Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "bongokonzelmann" <carsten@h...>
wrote:
> Probably it only touches a side aspect but nevertheless: Before I
> bought my DTXPIII I was a DTXtremeI user and I remember my problem
> with loudness on the standard heads that go with the original setup.
> So I went to a local dealer and asked for meshheads and he strongly
> recommended not to go for any other than T-Drum heads which actually
> are the ones that are distributed by Ddrum in Europe (I therefore
> assume that they are mounted on Ddrum shells).
>
> Although I realise that your hardware (shells, pads) isn´t Ddrum or
> DTXtreme, still it is about Ddrum triggers. How do you view the
> influence a certain meshhead brand could have? - If you are
interested
> to have a look at T-Drums´ website the link is www.triggerhead.com.

I'd like to think a little about what Abdulmalek has observed--that
dropouts are more likely to occur nearer to the trigger than away
from it. I'm familiar with the DTXPU's tendency to multiple triggers
with certain pads at certain settings. As for what happens with the
DT10/20 setting and mesh heads, I'm tempted to say that the DTXPU
module is too slow to read strong signals that follow each other
closely, but at a distance, when the signal envelope is shorter, it
doesn't hang up as much. But I'm not sure about that theory.

As for mesh heads, I think that ddrum had to license the ones on its
pads from triggerhead, who had an agreement with Roland. What impacts
triggering with mesh heads is not so much the brand (which varies
mainly by thickness, if at all, for the purposes of this issue) but
where the piezo is located beneath it, the nature of the foam that
intervenes, and how tightly the head is tuned. I wouldn' be surprised
if Bongo's problem was either heads that weren't tight enough or shell
interiors that tended to muffle the piezo. Lots of people with the
first DTXT simply swapped the mylar heads for Roland or Pintech
meshes, rearranged the foam layers as necessary, and never looked
back.

Ed