Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

I'm in the market for an amp to play the DTxpress through. Is there 
anything out there that will do the job for less than $100? A dealer 
wants to sell me a small Peavey bass amp for About $90. I think he 
said it was 15 watts. Will I get distortion at a moderate volume?

Ken

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "boomer535" <boomer17@a...> wrote:
> I'm in the market for an amp to play the DTxpress through. Is there 
> anything out there that will do the job for less than $100? A 
dealer 
> wants to sell me a small Peavey bass amp for About $90. I think he 
> said it was 15 watts. Will I get distortion at a moderate volume?

Ken,

Tempting as it may be to have an amp, don't get the 15 watt Peavey 
for $90. Nothing that I can imagine for $100 is going to do anything 
remotely like justice to how an e-drum kit can sound when properly 
amplified. If you're going to get an amp at all in the days ahead, 
make it a keyboard amp, not a bass or guitar amp, which will not be 
able to handle the output of an e-kit. For now, get yourself a good 
pair of studio headphones (high sensitivity, low impedance--generally 
about $80 street) and enjoy the ride, because it won't get any better 
than that with an amp unless you spend hundreds more (for at least 
150 watts but preferably more, a 12 to 15" woofer [or powered sub], a 
competent tweeter, and wide dynamic range). Someone with an ultra 
high-end home stereo capable of taking serious punishment can get 
away with connecting an e-kit to it on a lark, but ordinary home 
audio need not apply.

Ed

Save up your money and get a decent amp. Like Liberatus pointed out, the way 
to go is a keyboard amp. What happens when you play a drumset through an amp 
is each sound is peaked (short duration) which needs a lot of power. This is 
very hard on an amp. You need to have lot of power or it can sound like you have 
a blown speaker. Especially with the kick drum sound.  I have a Roland 
KC-500. It is 150 watts with a 15" speaker and horn. I consider that a minimum. I 
had a 100 watt Acoustic Guitar Amp with a 12" speaker and that was terrible. It 
sound OK except when you heard the Kick Drum.  I also used for a while a 4X10 
cabinet with a 300 watt Bass Amplifier. That rocked!  But I sold it cause I 
needed the cash. But don't skimp. You will regret it.

Claudio Ortiz