Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I've had this particular problem,... sorta. When I would play, it would
seem that some of the bass drum notes would play *much* louder than
others, even though the amount of force applied to the pedal was more or
less the same. I played with the rejection settings and found I could
lessen this.

For your particular problem, I would suggest you use these steps to test:

Sit at the set and play 1/4 notes on the kick with no other pads being
played. Do you get consistent kicks or intermittent? If consistent, then
try adding other pads into the beat. If you start to get kick drum
"dropouts" (where you kicked, but no note or a very quite note) produced,
it would appear to be a rejection issue. Changing the rejection settings
should cure this.

If the kick is *not* consistent when playing 1/4 notes solo, then try
replacing the cable between the kick pad and the back of the module. (I
know, pretty simple suggestion but cables *do* go bad and the motion of
the kick tower can cause a small short to come and go if the cable is
marginal).

If the cable swap doesn't fix it, try moving the cable from the "kick"
plug on the back of the module to the "mid tom" or one of the other toms
and try the same experiment. Do you hear the 1/4 notes consistently with
a tom sound? If so, it could be a problem with the kick input on the
module. This would be pretty unlikely, since the module itself is solid
state and doesn't bear the brunt of impacts from the beater.

If the intermittent triggering happens when the kick pedal is plugged
into the tom input, then it is most likely the kick tower itself that is
producing intermittent output... Hope this helps :)

Vern

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pinoyboy71 said:
> I did a search and did not find a similar query. I have just
> connected my system and it seems that the bass drum is not picking up
> every time i hit it. I am wondering if the pad has a break in period.
> Is the pad just not sensitive enough and needs a good stomp on the
> pedal? Perhaps the volume on the brain is not loud enough and i've
> tried tinkering w/ it to no avail. I have them connected to
> headphones and everything else is working great.
>
> This is my first drum set so i'm not sure if there's a proper load of
> force i need to put on the pedal in order for the pad to pick up the
> noise. Obviously w/ an acoustic set i wouldn't have this problem, So
> does the pad just need to be broken in?
>
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