Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "rtmt91drummer" <rtmt91drummer@y...> 
wrote:
> I finally got the pintech pads set up on the rack (the sprit rack 
is 
> not very good for allowing positioning of drums... anyway)The drum 
> settings I think I have tweaked enough to work (time will tell) but 
I 
> will difenatlly have to patch in a poteniometer for the snare. It 
is 
> just to hot. I have the dip switches on the rear flipped up. Up 
seems 
> to hot....but down seems not enough, I have the gain for that pad 
set 
> at zero.   

I think that the pot would be a better idea than trying to find a way 
to tinker with the piezo and muffle inside the drum. People have 
reported that taking the signal down a peg that way improves dynamic 
range immensely. Brian said something about possibly adding a 
sensitivity control to the pads themselves somewhere down the road. 
If he does, maybe you can get a retrofit at the factory.


> I still need to get the hihat pedal to work. Someone suggested that 
I need to change the polarity. Can I do this with out 
> buying an adapter?  I tried using a cable and swithed the tip and 
> sleeve connections. Is that what needs to be done? Because it 
didn't 
> work. 

That was me, but I think that the incompatibility might be more 
fundamental (your way would probably reverse open and closed on a 
properly working hat), though I'm sure that an adapter is available 
to fix it. What I don't know is how exactly the Pintech pedal is 
wired. If it were like a Roland FD-7, I've heard that the Drumbalaya 
adapter or a Radio Shack Adapter (less than $5.00), which changes 
stereo to mono/mono to stereo (I think it was feefer who made this 
discovery at vdrums some time ago) would work, or even the Drum Tech 
Hat Adapter, if it's still out there. But rather than endlessly 
speculate, you might just call Pintech. I have no doubt that they'd 
answer your question once and for all. The number is 864-242-2150.

Ed