Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I read the talk about potentiometers on cables, and thought this product may come handy, I saw these cables with a volume knob integrated in one of the plugs @ http://www.guyatone.com/other/speedcable.html I hope they're useful for someone someday.

Available in three lengths: 3 meters, 5 meters and 7 meters 
 
\ufffd High-purity, oxygen-free copper multi-conductor core wire and shield 
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 \ufffd Volume Plug -- High performance, zero-shorting volume slider  
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Pedro.

liberatusvirus <liberatusvirus@...> wrote:
--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "brown8700" <brown8700@a...> wrote:
--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "brown8700" <brown8700@a...> wrote:
> As a player of a Pintech/Yamaha rig, I'm interested in this 250K 
pot. 
> I haven't been interested in pot since the 70s, and certainly I'm 
not 
> interested in any pot for 250K. But if it will make my kit more 
> responsive, I'll at least investigate.
> 
> Seriously, what is a 250K pot?

Stephen,

A pot, or potentiometer, is an electronic component used to change 
the reistance in a circuit to permit volume adjustments. It's often 
found as a rotary control (a volume knob). Jun is pointing out that 
because the inputs on the Yamaha module have no sensitivity control 
of their own, some non-Yamaha pads are going to send signals into 
them like gangbusters and register every hit at too high a level, 
without graduated steps. A pot spliced into the cable leading from 
one of these pads (a Roland, Pintech, or what have you) into a Yamaha 
input would allow the user to adjust the signal strength to keep 
light and intermediate hits from registering too high a gain. The 
Yamaha pads have their own pots to compensate for what the module 
lacks (the TP80S had the sensitivity knob on the bottom), leaving 
other companies' at a disadvantage. The 250k is simply a measurement 
of that resistance, allowing for enough signal attenuation to create 
a smooth curve.

Ed


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