Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi Jon,

Welcome. I'd do a factory reset, as Brett suggested, first thing, 
before you've invested much time in programming your own kits. Check 
out the manual for the procedure, as well as for a crash course (pun 
intended) on rejection, specific rejection, and self-rejection. The 
manual isn't always terribly informative, but it's a start. Chances 
are that you raised the gain on the crash, thereby making it more 
susceptible to vibrations or crosstalk, transmitted along the rack. 
The easy answer would be that you need to increase the crash's 
rejection setting until the problem goes away, but that would be to 
ignore the need to maintain a global balance between all of the 
trigger settings. The higher a pad's gain, and the lower its minimum 
velocity, the more likely it is to trigger falsely. Simply 
increasing rejection settings would be asking for trouble; rejection 
mutes a trigger for a micro-second when other events of certain 
force occur. Minute as that interval is, it's best to have these 
settings as low as possible. Reset and learn a little about the 
trigger menu. Your crosstalk should automatically reduce for the 
time being. As you continue to tinker, it may come back, but we'll 
be able to fix it.

As for the bass drum, if you can find an 18" mesh head, you can 
certainly put in on an acoustic kick and trigger it. You'd probably 
be well advised to use a Yamaha trigger, or something that is known 
to be its equivalent. The ddrum triggers have proven to be 
problematical with the module. If what you got with your kit was the 
old KP60 kick tower, your quick disenchantment with it is 
understandable. The new KP65, however, will take a double pedal, as 
will certain models from Pintech, Roland, Drumtech, etc, which 
respond much like acoustics. Plus, any of them would be far less 
ungainly than a full sized bass drum. We can be more specific with 
recommendations if you want them.  Talk to you later.

Ed

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<fannybass@y...> wrote:
> Hello all.  I just bought a DTXpress on Ebay.  Any ideas where I 
can 
> get a manual?  I have the basics pretty much figured out, but I 
know 
> I'm missing stuff.
> 
> Also, by messing with the settings I somehow made the crash so 
> sensitive it crashes whenever I hit the other pads, does this 
sound 
> possible?
> 
> Finally, can I put a mesh head on an 18" bass drum and trigger it? 
I 
> don't really like the Yamaha bass pad, and think the 18" would 
look 
> cool (also I want to use a double pedal).
> 
> I'm new to the edrums world and have been hacking through the 
> previous posts but thought you all could give me some insight to 
my 
> most immediate concerns.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jon