Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "emf" <liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Keith" <keith@k...> wrote:
> > If the rim switch was shot, wouldn't you still get a sound, but 
the
> > sound of the centre rather than the rim?  Maybe that is what you 
are
> > getting, but if you are getting a feable rim sound, that suggests
> > something to do with rim settings.  You could try a standard 
trigger
> > setting and a standard drum kit to see if it works?
> 
> Keith,
> 
> What you say makes sense, except that one of the anomalies of these 
> so-called "stereo" pads is, or at least used to be, that sometimes 
> hitting in the vicinity of the rim switch didn't always result in a 
> sound--either that of the head or of the rim. From what I recall, 
the 
> lapse wasn't just a function of the trigger settings. I could be 
> wrong. Any ideas, everyone?
> 
> Ed

Hi....perhaps I should clarify, the rim hits were, for the most 
part,always consistent.I have used the kit for about a year,and have 
played several gigs, as well as a lot of recording time. It seems 
that if I play a busy passage, the center,which I have set up to be a 
different,similar voice ,it will react at most times ok. But if I do 
the same on the rim,such as a quick burst of single hits, it will 
almost always only respond to half(or less) of the contact.I will 
tell you that I am quite certain that the center voice is not 
falsing, and that I do strike it consistently and solidly. I thought 
others may have had problems with the dual zone snare pad, or could 
advise some settings/adjustments I could experiment with....The kits 
that I use are all set up from scratch from voices , so I can cover 8-
10 different live sounding kits during a night's performance...I have 
not really spent alot of time with the preset kits, so I cannot 
answer wether they react the same way, but what little I have tried 
lately , they have ....thanks for any and all input...and hi to Ed, 
the mass dude helping! I'm just over the line from portsmouth nh