Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

HI OGD,

I understood that you were using a mono-piezo/dual rim-switch, 
and mono-piezo pad, and isolating the rim switch pathway from 
one pad, and the mono-piezo pathway from the other.

What I was asking was what 'trigger type' setting you selected on 
the module's trigger selection menu.  You can end up with 
interesting results when mixing and matching pads with different 
designs with different 'pad type' settings on the module.

But in retrospect, I think I gotcha.  And as you've shown, the 
rim-switch and piezo don't have to physically be on the same 
pad, although reliable triggering of the 'rim' sound pretty much 
demands having a piezo on the same pad as the rim-switch.

A pretty easy approach to separating the triggering of the 'head' 
and the 'rim' to two physically different pads involves using a 
stereo 'y' cable (headphone splitter) plugged into the same 
trigger input.  

I do that frequently with a PCY80 and PCY80S, since hitting the 
edge of the mono-piezo pad gives the 'head' sound, and hitting 
the 'edge' of the piezo/rim-switch pad gives the 'rim' sound.  All 
you have to do is hit the pads on their edges (kinda like what you 
do with 'real' crash cymbals)....

Chris

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "oldguydrummer" 
<rdamon@m...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "feefer2" <feefer2@y...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> > You didn't say what 'pad type' was selected when you did 
this, 
> > but even there, it IS possible to trigger the 'rim' sound with a 
> 
> 
> Chris,
> 
> Pad1 was a TP65S (stereo pad, one piezo/two rim switches) 
using only 
> the rim switches.
> 
> Pad2 was a TP65 (mono pad, one piezo only).
> 
> Even when both were connected (Pad1 rim + Pad2 Piezo), 
striking the 
> either rim produced nothing. Only by striking both pad1 and 
pad2 
> produced the rim sound.
> 
> 
> OGD