Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi Keith, so far your diagnosis and solution to my problem sounds the
best, thus far.  That's probably exactly what it is, is a faulty rim
switch.  What is happening is, when it is acting up, when you hit the
edge, unlike what it did a few days ago and when I first got it, it is
immediately choking without continuing to make it's nice continued
shhhhhhhh sound to finish out the crash.  At the same time, however,
when you hit the cymbal on the rim and not the edge it will, most of the
time, make the continuing crash sound like it is suppose to.  In other
words, most of the time, if I want the cymbal to make the crash sound
like it is suppose to in the first place by hitting it on the edge, like
it was to begin with, then I always have to remember to hit it on the
rim and not the edge or it will sound really stupid and not at all like
a crash cymbal.   
 
The part about the gong is, when I went to a drum kit which had that
cymbal as the gong, when I hit it, it would just make a weird short cut
off computer synthesized noise, hard to explain.  By hitting it on the
rim in that scenario, it didn't make any difference.  I'm not sure what
is going on, however, I agree with you, I think I have a faulty rim
switch or if there is such a thing, a faulty edge switch on this
particular cymbal.  
 
If that is the case then I need to go about getting it replaced somehow
through the place I purchased it, I guess.  I'm not really sure.  
 
Any way, thanks for your help and suggestions.  I really do appreciate
it very much.  I do believe that is what it is, is a faulty switch in
the cymbal.  
 
Thanks,
Glen
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith [mailto:keith@...] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:14 AM
To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [DTXpress] Re: DTXPRESS III Wedge Stereo Cymbal Problem
 
Glen,

Unplug the cable out of the back of the PCY65S and plug it into the
snare and try that.  It will eliminate the cable and module as the
problem.  You are then probably left with a faulty PCY65S (assuming
the plug was plugged in fully).  However, I don't understand the sound
you are describing.  A faulty rim switch would just give the same
sound from both the edge and the rim.  Can you still choke the cymbal?
Maybe the (faulty) rim switch is making and breaking so you are
getting choking of the rim sound?

Keith.




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