Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, Don <contract731@c...> wrote:

Hello, Don,

Welcome to the club.

> 1. Be able to use both zones on the Pintech Snare for a separate 
snare 
> and rim sound. How do I add to the lineup? Do I need a "Y" cable? 
What 
> do you suggest as far as plugging in what input(s) and setting?

You could plug your kick pad into 9/10 and the Pintech rim into the 
kick pad (serving as the conduit for 10), thereby obviating the 
splitter and leaving input 1 for a cymbal with two sounds and either 
input 6 or 7 for your demoted tri-sound snare. To further confuse 
you, you could also run the Pintech's head into the factory snare 
input (2) and the rim into one-half of input 9/10. With that 
configuration, you'd need a TRS "Y" cable or splitter(two monos leads 
to a stereo jack). You could also plug Pintech head and rim into 9/10 
with a single stereo cable. You'd thereby open up input 2 for another 
three-trigger pad, but you'd screw up the expected snare on the 
factory kits.  
 
> 2. Use the 3 Zone Yamaha as a ride with the edge set as the bell 
sound.
> How do I add to the lineup? Do I need a "Y" cable? What do you 
suggest 
> as far as plugging in what input(s) and setting?

You can convert the three-trigger snare as a three-trigger ride, 
through inputs 2, 6,  or 7 (right, gang?), but the feel might not 
satisfy you for long; the new round cymbals are a better bet, if you 
can afford one. Anyway, "Y" cables cannot extract any information 
from these switch-type pads for use in a second (or third) input. 
They provide more than a single sound only via the single inputs for 
which they were designed (that is, all but 9/10, where they will 
provide one sound no matter what you do).
 
> 3. I would like to use the two cymbal pads that came with just as 
> crashes, I assume I can daisy chain them and with all the other 
> requirements they will just be available to trigger the same sound?

As I said, I'd move your single-sound cymbal to input 1 to create 
room for the demoted snare in 6 or 7, thus leaving your two-sound 
cymbal in the other one. Unless my logistics are faulty, you 
shouldn't have any components sharing the same input/sound at this 
point. Getting the kick pad to relieve some of the pressure would 
seem to be the way to go. If not, the option of using input 9 for the 
rim is always open, although it requires a couple of splitters, one 
for the Pintech and one for input 9/10, if all pads are to be 
implemented. One of the DTXpress mavens will correct me if I'm wrong. 

> Sorry if I am being lazy by asking and not experimenting. I had a 
few 
> Ian Paice :) flashbacks this morning and am a little slow, then my 
> daughter started to fuss. Thank you all sincerely in advance.

By the way, we think of you here as "the kid." You ain't old by our 
standards, just your daughter's.

Cheers,
Ed