Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "oldguydrummer" <rdamon@m...> wrote:
> To all:
> 
> I noticed that I wasn't getting the fully opened sound from my 
HH65. 
> 
> So I opened up the pedal and added a piece of rubber tubing just 
> below the rubber rocker pad that "rolls down" across the sensor. 
> This went in just between the where the rubber rocker pad connects 
> to the base plate with the two screws and the actually sensor strip 
> on the base plate. This forces the rubber pad back up off of the 
> sensor strip where the first contact position is made. 
> 
> The second thing I did was to take the spring from a second HH65 
> that I am no longer using and doubled up on the spring that is in 
> the one that I am using. This forces the metal foot plate back up a 
> whole lot better and seems to give a lot better feel to the pedal.

OGD,

Was the contact problem a consequence of aging per se? If so, we 
should highlight your fix somewhere. How did you double up on the 
spring?

Ed