Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I recieved a DTXpIIIsp on Friday, put it together on Saturday.  I seem
to recall glancing at the back panel to check for free inputs and 
finding none.
Time spent with it this weekend was preoccupied with the defective RHH130
hi-hat controller component, concern was assuaged this morning after calling
the Yamaha contact named in an earlier post to have it replaced.

This is my first edrum kit, save for building a Cabonga about 30 years 
ago, so
other listers may be better able to give competent opinions about it.  
I've done
no tweaking, so the cymbal sensitivities that seemed backwards from rim 
to bow
deserve some twiddling.

Pictures on the other hand...mebbe tonight!

Charlie

emf wrote:

>--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "jonobacon" <jonobacon@y...> wrote:
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>>Hi all,
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>>A few questions:
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>>- Any more update when the three zone cymbal shaped cymbals are out?
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>>- How many pads can I connect to a DTXpress III? I am ideally after
>>another cymbal pad (preferably one with a bell) and another tom. Is
>>this possible?
>>
>>- I am going to be playing really fast double kick laden death metal
>>on this kit - shoulsd this be fine and everything trigger ok for
>>really fast double bass playing?
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>Hi Jono,
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>Here's one set of answers. I haven't heard anything more about when 
>components from the new kits will go on sale individually. You might 
>shoot an email to Ed Morin at Drumbalaya; he might have more of an 
>idea by now. 
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>The DTXPIII, like its predecessors, has two extra mono inputs, 
>accessed through a single jack labeled 9/10. You can't use them in 
>any configuration to get both sounds from one of Yamaha's "stereo" 
>cymbals (or pads); only the main piezo of a stereo cymbal will fire. 
>But you can add a true dual-zone cymbal, with a bell (e.g., a Visu-
>lite), into input 9/10 with a stereo cable. Then, however, you 
>wouldn't have any room for another mono tom. A mono cymbal and tom 
>would work fine in 9/10. You also might be able to move a mono pad 
>from inputs 3, 4, or 5 to 9/10 so that you could add a new stereo 
>cymbal to the vacated input. Maybe somebody can confirm. 
>
>I don't want to get ahead of the game, but if Keith's magic box 
>proves to be viable, more opportunities to expand inputs are on the 
>way. Stay tuned.
>
>The DTXPU module should be able to handle the fast double kicks. 
>
>Ed
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