Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Ed, your idea is very reasonable, specially if I told you that there is no 
dropouts at all in Buzz-roll if it was too close to the trigger.


>From: "emf" <liberatusvirus@...>
>Reply-To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
>To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [DTXpress] Re: DTXtremeIIS & Mesh Heads.
>Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:57:04 -0000
>
>--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "bongokonzelmann" <carsten@h...>
>wrote:
> > Probably it only touches a side aspect but nevertheless: Before I
> > bought my DTXPIII I was a DTXtremeI user and I remember my problem
> > with loudness on the standard heads that go with the original setup.
> > So I went to a local dealer and asked for meshheads and he strongly
> > recommended not to go for any other than T-Drum heads which actually
> > are the ones that are distributed by Ddrum in Europe (I therefore
> > assume that they are mounted on Ddrum shells).
> >
> > Although I realise that your hardware (shells, pads) isn\ufffdt Ddrum or
> > DTXtreme, still it is about Ddrum triggers. How do you view the
> > influence a certain meshhead brand could have? - If you are
>interested
> > to have a look at T-Drums\ufffd website the link is www.triggerhead.com.
>
>I'd like to think a little about what Abdulmalek has observed--that
>dropouts are more likely to occur nearer to the trigger than away
>from it. I'm familiar with the DTXPU's tendency to multiple triggers
>with certain pads at certain settings. As for what happens with the
>DT10/20 setting and mesh heads, I'm tempted to say that the DTXPU
>module is too slow to read strong signals that follow each other
>closely, but at a distance, when the signal envelope is shorter, it
>doesn't hang up as much. But I'm not sure about that theory.
>
>As for mesh heads, I think that ddrum had to license the ones on its
>pads from triggerhead, who had an agreement with Roland. What impacts
>triggering with mesh heads is not so much the brand (which varies
>mainly by thickness, if at all, for the purposes of this issue) but
>where the piezo is located beneath it, the nature of the foam that
>intervenes, and how tightly the head is tuned. I wouldn' be surprised
>if Bongo's problem was either heads that were tight enough or shell
>interiors that tended to muffle the piezo. Lots of people with the
>first DTXT simply pulled swapped the mylar heads for Roland, Pintech
>meshes, rearranged the foam layers as necessary, and never looked
>back.
>
>Ed
>

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