Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

UNH,

Given all the years that we've known each other, my answer probably 
won't come as a surprise: Visu-lites--rides, crashes, and hats. 
Here's my ranking from worse to best: Hart ride (poor tracking and 
volume), although the crashes through Yamaha supposedly work fine 
(ask Walt and Sam); Roland CY-6 (a little thin and finicky, though 
all stereo cymbals seem at least a bit unreliable); the Yamaha 
wedges; Pintech Zenbal (primarily the stereo version used as two 
crashes--the bow is too narrow, and the rim too pronounced, to suit 
me as a ride, though I'll bet that the mono Zenbal would make a good 
ride); finally, the Visu-lites, which are a revelation. Ask Jade 
about them, too. Please take my view with a grain of salt; e-
cymbals, like everything else in electronic drumming, have an 
element of personal taste, but, in general, I'd say that e-cymbals 
are the most problematical triggers, especially the stereo ones. 
Until I tried the Visu-lites, I was resigned to a certain amount of 
unreliabiity. Not anymore.

Ed

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "underneathheaven" <realvast@s...> 
wrote:
> I've seen people discuss Roland cymbals, Pintech, and Zenbals but 
> somewhere along the way I didn't pick up which worked the best 
with 
> Yamaha.  I'm not talking which one works good or ok with the 
> dtxpress, I want one that functions properly all the time.  (The 
> actual round e-cymbals.)  Thanks for repeating the information!
> 
> -UN.H