Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Jade,

I have seen the stuff you're talking about. DW makes an smaller bass 
shell they call a woofer, it goes in front of your existing bass and 
is supposed to enhance the sound. The only cymbal set ups I've seen 
that you describe..sabian puts out a line of Mike Portnoy cymbals 
called the max stax, they stack two cymbals on top of each other for 
a crunchy effect. Kind of a high end ribbon crasher. Of course you 
could do this with any brand cymbal, the stax are usually a crash 
with a smaller china on top.  I have no idea of the ride you're 
describing though...certainly sounds interesting...wouldn't the ride 
sound be completely muted? Hmmm.

Raven
 --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Jade" <jadiebooshkie@y...> wrote:
> Guys,
> Last night I saw the Dixie Chicks and they had Joan Osborne with 
> them as opening act...the Chicks were AWESOME by the way, don't let 
> anyone fool ya-they kick butt as musicians...DESPITE all the 
> contraversy!!  Anyway...here's what Joan Osborn's drummer had for 
> his acoustic set up (dw kit)...he had 2 cymbal mounted 
> TOGETHER...looked like he had an 18 inch Zildjian ride (hand 
> hammered), and UNDER it mounted UPSIDEDOWN (and no...it was NOT a 
hi-
> hat) was what looked like a 14 inch crash cymbal-he used this 
> particular set-up for his ride....then he had ANOTHER IDENTICAL set 
> up for his crash/ride...it looked like a 14 in or 16 inch normal 
> mounted cymbal with a 6 or maybe 8 inch SPLASH cymbal mounted 
UPSIDE 
> DOWN in the same fashion as a HH...THEN....it gets wilder...he had 
> what  I would say was a 24 inch bass drum and ATTACHED TO THAT 
> SITTING IN FRONT OF THE regular bass drum was a SKINNY(what looked 
> like a marching band bass drum)...there was NO pedal attached to 
the 
> skinny bass drum, it just sat there and you could see it was 
> functional coz you could see it absorbing his kicks-I couldn't tell 
> if it had any head on the side mounted up to the 24 inch bass, only 
> the regular 24 inch bass had a kick pedal.....the sound was what I 
> would call deep, and yes...you could use the word LAYERED on all of 
> these 3 wierd mountings....my question is this....Have any of you 
> guys seen this kind of set up and what IS its purpose?  I am really 
> anxious to find out.
> Jade