Hi Jon,
Welcome. I'd do a factory reset, as Brett suggested, first thing,
before you've invested much time in programming your own kits. Check
out the manual for the procedure, as well as for a crash course (pun
intended) on rejection, specific rejection, and self-rejection. The
manual isn't always terribly informative, but it's a start. Chances
are that you raised the gain on the crash, thereby making it more
susceptible to vibrations or crosstalk, transmitted along the rack.
The easy answer would be that you need to increase the crash's
rejection setting until the problem goes away, but that would be to
ignore the need to maintain a global balance between all of the
trigger settings. The higher a pad's gain, and the lower its minimum
velocity, the more likely it is to trigger falsely. Simply
increasing rejection settings would be asking for trouble; rejection
mutes a trigger for a micro-second when other events of certain
force occur. Minute as that interval is, it's best to have these
settings as low as possible. Reset and learn a little about the
trigger menu. Your crosstalk should automatically reduce for the
time being. As you continue to tinker, it may come back, but we'll
be able to fix it.
As for the bass drum, if you can find an 18" mesh head, you can
certainly put in on an acoustic kick and trigger it. You'd probably
be well advised to use a Yamaha trigger, or something that is known
to be its equivalent. The ddrum triggers have proven to be
problematical with the module. If what you got with your kit was the
old KP60 kick tower, your quick disenchantment with it is
understandable. The new KP65, however, will take a double pedal, as
will certain models from Pintech, Roland, Drumtech, etc, which
respond much like acoustics. Plus, any of them would be far less
ungainly than a full sized bass drum. We can be more specific with
recommendations if you want them. Talk to you later.
Ed
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<fannybass@y...> wrote:
> Hello all. I just bought a DTXpress on Ebay. Any ideas where I
can
> get a manual? I have the basics pretty much figured out, but I
know
> I'm missing stuff.
>
> Also, by messing with the settings I somehow made the crash so
> sensitive it crashes whenever I hit the other pads, does this
sound
> possible?
>
> Finally, can I put a mesh head on an 18" bass drum and trigger it?
I
> don't really like the Yamaha bass pad, and think the 18" would
look
> cool (also I want to use a double pedal).
>
> I'm new to the edrums world and have been hacking through the
> previous posts but thought you all could give me some insight to
my
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> most immediate concerns.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
