Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Vern, how do you have your ride cymbal set up now?  I have mine set 
up like oldguy's because I usually play rock and don't need an edge 
of the ride cymbal sound for anything.  I actually made the decay 
longer on my ride cymbal crash sound than my other crash cymbals 
too, I like it.

-UN.H


--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Vernon Graner" <vern@t...> wrote:
> Ok, so last night I was rehearsing w/some friends and looking at 
the
> right side of my kit and thinking... wouldn't it be neat if there 
was a
> way to cause the sound assignment on the ride to change with the 
position
> of the hat pedal? Think of it this way, if I'm doing a fill and I 
release
> the hat pedal, that pad is a *crash*, if I hold down the hat 
pedal, it's
> a ride....
> 
> By the time we were done rehearsing, it was late, so I just 
crashed and
> didn't investigate the idea.. This morning, I started thinking 
about it
> again. Anyone care to chime in on this idea's possibility? :)
> 
> Vern
> 
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