Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

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> Your third question on choking, unfortunately I think comes down to
> technique.

Idea #1 Angle the pad down a bit more so you are not inadvertently
hitting the edge of the cymbal pad with the shaft of the stick. Man this
is hard stuff to describe. We need a video confernece! :) What I mean is
if you tend to "slide" the stick tip or shaft down the pad after a hit it
can cause a choke. Does that make sense?

Idea #2: If you are not intersted in a choke for your performance, you
can just set the pad type to PCY65 (not PCY65S) and I think that will
cause the choke to be in-active. A cheat way to do this is to use a mono
patch cable for that pad for the duration of the show. Again, this will
stop the choke from happeneing even if you *want* a choke, so keep that
in mind.

> The basic DTXPRESSII comes with a PCY65S for a ride
> cymbal that has pad and edge triggering with choking and a PCY65 for
> the crash that has pad triggering only.

Hey, OGD, I was wondering about this... maybe I set mine up wrong, but I
have the "ride" as the PCY65 single zone pad on the far right of my kit
and the crash/choke/dual zone OCY65S on the left. I coulda sworn that was
how it was in the manual... or maybe I just set mine up wrong... :)

Vern