Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- underneathheaven  wrote:
> ... instead of keeping the hi-hat pad on 
> the snare rack-arm, you could move the hi-hat
> pad up to the arm that carries the xpress module.

I think this is essential, frankly. You're just too limited for 
relative positioning otherwise. The big issue is the size of the 
pads... on an acoustic kit, you might have 13" hats and a 14" snare, 
which means you can get the snare close enough to the hats to run 
16ths from the hats to somewhere on the snare, while still keeping 
the snare sweet spot in a sensible place. With two 8" pads, that's 
nigh-on impossible. This is one of the main reasons I "upgraded" the 
snare to a 10" Pintech, and the hit-hat to a TP65S. It's still far 
from perfect, but it ain't bad.

You can get an idea of what I mean here:
http://www.manley.org.uk/images/kit.jpg

Stewart