I'll take a brief shot at all of them off the top of my head, and
other people can add more detail or correct me. My answers follow
your questions:
> 1. How far do you push the drums onto the metal posts. I have
about 1
> inch showing becuase it was so hard to push the drums onto the
> mounting post. Should I push harder?
The drums can stick because the posts are bevilled (if that's the
term). Turn the drum gently on the post until you can push it all
the way down. If you can't get it to move, coat the post with a
little WD40. Height is adjustable, but if you don't go all the way
down, one day the drum might fall unexpectedly and wake you up from
your blissed-out stupor.
> 2. The dual zone cymbal has a sensitivity screw on the bottom. I
used
> a perfect sized screwdrive but I still had to push kinda hard to
get
> it to turn. Has anyone here messed with it? How hard to you have
to
> push to break it??? The said to be carful in the manual but I
didnt
> read that before hand. And what actually does it do? I was having
> problems with the crash overpowering the rest of the kit. Should I
> have just turned down the volume of the cymbal instead of the
screw?
> I take it the screw is for velocity sensitivity right?
The screw is simply a manual adjustment for sensitivity that really
isn't all that important; yamaha has to justify the increased cost
of the stepped up model somehow, doesn't it? If I recall, the screw
doesn't have much play. The safest bet is to position it halfway and
do all your volume adjustments in the voice and trigger menus. In no
time, you'll forget that it's even there.
> 3. I am having the same problem others are having with the hi-hat,
> making the snare drum louder or softer or just not triggering at
all. Is there an easy link to the fix? I can search thru these posts
if thats the easiest way.
I'm not quite sure what the problem is. If earlier posts deal with
it, maybe someone will know how to respond. We could be getting into
the areas of crosstalk (rejection in yamaha parlance), gain, and
minimum velocity--all on the trigger menu. Whatever is going on, I'm
sure that with a little more fine tuning in the question, as well as
in the module, you'll lick it.
> 4. Can I make my Hi-Hat louder? I can barely hear it! I went into
the settings and found that the hi-hat volume was set at 127 the
higest you could go (maybe I was in the wrong spot). Am I going to
have to turn down the rest of my system to make the hi-hat louder?
Or is this a result of that known problem?
Again, I'm not familiar with the known problem. Is this happening on
all the preset kits and any user kits that you've programmed? Make
sure. Are you listening through headphones or an amp? The hh pad is
plugged into trigger 8. Check the volume in the voice menu and the
gain setting in the trigger menu. Try increasing the numbers to see
if that helps. You won't have to turn down the rest of the inputs to
balance them with the hh. There is a fix for this. More information
is necessary, though.
>
> 5. How can I adjust the volume of the toms and the cymbals?
The toms are earmarked for inputs 3, 4, and 5, and the cymbals for 6
and 7. Adjust the individual volume parameters in the corresponding
voice and trigger sections. You should also know that the utility
menu has a "live" setting under UT SYSTEM that allows you to use the
accomp volume and click volume knobs to adjust the volume of pads
even further. Check it out in the manual.
> 6. What sensitivity setting do you all use? CUSTOM? Becuase Meduim
> seems to work best for me so far. With dynamic setting it picks up
> almost no ghost notes, and I have to hit the drums too hard to get
> maximum trigger. With easy, I have the ghost notes and sensitivity
> but everything sounds the same. Cant I have the sensitivity of
Easy
> with the expression of medium? My friends practice pad is a piece
of
> crap, and you can paradiddle/ghost note all day on it. Either
these
> pads are really cheap, or I dont have them set up right. Im not
> looking for perfection or anything either.
I'd stay with medium for the time being. When you've worked with the
trigger menu for a while, especially the gain and min. vel.
parameters, you should start to notice what you have to do to get
what you want. The DTXPU will pick up ghosts and buzzes, but there's
no way to eliminate entirely the learning curve. Get the feel of how
pads and module interact, and then you can adjust to personal
playing style and taste. It's going to get more complicated before
it gets easier. Somewhere along the way, the pads are going to start
reacting to hits on each other, making your adjustments even finer.
Also, remember that these are gum rubber pads; set up correctly,
they will perform. But they are not acoustic drums. They have their
own characteristics and foibles. You won't reach their limitations
for a while, if ever. Some veteran electronic drummers still swear
by them.
> 7. How do I adjust Hi-hat foot pedal so I dont have to push
> unnessasarily hard, to get it to full closed position?
That you do by setting the hi hat offset, found in the Utilities
menu. The lower the number, the easier the hats are to close.
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> Whew! Please number your answers so I know what questions you are
> answering. And THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
