Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi Bob,

Well, we can't have you going crazy, even if we may have to work on 
this one for a while. I don't recall having that problem when I had 
the kit, but maybe you're onto something. Let's try to clarify the 
background first. It's the rare piezo pad that doesn't have 
something of a sweet spot that you have to control, or learn to hit. 
I assume that the phenomenon occurs with whatever snare voice you 
choose. What is your gain setting for the snare? When the change in 
tonality occurs, do you also lose volume? How are hard a hit are you 
talking about? 

An easy answer is that with electronic drums, there is a law of 
diminishing returns for power. Just watch the gain meter in the 
trigger menu, and you'll see that once gain is set at a comfortable 
level, you can reach a force of 99 well before your elbow starts to 
quiver and your fingers bleed. The other part of the easy answer is 
that the harder you hit an 8" pad, the less likely you are to hit it 
exactly where you wanted. Many people have that experience with the 
cymbals: Trying to hit them hard doesn't really pay off in sound, 
and it increases the chances that you will hit one of those spots 
that either doesn't make any noise, or in the case of a stereo 
cymbal, doesn't make the noise that you intended. 

Here's a guess: Since the DTXII's piezo is surrounded by FSRs on the 
rim designed to fire the piezo with a different voice when they are 
hit, a stray hit may activate the rim switch and give you a sound 
that you didn't expect at all. You could also just be missing the 
sweet spot and hitting the pad awkwardly. Obviously, this may not be 
what's happening in your case, but if we can eliminate the obvious, 
we'll be able to narrow it down further.

Ed



--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, <bobcastro@n...> wrote:
> Clear DayJust bought the dtxpress II.....and Having trouble with 
the snare response......There is a "Sweet Spot" slightly off  center 
to the pad that sounds great......however,   when  I hit that spot 
hard......the sound loses it's texture and sounds completely 
different like a hollow weak snare.
> 
> How can I adjust the settings to have the quality of the sound 
remain the same when I hit the pad Hard or Soft ?
> 
> Also..........can the "Sweet Spot" be expanded to encompass a 
larger area of the pad ?

> 
> Other than that........the kit is sweet !
> 
> Please help...........going crazy !

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 08:01:43 -0500, you wrote:

>Clear DayJust bought the dtxpress II.....and Having trouble with the snare response......There is a "Sweet Spot" slightly off  center to the pad that sounds great......however,   when  I hit that spot hard......the sound loses it's texture and sounds completely different like a hollow weak snare.
>
>How can I adjust the settings to have the quality of the sound remain the same when I hit the pad Hard or Soft ?
>
>Also..........can the "Sweet Spot" be expanded to encompass a larger area of the pad ?
>
>Other than that........the kit is sweet !
>
>Please help...........going crazy !
>

Check to make sure you don't have the X fade set wrong.  X fade can
allow you to have a more realistic sounding snare by having the
trigger produce one sound if it's hit lightly, and a different sound
if it's hit harder.  Depending on the setting of X fade, the blend of
the two is different.  You must have two voices running on the snare
for this to work and X fade must be turned on.



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Jim