Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

>  Hey all I am getting my dtx press II in like a week (cant wait).  Is
>  there anything special I should know?  I have been playing acoustic
>  drums for 3 years now.  Thanks.

Yes.  If you have to sell your drum set, DO NOT sell the snare drum!  You'll 
need it for keeping your rudiments up.  Take the head off and put in a Hart 
Dynamics Kontrol Screen DOUBLE PLY head.  This is a mesh head, and this will 
keep the noise level WAY down for practicing rudiments.  I have a mesh head 
pad (home made) I use for this purpose, and it works with the brain on the 
DTXpress II very well! 

Second thing, get a pair of bass drum beater patches (oh, if you have a double 
pass pedal set) that is normally used to protect bass drum heads.  I suggest 
this because the rubber material on the KP-65 pad tends to crumble easily 
into very small pieces where the beaters strike the surface.  I have checked 
with Yamaha themselves, and this will not invalidate any part of the warranty 
for the drum kit.  Be sure that it's thin as hell, so that it doesn't 
increase the noise like the thicker ones do (because they have a hard 
backing).  I made the mistake of not checking for that first, and now, I have 
a cloth wrapped around it to cut the pad noise down.

Enjoy your new kit.  I've had mine for almost 4 months now, and it's been a 
lot of fun thus far!

Stephanie