Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Subject: [DTXpress] New User - Headphone Levels


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>Hi
>
>Recently aquired a DTXpress kit second hand. I already part-own an
>acoustic kit, and I am planning to use the electric kit to enable me
>to (a) continue practice when the other guy has the acoustic kit and
>(b) practice late at night without annoying the neighbours.
>
>At the moment, I have been using the kit exclusively with headphones,
>and the first thing I noticed was that I need to turn the kit up to
>full volume before I get anything like a reasonable level in the
>phones.
>
>Am I missing an extra control somewhere, or is the headphone level
>really that low? (I've only been playing drums for a month, so my
>hearing hasn't gone yet!). It seems a shame that I am going to have
>to put an amp onto the kit, considering I only want to use headphones.
>
>Chris
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Subject: Re: [DTXpress] New User - Headphone Levels


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>HI Richard
>
>DTXpress@egroups.com (Richard C. MacDonald) wrote in
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>>If you want the gory details on headphone volume, go through the
>>archives of the list. It's been a popular subject.
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>Ah. At the time, I had simply subscribed to the list - I didn't realise
>the archive was available. Now found, thanks to you, and skipped through.
>
>Seems to me that the "headphones level" in my subject was superfluous.
>All you needed to know was that I was a new user, and you could predict
>what topic I would raise first <g>
>
>>1) Make sure the overall kit volume is up to 127 (manual page 47)
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>Had found this already, but thanks.
>
>>2) Get some quality, enclosed headphones. I bought some
>>Sennheiser HD200's for under $100 and it changed everything. Plenty
>>loud. You'll use 'em on your home and portable stereos as well.
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>Sure. My current headphones are enclosed, as I prefer that type, but are
>not anything special - Technics consumer-level phones. Looks like I need
>to go shopping for something a bit better - having taken in the good
>advice upthread about impedence levels and such.
>
>OK, while I am here, a bit about myself. I am 41, and an amateur
>musician, living just north of Peterborough. Up to now, my main
>instruments have been 12-string acoustic guitar and vocals - I play with
>an existing band, Patchwork (2 x acoustic guitars, bass and keys/flute,
>no drums!), with gigs just a couple of times a year (we play my own
>compositions, which are largely science fiction oriented, so tend to play
>sf conventions). The frequency of these gigs suit some of the band, but I
>want to do more.
>
>Recently the bass player needed to put together a scratch 70/80's cover
>band, and needed a drummer - he suggested that as a guitarist I have
>always had a good sense of rhythm, and did I want to give it a try. It
>really appealed to me, as I am very much the front man in Patchwork, and
>I liked the idea of a more regular band that I could sit at the back and
>just enjoy playing.
>
>So, as I mentioned, we have bought an acoustic kit between us (as he also
>plays drums - he just prefers bass), and I have now just gone for a
>DTXpress, having picked up a good secondhand deal.
>
>We intend to use the DTXpress in the following ways:-
>
>a) Practice, both in absence of acoustic kit, and late at night.
>
>b) Recording. I have a small home studio with digital recording, and it
>will be a lot easier to record percussion from the DTXpress than miking
>up the acoustic kit. Not only that - I have the option of recording via
>MIDI, and fixing my fluffs, while keeping the 'real' feel. Whether this
>technique is just used for my draft demos, or for recordings we intend to
>release, remains to be seen (based on the results we get), but it'll at
>least make the first creative effort easier.
>
>c) To augment the live kit - i.e. hanging a couple of pads off the kit
>with electric tom sounds or whatever.
>
>Hope this hasn't been too boring - I often think it helps to know who you
>are talking to.
>
>Chris
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