Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

What lead goes from the toms - Is it a mono or a stereo one?

I do appologise for my last question - I have now searched the 
archives and found something that completely confuses me as it seems 
to suggest that you can add two mono pads to one of the 'dual' 
inputs ???

PS I know you guys have obviously tried this a 1000 times and it 
doesn't work - but please bear with me as I cling on to the last 
shred of hope of me getting a DTxpress kit to make Neil Peart 
jealous ?!?!

anyway - here's what I've found....

"In order for choking to work, you need to use a PCY80S or a PCY65S.
The choking feature is a part of the rim switch feature that 
is only available on the PCY80S and the PCY65S.

IF you have a stereo cymbal pad, then you will need to set the 
trigger type to a "PCY Crash" pad. Then go to the voice settings for 
that pad and assign a voice for both the pad and for the rim. So if 
it is plugged into input no. 7, you must set Trig In= 7 voices for 
both the pad and the rim. You must also remember to use a stereo 
(Tip/Ring/Sleeve) cable between the pad and the module. Using a mono 
(Tip/Sleeve) cable with a only give you the pad sound and no choking 
even if you have everything else setup correctly."

So why can't I wire two seperate mono pads up using the same stereo 
(Tip/Ring/Sleeve) cable and select one as pad and one as switch and 
assign two differnt sounds to each?  The only reason I can think 
that this won't work is that the switch can't be triggered by 
itself, but only as a direct 'mute' of the pad that it is assigned 
to! Therefore I would have to hit the trigger pad then immediatly 
hit the switch pad to get any sound out?

Wow, I hope that makes some sense?


Cheers.