Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Joe,

Welcome to the list. There are a few of us non-Xpressers here, myself
included (DS10), and we're allowed to post as long as we don't make fun of
the red stabilizer have-nots.

Bizarre kick problem. I can't say I've seen anything like that (I assume
your brain is DTX v2) and I've plugged my kit into a mixer and my 400 watt
peavey PA a hundred times without any problems.

Do you find this problem with all the preset kits or just some of them. And
is it true for whatever kick sound you select? What's it like through
headphones?

For some strange reason I've always preferred to plug my RCA jack into the
aux port on the kick tower instead of the main one. You might try that.

Apart from the explosive kick, how do you like the kit?


pete


p.s.: Maybe you've just got an incredibly strong right leg, like a world
class cyclist or field goal kicker.



> From: toyrobot@...
> Reply-To: DTXpress@egroups.com
> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:23:27 -0000
> To: DTXpress@egroups.com
> Subject: [DTXpress] Problems with kick drum volume when recording (a little
> long)
> 
> I hope this isn't off topic, there doesn't seem to be an equivalent
> group for the DS-12. I bought this set so I would have a kit to record
> with at home. Just plug it in to the mixer and go. Trouble is, the
> kick drum sound on every single kicj is insanely loud. Just turning
> the kick sound down doesn't really help, because the peak is so high
> it needs to be turned down too much and the kit sounds awful. There's
> just this incredible peak at the very start of the waveform. The first
> time I used it, I blew the fuses in my main power amp, and this was
> NOT at a high volume. I've also tried to send the kick to an aux
> output to deal with it seperately on the mixer, but the process needed
> to do this is ridiculously complcated, and frankly doesn't seem to
> work very well (Why they couldn't have made this easier, and GLOBAL,
> so that it would change all the outputs for all the kits at the same
> time I don't know).
> On the other hand, maybe I'm just an idiot, if anyone can tell me what
> I'm doing wrong, I would appreciate it.
> Joe