Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Ed, If you were asking about my homemade rack......
If you have a LOT of time, and LITTLE money, you could do it, but it 
is not quite as nice as a 'real' one. And not quite as sturdy as even 
the DTXpress rack. But, like all the designs on my site, a little $$ 
and some spare time wasted away.... But the pad designs are quite 
serviceable and not bad looking.
Scott
http://home.internetcds.com/~artifax/drumstuff/

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus" 
<liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "S - E - A" 
> <sonicenergyauthority@c...> wrote:
> > Future projects:
> > New rack - as mine is the Mk1 there's a lack of bracing that you 
> get with
> > the revised DTXpress kits. So it tends to wobble a bit while in 
use.
> > I scan ebay almost daily, but funds are tight. A know Gibraltar 
> hardware is
> > compatible, any other brands fit Yamaha clamps?
> > 
> > Might be tempted to get a mesh headed snare at some time - 
> suggestions
> > welcome - but I live in the UK which limits my options.
> > If I see one on ebay - perhaps a DTXpress Mk 2 module - are there 
> any
> > 'sonic' differences or are they basically the same?
> > Might also be tempted to get a cymbal shaped cymbal pad - the 
> Yamaha pads
> > are useable, but 'it don't mean a thing if they ain't got that 
> swing..'
> 
> I remember some pretty valuable information coming from the dark and 
> mysterious S-E-A in the past. The main differences between the 
> XpressI and II are the two-rim snare, cymbals/pads of a slightly 
> different texture, and a more user-friendly rack. I think that the 
> trigger menu may have a couple of different setup options for pad 
> types, or at least different wording. But my impression is that the 
> new wrinkles aren't the kind to make owners of a I run out to buy a 
> II. Maybe someone would dispute me on that. 
> 
> Pintech ConcertCasts are good, reasonably priced mesh-heads, and 
they 
> do business in the UK. Their website has a link to their European 
> staff. Besides possibly having an attenuated signal through the 
> Yamaha module (especially the rim), the Roland meshes are simply too 
> expensive for what they are, and the Harts don't necessarily mate 
all 
> that well, if you can even find them. A UK company that has almost 
no 
> presence in the US but has begun to manufacture woven head pads is 
> Koby. Apparently, their products are compatible with Yamaha 
> electronics. I have their website address if you're interested. 
> Pintech also makes 14-inch swinging gum-rubber cymbals that have 
gone 
> over well here. Stephen likes them; I like them; and others do too. 
> Run a search in the archives under Zenbal.
> 
> So far as hardware goes, Gibralter seems to be the company of choice 
> for bracing and stronger mounts. Pintech makes some better-quality 
> (read metal) clamps, stands, and braces as well. The Yamaha hardware 
> is generally standard in size. Metal clamps would have been far 
> better than the plastic ones, but it would have raised the price of 
> the kit considerably. The flimsiness of the aluminum tubing after a 
> point, no matter what you do to it, tends to be the ultimate 
limiting 
> factor in rack stability. I moved to a Pearl DR-80 rack, the 
longest-
> lived and least expensive in the Pearl line. It's solid as a rock, 
> but the drawback is that it's square rather than round, requiring 
> Pearl clamps exclusively, and not adjustable for height, although 
> mounts are available to compensate. Some of the group's members have 
> constructed their own racks (Scott?).
> 
> Ed