Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Sean McEvenue" <seann@s...> wrote:

> As for the splitter, I did ask for the TRS splitter specifically as 
I had learned of it from earlier posts.  Externally, the design 
appears correct.  Since your reply, I opened the casings on what were 
to be the two mono, quarter inch jack receivers in the splitter 
configuration.  I noted that there were three wire connections 
present.  I would have expected two for mono and three for stereo but 
electronics is not my thing.  By the way, the jacks at each end of 
the patch cords that I have used for these particular triggers are 
both mono.

Sean,

Who's the manufacturer of the splitter and what's the model number? 
I'll double-check the product description for you. If you use mono 
runs from the two pads into inputs 9 and 10 independently, do you get 
exactly the voice that you wanted in each case? If so, then the 
splitter would seem to be the problem. As for the three wires instead 
of the two expected inside the casing, it sounds suspicious to me (a 
layman), but because there's a way to balance a mono cable with three 
wires, the presence of an extra run, in itself, might not be a dead 
giveaway. One of my partners in crime, OGD, is an electrical 
designer, who loves to break things down and try to put them together 
again; he might have a more penetrating analysis. But let's get the 
model number of the splitter and check of the two mono inputs without 
use of the splitter.

Ed