Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hey Steward,  looks good!!  Looks like your tearing it up too! :)  I 
can't wait to see the extra pads but I doubt we'll have to wait long 
before you have more!  I also agree with the air-moving device!  I 
have three fans in my room because it gets so hot with my computer 
and stereo in here as well.  I have one fan pointed directly at my 
butt, another on a speaker, and the one the on the ceiling turned on 
high and I still get all sweaty!

-UN.H


--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "moosetication" 
<moosetication@y...> wrote:
> Well, my TP80S cymbals turned up this week, and after some 
tweaking 
> and another re-cabling exercise I think I'm done with my (to 
borrow 
> OldGuy's terminology) "phase I" setup.
> 
> Pictures are here:
> http://www.manley.org.uk/stewart/stewartp2.html
> 
> Shrewd folk will notice that, in the labeled picture, I have two 
> snare pads on input 2. I was faced with a dilemma... I liked the 
> real-estate and overall playability of the Pintech SE-102, but 
> wanted one good rim (usually for side-stick). I also like to play 
> some stuff that uses a "piccolo" snare. So a compromise hit me... 
I 
> will split both pads into input 2 using a stereo splitter (not 
> trying to split the rim/main, both are wired identically). I set 
up 
> the two rims as a piccolo sound and a sidestick, with the main pad 
> as a layered snare. Best of both worlds! Hopefully. I'm just 
waiting 
> to get the splitter cable, so it may yet not work out. I may do 
the 
> same trick with my "spare" TP65, and use it as a low ride between 
> the right-hand two TP80S pads, split into input 7 in the same way. 
> It'll be the same ride sound as on the crash/ride, of course, but 
> the pad will be in a more "natural" place for a ride.
> 
> And phase II? More inputs, Igor, more inputs. Sometime in the 
fall, 
> I will either get a brain with more inputs (perhaps the 
DTXtremeII), 
> or a second DTXpressII brain, or a trigger-MIDI converter. At that 
> time, I will be looking to add a mesh dual-zone snare, a "real" 
> separate piccolo, a bar pad, a couple more toms, and more cymbals.
> 
> Stewart