Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I just received my DTXpress for a Christmas present. I often play the 
kit along with some of my favorite CDs, however, I'm only getting the 
music in one ear and the kit in the other ear. Is there a way to get 
the drums and music in both ears?

I'd apprectiate any help I can get.

Thanks

John

Hi John,

That's weird. You should be getting stereo from both sources as a 
matter of course. I'll sssume first that you're plugging your CD 
player into the front aux input and the headphones into the output 
underneath it. If your CD player is of the walkman variety, you 
should be using a single cable with a 1/8" stereo jack (two rings 
around it) on both ends. If you're running a mono feed (one ring on 
the jacks) between the two units, you're only going to get one side 
of the stereo equation from the CD player out of the headphones. If 
the CD player isn't of the walkman type, or if you're coming from a 
receiver or amp, then you'd have to run two independent cables with 
mono RCA jacks into a "Y" adapter with a single 1/8" stereo 
connector to the DTXPU's aux input to get music in both ears. 

The fact that the kit is audible only through one ear also seems to 
indicate that you have a mono instead of a stereo connection 
somehwere along the headphone line. Maybe the wires to one of the 
earpieces is disconnected, or, more likely, if you're using a 1/4" 
adaptor on your headphone jack, it's mono instead of stereo. In 
either case, it would be a fortunate coincidence that each ear is 
getting a different feed. It could very well have worked out that 
both mono feeds would have come through one side of the headphones. 
I'm banking on the fact that your adaptors or connectors aren't 
stereo. 

What I'm not assuming is that you're running CD player and module 
through an external mixer, that you're running your headphones out 
of the two outputs on the back of the module, or that by some 
strange quirk of fate, your kits are all panned to one side. In 
those cases, the troubleshooting might be different.

Ed

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Larry Mullet Jr. <myhihat@h...>" 
<myhihat@h...> wrote:
> I just received my DTXpress for a Christmas present. I often play 
the 
> kit along with some of my favorite CDs, however, I'm only getting 
the 
> music in one ear and the kit in the other ear. Is there a way to 
get 

> the drums and music in both ears?
> 
> I'd apprectiate any help I can get.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John

Thanks ED,

Thanks for the help.
Have a great day.

John


--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus 
<liberatusvirus@y...>" <liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> That's weird. You should be getting stereo from both sources as a 
> matter of course. I'll sssume first that you're plugging your CD 
> player into the front aux input and the headphones into the output 
> underneath it. If your CD player is of the walkman variety, you 
> should be using a single cable with a 1/8" stereo jack (two rings 
> around it) on both ends. If you're running a mono feed (one ring on 
> the jacks) between the two units, you're only going to get one side 
> of the stereo equation from the CD player out of the headphones. If 
> the CD player isn't of the walkman type, or if you're coming from a 
> receiver or amp, then you'd have to run two independent cables with 
> mono RCA jacks into a "Y" adapter with a single 1/8" stereo 
> connector to the DTXPU's aux input to get music in both ears. 
> 
> The fact that the kit is audible only through one ear also seems to 
> indicate that you have a mono instead of a stereo connection 
> somehwere along the headphone line. Maybe the wires to one of the 
> earpieces is disconnected, or, more likely, if you're using a 1/4" 
> adaptor on your headphone jack, it's mono instead of stereo. In 
> either case, it would be a fortunate coincidence that each ear is 
> getting a different feed. It could very well have worked out that 
> both mono feeds would have come through one side of the headphones. 
> I'm banking on the fact that your adaptors or connectors aren't 
> stereo. 
> 
> What I'm not assuming is that you're running CD player and module 
> through an external mixer, that you're running your headphones out 
> of the two outputs on the back of the module, or that by some 
> strange quirk of fate, your kits are all panned to one side. In 
> those cases, the troubleshooting might be different.
> 
> Ed
> 
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Larry Mullet Jr. <myhihat@h...>" 
> <myhihat@h...> wrote:
> > I just received my DTXpress for a Christmas present. I often play 
> the 
> > kit along with some of my favorite CDs, however, I'm only getting 
> the 
> > music in one ear and the kit in the other ear. Is there a way to 
> get 
> > the drums and music in both ears?
> > 
> > I'd apprectiate any help I can get.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > John