Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "hairytrigger" <artifax@i...> wrote:
> Pete,
> Here's what I know about ddrum and crosstalk. A few years back, K&K 
> sound invented a device called the 'Trigmaster.' It is a device 
that 
> can tell the difference between an actual drum stick strike, and 
any 
> other vibration. When I used acoustic drums with ddrum triggers, 
the 
> trigmaster was able to filter virtually all extraneous vibrations. 
I 
> could trigger without muffling the drum heads at all. This is 
amazing. 
> The story goes, that at a trade show, a ddrum rep saw the K&K 
> trigmaster, and stole the idea. It is now incorporated into all 
ddrum 
> modules, thus eliminating a crosstalk setting.
> If you are triggering acoustic drums, I strongly reccomend the 
> Trigmaster.

Pete and Scott,

Ed Morin plays a ddrum live-precisely the situation in which it is 
supposed to be most vulnerable to crosstalk. He told me that he has 
never had any trouble. But the other matter about ddrum, unless the 
latest version is a departure, is that, unlike the Yamahas and 
Rolands, it has no effects of its own. You have to buy outboard 
units, which would probably be an improvement, though it would 
further jack up the price.

Ed