Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Kevin Richard" <kevin_richard@b...> 
wrote:
> Now I'm really confused... just kidding ;)
> 
> My kick is definately hooked to input 1 and I didn't have ANYTHING 
> into 9/10 but I was getting the cowbell sound and the voice was 
also 
> changing to the KickR (obviously R for rim) on the display... I'm 
> just not sure how I did that... if I recall correctly (and I'm 
> probably not!) I was trying to use a REALLY cheap mic as a make 
shiv 
> trigger and was gonna test it on the kick input I'm not sure if 
that 
> was before or after I fixed a broken wire or both!  The mic has a 
> mono 1/8" jack and I was using a stereo 1/4" to stereo 1/8" adaptor 
> to make the connection... as I would slide it in and out it some 
how 
> trigged the cow bell a few times.  

That's much more interesting than what I thought was happening. 
Somehow your cheap mono mic on a stereo adapter was able to fool the 
module into thinking that a rim switch had been activated momentarily
--maybe the kind of quick incidental signals that are more apt to 
come from a mic than a typical trigger.

> My real question was what is that jack for... and I think you were 
> saying that if you used it on 9/10 it is a splitter for the 10 side 
> of that input.  and then you could hook up a "stereo" (right?) pad 
on 
> the 1 input to take advantage of a rim'd pad.  Right?

Right. Using the kick and a companion pad in 9/10 allows you to free 
input 1 for a stereo pad. The only drawback is that the factory kits, 
if you use them, will be expecting the kick on input 1.