Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

When I first got my set my friends, who are in a little band, told 
me that me if I'd played with them then they would sound like Devo 
or, more modern sounding electronic rockers, Orgy.  Obviously they 
were naive.  I turned it on, showed em how many sounds it had, and 
played some stuff.  They now realize that we're in the year 2005 and 
electronic sets are made to sound like anything you want them to.  
With the addition of extra pieces they're even more impressed!  When 
I was at my music shop the other day I was discussing my set with my 
friend/employee there.  He asked how I played the bass drum with 
electronic kits and I said with Iron Cobras!  Which caused him to 
asked, "ohh you can use real pedals on that thing?"  Uh huh...

-UN.H


--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus" 
<liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> 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