Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "G" <kickflippin@h...> wrote:
> The crashes are a good idea but personaly I'm not into the hi-hats 
at 
> all.I find that a traditional style hi-hat stand is hard to use 
with 
> a double bass pedal. One of the reasons I switched from acoustic 
to e-
> drums was that you can put your hi-hats anywere you want. Most of 
my 
> pre-set drumkits have 2 sets of hats. I use the rim of my floor 
tom 
> as a closed set of hats for when I'm using both bass pedals and 
can't 
> hold the hats closed.
> 
> George


George,

I have three hihats set up (using PCY65S pads) located on the left 
side, middle, and right side.

The left and right side are setup to function as "normal" hihats. 
The middle one is setup as a "reverse" hihat: pedal up=closed hihat, 
pedal down=open hihat. This way when playing double-bass, I can use 
the middle pad for a closed hihat. By using PCY65S, I get bow/edge 
sounds.

With the four-day holiday weekend, I found some extra time to 
reconfigure my set. I created a three-zone (cup/bow/edge) hihat for 
the left side that is controlled by a single HH65 pedal on the left 
side of the kit. Also, to go back to just two hihat pedals, I have 
patched the middle and right hihat pads to a single HH65 Pedal that 
sits on the right side. 

OGD