Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "G" <kickflippin@h...> wrote:
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Jerry" <jeraldlhenderson@y...>
> wrote:
 
> If you can get your hands on an origional DTXtreme tom it would work 
> on inputs 1-8. (I'm pretty sure, please correct me if I'm 
wrong)      
> I wish they still made them, they rock.

G,

No. The original DTXtreme toms were basically mesh pads with mylar 
heads. They would play on inputs 1-8 on a DTXpress module but only as 
mono pads, not with rim switch capability. Many people actually 
replaced the mylar with mesh to make them quieter. Yamaha at one time 
intended to get into the woven-head market, even to the point of 
patenting their own perforated design, but Roland turned out to have 
too much of a stranglehold on it. 

Ed Morin at Drumbalaya seems to have had the last big batch of these 
pads a while back. I think that he got them directly from Yamaha 
(right, Ed?). A year or two ago, someone selling a DTXI1 kit or 
components would turn up on ebay and elsewhere, but the stream seems 
to have largely run dry.

Ed