Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi underneath,

There may be something going on with your cymbal, but then again 
there may not. E-drums and cymbals respond better to finesse than to 
power. If you're wailing away at the cymbal, you may be hitting it 
awkwardly, causing the FSR and piezo to react to each other oddly. 
After all, they aren't that far away from each other, and their 
interaction is a bit of a delicate dance. When you get up tomorrow 
(with indigestion from the pizza), try positioning the cymbal so 
that you can play it as a ride, away from the edges, without hitting 
the raised section unless you want to crash. If that doesn't work, 
something might be wrong. Also, it's easy to choke the cymbal 
unintentionally, whether riding or crashing, if your stick doesn't 
clear the raised rim fast enough after you hit it. 

Ed

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "underneathheaven <realvast@s...>" 
<realvast@s...> wrote:
> OK after further examination, the cymbal works fine when there is 
no 
> sound assigned to its edge.  I'll test it more tomorrow, I'm too 
> tired tonight to try anything more.  i need some chicken supreme 
> pizza!
> 
> 
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "underneathheaven 
<realvast@s...>" 
> <realvast@s...> wrote:
> > Crap crap crap!!  Here I am playing along with my favorite cds, 
> the 
> > music cranked up, and I'm banging away on my drums, life is 
> > good...then all of a sudden while I'm playing my dual zone ride 
> > cymbal, the PCY65S, it starts messing up!  When I hit the pad 
> > surface for the ride cymbal, sometimes it gives me the crash 
sound 
> I 
> > have programmed for the edge of the cymbal.  And when I hit the 
> edge 
> > of the cymbal it always gives me this wierd muted choked cymbal 
> > sound, like I'm choking the crash.  I already turned off the 
> module 
> > and reinserted the jacks to both the module and cymbal and still 
> its 
> > acting funny!  I do bang on the thing pretty hard and I guess 
its 
> > not as stable as banging on a tom pad but I'm not sure if I 
messed 
> > it up!  I have a one year warranty with the store i bought it 
from 
> > and they'll fix me up in the store, but this really sucks! :(  I 
> > never needed you guys more than now!  So please help!  Thank 
you!!