Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Ed,

I definitely have been trying to keep the rejection settings as low 
as possible, but the acoustic kick quickly "double talks" because of 
the vibrating heads or the "slap back" of the resonant head.  The 
redshot trigger is mounted on the batter head side.  right now, the 
kick is in our studio, which is a carpeted floor.  the pad I noticed 
the cut-off with is my hi hat, a tp60, but then i tested it with all 
the other tp pads & they all do the same thing.  the kick isn't 
touching the rack, which contains all drums except the snare.  i'm 
gonna dig out the ddrum redshot manual & just spend a night in there 
alone w/ that shizznit & hope I can sort it out.  If not, I'll have 
to use my pintech for recording, as I will definitely keep the 
acoustic for live use.

oh...as for the pad type, are you referring to a DTX III?  My DTX II 
only has "DT kick", "DT tom", etc.

as for the drumtech flatpads, they rock.  period.  they are probably 
the best-made edrum pad (non-woven) that exists.  built like a tank, 
but incredibly bouncy & a nice 10 inches in diameter, with no rim.  
they blow the yamaha pads away, but keep in mind, they mount with the 
old 7/8" "pipe-style" tom arms, so you might need some hardware to 
mount them.  I have 2 for my main toms currently, & have replaced the 
snare one w/ the acoustic.  I'll probably replace another of the 
tp60's w/ my third drumtech.

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "emf" <liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "tfkienle" <tfkienle@y...> wrote:
> > I have a DTXpress II module which I've been playing with a kit 
> > consisting of mostly TP60 pads, a pintech inverted kick trigger, 
& 
> > drumtech snare.  I've also worked with TP80s pads & drumtech 
toms, 
> as 
> > well as an S&S stealth trigger inverted kick & the yamaha DTX 
> cymbal 
> > pads.  I'm currently developing a hybrid kit using an acoustic 
> kick, 
> > acoustic snare, rototom & cymbal.  I bought the ddrum redshot 
> > triggers for the kick & snare.  I cannot for the life of me get 
the 
> > kick trigger settings to work right.  the weird thing is that by 
> > itself, the kick trigger works fine, but when I hit ANY OTHER PAD 
> > from the list above, the kick drops out.  No other drum does 
this.  
> > anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Toby,
> 
> If the kick input has a high rejection or specific rejection 
> associated with it, it might not fire when other pads are hit. You 
> may have to experiment a bit. Keep all rejection-related numbers 
only 
> as high as necessary to prevent cross triggers. You might also have 
> to adjust gain and min. velocity down and up, respectively, on the 
> kick input. An acoustic snare on a separate stand shouldn't be 
> interfering with the kick, except if you're on a riser and your 
snare 
> hits are making everything tremble. Which of your components are on 
a 
> rack or other common support system that can transmit vibrations? 
Are 
> you using DT10/20 as the kick's pad type? 
> 
> On another note, I love Drum Tech equipment. I use the Kick Pad; 
it's 
> the only nonwoven head that I have. But I've always been interested 
> in the Flat Pad, but I've never managed to get my hands on one. Can 
> you tell me how it triggers and feels in comparison with the Yamaha 
> pads that you have?
> 
> Ed