Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "jebersohl" <john@d...> wrote:
> I'm new to the site and would like to know how to use the layers 
> feature on the DTX II.  Will this feature get me closer to a true 
> acoustic sound?  I would like to use the kit to record with my band 
> on a home computer and don't want the electronic 
sounding "acoustic" 
> drums on the recording.  Is this possible and can anyone help?  
> Thanks.

Hi John,

Welcome to the group. A stab at answering your question 
commprehensively could use up all of the bandwidth that we're 
allotted here. I'll assume that you don't want to know how to set 
voice layers; that's one of the functions that the manual handles 
well enough. Do you want to know what criteria to use when layering 
to create the best approximation of an acoustic snare?  That's a 
tough one. First of all, it's subjective; different people have 
different tolerances and tastes. Second, Yamaha's voice names don't 
always give an indication of what they sound like, which means that 
experimenting is unavoidable. Layering can give a voice more or less 
ring, punch, depth, etc. When my snare sound came from the DTXpressI, 
I was partial to Snare H and Wood Snare (16 and 23 on the dial), and 
I don't remember even layering them. One of the group's longtime 
members recently sent me two fairly polished studio CDs for which he 
used the DTXpress module for the snare. It sounded good enough for me 
to ask which voice he was using--Steel 65 as it turns out. I hope 
that people will step up and suggest the layers and voices on the II 
that approximate acoustic sounds best to them.

Ed