Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "moosetication" 
<moosetication@y...> wrote:
> Leaving the kick beater on the head between strokes is a valid 
option. 

Max,

When I started playing e-drums, I had the same "problem." Aside from 
the matter of technique, which is always hard to alter, e-drums, 
unlike acoustics, are touch-sensitive--more so with elevated 
sensitivity and gain settings. The point may seem obvious, but it 
wasn't to me back then. I'd think that I was hitting the kick drum 
once (the KP60--don't get me started), but each kick was starting a 
whole chain of perplexing events. The double triggers were partly 
due to the unforgiving nature of the hard rubber but also the fact 
that I tended almost imperceptively to touch the pad with the beater 
after every stroke, not unlike adding little syncopations and ghosts 
to the snare after a beat. I had to work to become conscious of the 
habit, harmless enough on an acoustic but annoying as hell on the 
Xpress. 

But the solution doesn't stop with the mechanics of the foot. When 
you've downloaded the manual, experiment with lowering the kick's 
sensitivity (if it has a knob, turn it back halfway or less), 
reducing its gain via the trigger menu, and raising its minimum 
velocity, until you reach settings that work under ordinary 
conditions but don't register too many unwanted noises when you 
backslide with the pedal. If the trigger is too hot, it will pick up 
too much; the kick can afford to be a little cruder in touch than 
the other pads. Use volume (a voice parameter), rather than gain (a 
trigger parameter), to register power.

Keep in touch.

Ed