Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

cheers ed, gonna go with 4 pc's.



--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "emf" <liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "peterpan" <malakies2000@y...> 
wrote:
> > 
> > hello everyone,
> > 
> > i'm contemplating buying as many as 6 new pintech tc 10's in 
order 
> to 
> > emulate a much fuller cymbal set up. however i've never seen or 
> used 
> > these cymbals before and haven't heard much about them at all. if 
> > anybody in the group has any experience with them, please let me 
> > know, even if its something short it would be much appreciated!
> 
> Hi Pete,
> 
> I don't remember what your cymbals are now, so I don't know exactly 
> what you'd be expecting the TCs to do. I've played them (I've tried 
a 
> lot of gear, but not enough :-). I'd say that their level of 
> comparative performance matches their rank in the cost scale. If 
> you're used to the main cymbal lines of Yamaha, Roland, Hart, Visu-
> lite, and Pintech (even with any personal reservations that you 
might 
> have about any of them), the TC series will be decidedly inferior. 
I 
> remember them choking themselves and triggering too erratically to 
be 
> dependable in serious situations. As placeholders in a largely 
> practice configuration, however, they may be fine. Pintech's new 
line 
> (the PCs) are a better bet (I've never tried them; I wish Brian 
would 
> send me one). I realize that the price is twice as high, but maybe 
> you could get three PC10s instead of six TC10s.
> 
> Ed