Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Scott,

Like i said in another post, i gave up using the PCY80s for a ride and use a
TP80s for that, which feels a lot more natural, plus this gave me two PCY80s
crashes, which they're good at.

I too naturally took to hitting the far rim for rimshots on my TP80s snare,
though my snare is far enough back that I don't need to worry about
contacting the toms.  However, I have this questionable credo that my
electrokit should attempt to mirror my old acoustic setup as much as
possible -- to make it easy to switch back and forth. That includes
positioning the hi-hat peddle under the hat pad (relatively) etc. even
though when you think about it, there's no reason to even play cross-handed,
since the hat pad could be anywhere.

Anyway, I raised the snare about an inch and forced myself to hit the near
edge by my left knee since that's how I used to do it on my Westburys. I
think it was a good call.


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pete

From: "Scott Dunnington" <stdunnington@...>
Reply-To: DTXpress@egroups.com
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 23:57:49 -0500
To: <DTXpress@egroups.com>
Subject: Re: [DTXpress] how many pads max. ???

I have 10 pads connected:  The 8 OEM singles, plus a TP80S for the snare & a
PCY80S for an extra cymbal.
I run a single pad & cymbal into 9/10 thru a y-connector.  I have obtained
100% of my kit thru Ebay (rockbottommusic.com) or Yahoo Auctions.

I'm not too happy with the PCY80S, tho.  I was looking for a ride/bell ride
from it, but the rim needs to be hit pretty hard & I have trouble with
16th's on it.  I wasn't really interested in the choke.   The TP80S rim also
has to be hit hard, but it's not so bad at the right angle & I'm not trying
for speed.  For sidestick I dial down the volume.

I do like the versatility of the extra pads - I assign the 4th tom pad to
cowbell or floor tom, for 4 kits total (rim/ss, tom/cb).

Has anyone seen the same problems with the rim-switch pads?  Also, how are
other folks arranging the snare pad to allow rim hits?  I am hitting the far
rim, with the stick going between the 1 & 2 toms.


Scott in Georgia