Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- OldGuy wrote:
> Be careful...it can be addictive...

I'm sure it is. But I have a huge family holiday to Canada coming up 
(and with five "adults" in the family, we ain't talking cheap) and 
we have to pay for it soon. Putting that at risk would leave me with 
insufficient limbs to drum anyway. Kinda focuses the mind...

> I think "if I scoot this over a
> little, shift this up a little..."

It's funny you should mention that. I got a dose of tweak-itis at 
the weekend. A simultaneously useful and frustrating aspect of the e-
drum game is how easy it is to tweak the layout. After all, they're 
not heavy or hard to release. Back in the bad old days (before even 
racks were commonplace) tweaking the setup was decidedly hard work. 
Loosening a tom mount could end up with it falling and damaging your 
bass drum, and dropping an 18" ride on your foot was never much fun. 
But after a couple of hours of tweaking my e-drum layout (and inch 
here, and inch there), and deciding it wasn't quite as good as I 
thought it would be... I couldn't remember *exactly* where the damn 
things were in the first place.

Newbies, be warned... when you have a layout you're initially happy 
with, either write it down or take pictures before you too end up 
(as Freddie Mercury once put it) going slightly mad...

Stewart