Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I just blogged here 
<http://www.johnallsopp.co.uk/blog200705.php#dtxpress>, I think I've 
reached (and discovered) the half life of a DTXpress III.

J

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, John Allsopp <john@...> wrote:
>
> I just blogged here 
> <http://www.johnallsopp.co.uk/blog200705.php#dtxpress>, I think I've 
> reached (and discovered) the half life of a DTXpress III.
> 
> J
>

Is this the same "non-heavy hitter" who broke some aluminium sticks on 
the DTXpress?!?

Keith.

Keith wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com <mailto:DTXpress%40yahoogroups.com>, 
> John Allsopp <john@...> wrote:
>  >
>  > I just blogged here
>  > <http://www.johnallsopp.co.uk/blog200705.php#dtxpress 
> <http://www.johnallsopp.co.uk/blog200705.php#dtxpress>>, I think I've
>  > reached (and discovered) the half life of a DTXpress III.
>  >
>  > J

> 
> Is this the same "non-heavy hitter" who broke some aluminium sticks on
> the DTXpress?!?
> 
> Keith.

:-) the very same.

I still maintain they were dodgy tho.

Or maybe the pads just have less 'give' / flexibility in them than a 
normal drumskin, and they weren't designed for it.

Ah, who knows. I don't feel like I hit with great force, anyway. But at 
the same time, I'm not gentle.

Regardless, the ride cymbal that died recently, well you hardly hit a 
ride cymbal with great force. And the hi hat pedal isn't worked hard 
either :-)

Incidentally, the chap in our local music shop claimed that the reason 
that I'd got through more than the usual number of bass drum beaters is 
that I'm using them on an electronic kit, and the electrics create a 
field which gradually turns the metal molecules, lining them up until 
the metal loses its usual properties and breaks. I didn't believe a 
word, and then I thought actually I've heard that before. Is that bunkum 
or right on?

J

I tend to think I go through more bass drum beaters simply because my KP-65
kick drum surface is much less forgiving than a typical bass drum skin. The
story the shop owner told sounds like bunk to me.

 

Steve P.

 

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Of John Allsopp
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 4:19 PM
To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [DTXpress] Re: The half life of a DTXpress III

 

Keith wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroup <mailto:DTXpress%40yahoogroups.com> s.com
<mailto:DTXpress%40yahoogroups.com>, 
> John Allsopp <john@...> wrote:
> >
> > I just blogged here
> > <http://www.johnalls
<http://www.johnallsopp.co.uk/blog200705.php#dtxpress>
opp.co.uk/blog200705.php#dtxpress 
> <http://www.johnalls
<http://www.johnallsopp.co.uk/blog200705.php#dtxpress>
opp.co.uk/blog200705.php#dtxpress>>, I think I've
> > reached (and discovered) the half life of a DTXpress III.
> >
> > J

> 
> Is this the same "non-heavy hitter" who broke some aluminium sticks on
> the DTXpress?!?
> 
> Keith.

:-) the very same.

I still maintain they were dodgy tho.

Or maybe the pads just have less 'give' / flexibility in them than a 
normal drumskin, and they weren't designed for it.

Ah, who knows. I don't feel like I hit with great force, anyway. But at 
the same time, I'm not gentle.

Regardless, the ride cymbal that died recently, well you hardly hit a 
ride cymbal with great force. And the hi hat pedal isn't worked hard 
either :-)

Incidentally, the chap in our local music shop claimed that the reason 
that I'd got through more than the usual number of bass drum beaters is 
that I'm using them on an electronic kit, and the electrics create a 
field which gradually turns the metal molecules, lining them up until 
the metal loses its usual properties and breaks. I didn't believe a 
word, and then I thought actually I've heard that before. Is that bunkum 
or right on?

J

Steve Palmer wrote:
> I tend to think I go through more bass drum beaters simply because my 
> KP-65 kick drum surface is much less forgiving than a typical bass drum 
> skin. The story the shop owner told sounds like bunk to me.

Me too. The fact that, in my dim memory I've heard it before, makes me 
think it's at the level of an urban myth.

J