTP:creighton@l...]
> > > Sent:	Friday, April 11, 2003 10:36 AM
> > > To:	DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
> > > Subject:	RE: [DTXpress] Octagonal pads
> > > 
> > > could those be Simmons? some older-timers might know.There is 
a 
> used
> > > module at Drumbalaya's site:      <http://www.drumbalaya.com/>
> > > 
> > > 	-----Original Message-----
> > > 	From: Nick Carroll [mailto:njcarroll56@y...]
> > > 	Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 9:40 AM
> > > 	To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
> > > 	Subject: [DTXpress] Octagonal pads
> > > 	
> > > 	
> > > 	Does anybody remember those octagonal pads that a lot of e-
> drummers 
> > > 	were using in the 1980s? Anyone know what brand of kit they 
> were 
> > > 	playing? I'd love to have some of those '80s sounds on my 
> DTXpress, 
> > > 	because at some stage I'd like to be in a Genesis ("And Then 
> There 
> > > 	Were Three" era) cover band.
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