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Re: [DTXpress] Hi Hat Range

2003-09-11 by Paul Bentley

On Thursday, September 11, 2003, at 04:00  pm, brown8700 wrote:

> Found the following in message #700. Thought it had relavence to a
> recent discussion:
>
> <QUOTE>Briefly, on Hi-Hat pedals, the DTXpress pedal is fairly weak,
> but the DS-11 pedal is much better, the Roland hi-hat pedal is better
> still, but twice the price of the standard Yamaha. The difference is
> that the two Yamaha pedals are stepped for "closed", "semi-open"
> and "open" sounds, giving three distinct sound bands. The Roland is a
> smooth transition between semi-open and open which allows for more
> natural playing.
> NOTE: The DTX brains are capable of registering the full range, it's
> just the pedals which don't provide it.<END QUOTE>

Does that mean then that you get the full range of sounds like the 
Roland on the DTXpress with an after market pedal such as the Pintech 
HH-10CV? Anyone got one?

pb

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