Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

The biggest improvement I made to my kit was firmly mounting the kick pedal
and tower to a piece of masonite. Set it and forget it. Far less noise. No
rocking, no strike angle change when you tighten the clamp, and no creeping
thanks to hook-side-down Velcro strips on the underside. I designed it to
come apart quickly for transport (though it travels well together) or if
there's a kick hardware failure.

I can post a picture if anyone's interested.

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pete


> From: "Bill " <groovinbill@...>
> Reply-To: DTXpress@egroups.com
> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:19:01 -0000
> To: DTXpress@egroups.com
> Subject: [DTXpress] Comments & Questions
> 
> 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