Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi Ed,

Wow, I didn't know you and I went to the same Guitar Center?  ;)

The drum department needs to have a height requirement, just 
like some of the rides at Disneyland.  ;)  A pre-entrance I.Q. test 
and credit / background check wouldn't hurt, either.  :)

Chris

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "emf" <liberatusvirus@y...> 
wrote:
> I took a bit of a jaunt today to my closest GC to make a pitch for 
> the DTXpress SP and DTXtreme IIS. The guy who ran the drum 
section 
> heard me out politely and even agreed that the decision to 
stock the 
> Xpress STD instead of the other kits might not have been the 
best 
> idea. Not surprisingly, he justified the relative scarcity of 
Yamaha 
> (and Pintech) on the floor by the many Roland kits on display 
and was 
> happy to report that the TD-20 would be arriving soon. He may 
not 
> have got my point. I have no illusions.
> 
> At any rate, the STD was on the floor against the wall where the 
e-
> kits usually are. I would have tested the new sounds if the 
place had 
> not been in such unbearably noisy chaos. People were 
pounding on the 
> acoustic drums that occupied the middle of the room--the 
wrong 
> people, I might add. If I were king, I'd have crammed a bunch of 
> acoustic kits into one of the smaller side rooms, kept the doors 
> shut, and let the hordes beat on each others' eardrums until 
the cows 
> came home. I would also have placed mesh heads on all of 
the acoustic 
> drums that remained in the area where people do business 
and discuss 
> equipment. The e-drummers could keep playing through 
headphones in 
> the main area to their hearts' content (I don't doubt that 
McConaghy 
> has good reasons why my royal prerogratives might not work). 
> 
> As it was, I hightailed it out of there and went to the keyboard 
> section to listen to some of the Motif percussion sounds. I can't 
say 
> that my ability to navigate the Yamahas did anything like justice 
to 
> the drum sounds, but some of them were quite rich to my ears. 
> 
> Ed