Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Players

I got a DTXpress II for Xmas. What a wonderful invention! People who 
did not play thirty years ago have no idea how we suffered with the 
problem of noise. (Cue violins).

I've taped a piece of thin rubber to the wooden beater of my 
Speedking in the hope of reducing wear on the kick pad rubber.

But is there an easy way to enable cymbal bell shots please? I 
thought I saw a while back an illustration somewhere of a tiny cymbal 
pad that mounted on top of one of the half-round cymbal pads but 
maybe I dreamed it. Seems rather an odd omission the lack of cymbal 
bell when it's so commonly used. I noticed the new three zone cymbal 
pad soon being issued but what do people do at present?

Hope to contribute something before long instead of just asking.

Thanks

Mike

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wrote:
> Players
> 
> I got a DTXpress II for Xmas. What a wonderful invention! People 
who 
> did not play thirty years ago have no idea how we suffered with the 
> problem of noise. (Cue violins).
> 
> I've taped a piece of thin rubber to the wooden beater of my 
> Speedking in the hope of reducing wear on the kick pad rubber.
> 
> But is there an easy way to enable cymbal bell shots please? I 
> thought I saw a while back an illustration somewhere of a tiny 
cymbal 
> pad that mounted on top of one of the half-round cymbal pads but 
> maybe I dreamed it. Seems rather an odd omission the lack of cymbal 
> bell when it's so commonly used. I noticed the new three zone 
cymbal 
> pad soon being issued but what do people do at present?

Hi Mike,

Welcome to the group. The Yamaha bell attachment is called a PCY10. 
It can lie atop one of your cymbals or go on its own stand. It takes 
a separate input, normally 9 or 10, since it's not a stereo 
component. Yamaha's new three-sound cymbal PCY150 should be making 
its first appearance in a little more than a month. What people often 
do now for a bell, if they use a stereo cymbal from Yamaha, Pintech, 
or Roland, is to program it into the edge, though it's an odd place 
to be hitting a cymbal for a bell sound. An ingenious scheme that 
DTXpressI owners used was to velocity-crossfade a bell sound onto a 
mono cymbal. Because the old PCY80 had a tendency to increase 
velocity at the top of the cymbal near the wingnut, all they had to 
do was strike the cymbal (without any increase in velocity) near the 
top to get the bell--a nice coincidence. 

The other option is to use a true dual-zone cymbal (as opposed to 
stereo--see the archives), which normally requires a separate input 
for the bow and for the bell. Yamaha doesn't make such an animal, but 
other companies do. 

Ed

Mike, 

Yamaha makes a PCY10 bell pad, you can see them in the photo section on my
kit. They are mono peizo pads that work great on trigger input 9/10.

OldGuyDrummer

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> Players
> 
> I got a DTXpress II for Xmas. What a wonderful invention! People who 
> did not play thirty years ago have no idea how we suffered with the 
> problem of noise. (Cue violins).
> 
> I've taped a piece of thin rubber to the wooden beater of my 
> Speedking in the hope of reducing wear on the kick pad rubber.
> 
> But is there an easy way to enable cymbal bell shots please? I 
> thought I saw a while back an illustration somewhere of a tiny cymbal 
> pad that mounted on top of one of the half-round cymbal pads but 
> maybe I dreamed it. Seems rather an odd omission the lack of cymbal 
> bell when it's so commonly used. I noticed the new three zone cymbal 
> pad soon being issued but what do people do at present?
> 
> Hope to contribute something before long instead of just asking.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Mike
> 
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Many thanks that answers my query.

Mike


--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, rdamon@m... wrote:
> Mike, 
> 
> Yamaha makes a PCY10 bell pad, you can see them in the photo 
section on my
> kit. They are mono peizo pads that work great on trigger input 9/10.
> 
> OldGuyDrummer
> 
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> > From:	mikeincamden [SMTP:mikeincamden@y...]
> > Sent:	Tuesday, January 20, 2004 8:36 AM
> > To:	DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject:	[DTXpress] Cymbal bell shots
> > 
> > Players
> > 
> > I got a DTXpress II for Xmas. What a wonderful invention! People 
who 
> > did not play thirty years ago have no idea how we suffered with 
the 
> > problem of noise. (Cue violins).
> > 
> > I've taped a piece of thin rubber to the wooden beater of my 
> > Speedking in the hope of reducing wear on the kick pad rubber.
> > 
> > But is there an easy way to enable cymbal bell shots please? I 
> > thought I saw a while back an illustration somewhere of a tiny 
cymbal 
> > pad that mounted on top of one of the half-round cymbal pads but 
> > maybe I dreamed it. Seems rather an odd omission the lack of 
cymbal 
> > bell when it's so commonly used. I noticed the new three zone 
cymbal 
> > pad soon being issued but what do people do at present?
> > 
> > Hope to contribute something before long instead of just asking.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> > 
> > 
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