Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

> A book by a drummer named Russ Miller, The Drum Set Crash Course, 

http://www.russmiller.com/v4/index2.html

$25 + $3 S&H

Welcome, and enjoy. If you get stuck with any questions, no matter 
how simple you think they are, just ask, there are lots of 
knowledgable good folks here that will be more than happy to help out.

The first thing that you will notice is the hi-hat will not be the 
same as an accoutics one. If you also visit www.vdrums.com you will 
also notice that this is somewhat universal with all electronic hi-
hats. Some are better than others, but none are perfect.(There was a 
rather heated discussion recently, related to modifying a hihat to 
get more of a realistic variation between open and close sounds at 
the vdrums site.)

You may also want to locate the hihat pad at the alternate location 
(by the module)and adjust the specific rejection down. This is set 
pretty high at the factory since the hihat pad and the snare pad 
share the same main mounting tube to keep the hihat from triggering 
when you hit the snare and vice-verse. What you might notice is that 
when you hit both the snare and the hihat at the same time, one or 
the other gets muted. By separating them to different main mounting 
tubes, and turning down the specific rejection, it will eliminate 
this problem.

Once you get to know your new set, it would interesting for you to 
check and see if the new updated rom chip is being shipped with the 
latest kits. This chip allows for choking of the dual zone PCY65S 
cymbals when they are plugged into zones 1-8. (Although I am not sure 
why you would what to choke the hihat cymbal on zone 8 though???) The 
original chip only allowed for choking of cymbals that were attached 
to zones 2, 6 & 7. The way to check would be to attach the PCY65s to 
zone 3, set zone 3 trigger type from TP65 to a PCY65 in the trigger 
setup utility, set the voice to a cymbal variety and try choking it. 
If it works, you have the revised rom chip, if not, you still have 
the original rom chip. Anyway that's why you really need to get the 
dtxchange utility to upload any changes to your computer before you 
start tweaking and messing around with various settings.

OldGuyDrummer