Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

My view on e-drums is they are really just in their infancy or maybe they
have reached their "pre-teen" years. They have made great strides, but they
are no equal to a real A-drum. The Roland V-pro comes closer to a A-drum
than most in several aspects, but it is still no equal to one. And if you
want a true A-drum look and feel, why spend $5000 on a V-pro when you could
get the real thing (A-drum) for half the price that sounds twice as good. 
 
A-drums have their niche and E-drums have their niche, there is overlap in
what they can do, but they are simply not the same. I can play my edrums at
2 am in the morning, I couldn't do that with A-drums. I can re-tune my
edrums by pressing one button, I could never do that with a A-drum.  
 
I don't believe the DTXpress series was ever really intended for the true
"professional/semi-professional" drummer, even though it has been used by
some. The Dtxtreme IIS (the current top of the line Yamaha kit) is intend
for the serious home user and budding semi-professional. Yamaha doesn't
really have a kit they call out as "For the true full-time professional
player."
 
The stock kits on the Dtxpress should be a starting point on which to build
on. I think the disappointment comes from them not sounding like ones
favorite a-drum. I know that when I was ten years old and got my first
a-drum, it took a while to tune them to sound good to my ears. I had to
change drum heads and mufflers before I was somewhat happy. E-drums are
really no different. They have to be "tuned" and tweaked and just like a
$600 A-drum, no matter what you do to it, it will never sound like a $5000
A-drum kit. The Dtxpress is at the low end of the market.
 
Thanks for you impressions, as this helps bring up awareness that just
because you spend $1500 on a E-drum set, you can't expect to get an
equivalent $1500 A-drum, in terms of sound and feel. 
 
Perhaps with 10-15 years more of development in the edrum market, they will
be almost indestinguishable from a E-drum.
 
OGD

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From: purtatoe  
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 10:43 PM
To: DTXpress@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [DTXpress] My new DTX-3 Special kit


 " Hello out there in E-drum land!

I'm a drummer of 25+ years and a working songwriter. I bought the 
DTXpress 3 special for recording my song demos as getting real drums 
to sound good in a home studio is all but impossible.

As you can see I was not impressed at all. 

I just wanted to give my honest opinion. " 




 
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