Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Scott,

Nonmusicians who see my kit tend to be dazzled by it. It looks to 
them like modern art. Diehard acoustic drummers, who often know very 
little about electronics, are a little more circumspect, if not 
downright shy. It seems a little threatening. One who recently 
visited didn't quite know what to make of it, but he was drawn to 
the Visu-lite hi hat, which, to him, seemed oddly out of place but 
at least comprehensible on his terms. To me, it's the perfect 
complement. 

Ed

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "hairytrigger" <artifax@i...> wrote:
> Hey, Ed.
> When I first brought my E-Kit to the stage, the only complaint I 
got 
> from my bandmates was appearance; they didn't look like drums! No 
> complaints about the sound. (I had been triggering my acoustics 
for 
> several years.) I found a large plastic planter tray, mounted this 
in 
> front of my kick pad(a la bass drum) and put the band logo on it. 
> Filling this void made a huge improvement to the look.And it made 
me 
> feel less exposed.
> Once, a guy got up to sing a few songs with us. Afterwards, we 
were 
> talking, and someone mentioned my kit. This singer looked back up 
at 
> the stage and said he didn't even realize they were 
electronic. "And 
> I'm an Acoustic Drum Purist," he said!
> Scott