Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- Elliott wrote:

> HI ALL I AM BETTER NOW!!!

Well, your lungs have certainly improved. Could you dial the volume 
down a bit? Check the capslock key...

 I AM LOOKING TO BUY A NEW TOM PAD WITH 
> TRIPLE TRIGGER AND A NEW CYMBAL PAD WITH DOUBLE TRIGGER

Hmm. Did you really mean three-trigger tom? Like the TP65S? I ask 
because the DTXpressII and III brains as standard only have three 
inputs that will work with that pad ... snare (2) and crash/ride 
cymbals (6/7). Yamaha doesn't do any regular stereo tom pads any 
more, you'd have to go for a used TP80S or get a mono TP65 pad.

> DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY WEBSITES TO GET THE CHEAP BECAUSE
> I CAN GET THEM FOR £70=TOMS £60=CYMBAL

Newcastle Drum Centre 
(http://www.newcastledrum.co.uk/triggers/index.html) has the TP65S 
for £69 and the PCY65S (stereo cymbal) for £49. Piedog 
(http://www.piedog.com/) used to list them separately, but I can't 
see them today. Be prepared to wait ... I have always been quoted 
eight weeks for separate pads.

> ALSO DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN GET THE STAND/CLAMPS
> FOR BOTH OF THESE BECASUE I CANT FIND THEM ANYWHERE.

These are very much harder to come by in the UK. For the cymbal you 
could get an inexpensive boom from someone like Stagg or Performance 
Percussion, and a universal clamp from Stagg or Gibraltar. Together 
they would cost you about £32 or so. The tom clamp is rather harder. 
You could use a standard "YESS" Yamaha tom clamp (as used on their 
acoustic toms) as it's the same hex rod, together with another 
Gibraltar universal clamp. Again, you'd be talking about another £30 
for those two.

EBay is a good place to look, but it's not for the young or faint-
hearted.

Stewart