Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

First of all - congrats to the board on its 1st birthday.  As a 
dtxpress owner for 4 months, this board has been critical to 
shortening my learning curve.

Just had first "audition/practice" last night at a local church for 
drummer for their praise team.  Knew the songs beforehand so did 
pretty well considering I've been playing only 4 months after 37 
years of no playing (yes - I'm much older than most of you guys).  
Best part - they thought I was great regardless of what I thought.

Prior to playing I read a post about changing the decay rate on hi-
hat to get a more realistic, sustained sound.  Boy, what a change 
that was - did the trick and it sounded much better.

Last thing - while at the church I kept noticing noise from the bass 
drum pedal and kick tower.  It was very distracting.  Seems that the 
pedal might have been bottoming-out.  Hadn't noticed this at home - 
probably because carpet at home is real thick and at church real 
thin.  Pedal I got with kit was lowest grade Yamaha.  Since I am new 
at this, can someone recommend a very good pedal which might solve 
the problem.  Any other recommendations will be much appreciated.

Thanks to all.

Bill