Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Played with one of the pads last night to see how it worked with the 
DTXxpress II.  Triggering was ok, but they do make a lot of noise 
with the regular heads.  In my situation, it probably won't be 
acceptable (child sleeping in the room above).  So I'm thinking of 
changing out the head to mesh on the snare, and selling off the rest 
of the pads (which is really why I snagged them in the first 
place)...

The pads fit the hex rod mounts (but were meant for the YESS ball 
type mounts), but the rods are way to long.  As such, I'd have to 
modify the rods to make them work, and the DTXtreme pads are a lot 
heavier than the rubber ones...

But they look so nice, it's hard to think about getting rid of 
them.  Also picked up a new RS80 rack at the same time (deal was too 
good to pass up) since I wanted to expand a little on the DTXpress, 
and it was almost cheaper to buy the whole rack than just the 
parts...


Thanks...


Steve


--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus" 
<liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "SKWatson" <skwatson@b...> wrote:
> > Just lucked into a new DTXtreme pad set (birch shell real head 
> > pads).  I'm now wondering if anyone here can/would like compare 
and 
> > contrast their experience with these pads vs the DTXpressII
(which 
> > I've only had for a month and love).  Also, does anyone have 
> > experience in using these pads with the DTXpress module...
> 
> SK,
> 
> Coupla things. The DTXtreme rack was aluminum, too. I should also 
> clarify that if your pads came with the YESS mounting system (I 
don't 
> know whether all of them did), they might work with the Xpress 
> hardware/plasticware, but they were not made for it.
> 
> Ed