Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Can anyone help me with this.  I have played a Roland Stage kit for 
about 3 years and thought I would look into the DTXtreme since its a 
6 piece kit.  I went to our local Sam Ash store to see what they were 
about and found that they sounded great.  Any input to this would be 
greatly appreciated.  

Thx

--- dtroitdsellvr" wrote:
> Can anyone help me with this. I have played a Roland
> Stage kit for about 3 years and thought I would look
> into the DTXtreme since its a 6 piece kit. I went to
> our local Sam Ash store to see what they were about
> and found that they sounded great. Any input to this
> would be greatly appreciated.

What sort of input would you like?

Stewart

You have discovered the strong point with Yamaha modules, Realistic 
Sounds. I have purchased several modules and almost purchased Roland 
but the COSM stopped me in my tracks. Yamaha provides samples where  
the beef is on the bone. With Roland they give you the bone, and you 
build the beef. Personally I rather add to the already excellent 
acoustic sample than try to create it from a template sound. What 
you will find with Yamaha sounds are they do not get tired sounding. 
I own the DTXtreme-2 and they sound great through a PA. The 
triggering is nice as Roland units trigger very nicely also. The 
triggering is every bit as good as Rolands as I played the TD-8 and 
Xtreme side by side. In my side by side compairson the Yammie's 
sounded full and rich.  Roland modules are well laid out as are the 
Yamaha's. I like the idea of not having tom depths modeled and room 
abience etc. as it makes creating a sound more complex. Yamaha 
modules do have a lot of effects that can be added but for the most 
part a little reverb, and perhaps a bit of tuning will get the drum 
to sound excellent very easily. Kits are easy to build and the 
xtreme comes with a myrid of acoustic samples along with over 2000 
other samples. The Xtreme-2's ability to sample sounds is another 
area to be explored, You can load in your favorite sounds and store 
them on a media card. It's ability as a sequencer is world class and 
favored by some top drummers. I hope this helps. Not meaning to slam 
Roland's performance in it's sound. Trying to ascess in a fare way. 
Everyone has there preference. I am saving for a D Drum module to 
compare it with my Xtreme as I also am open to suggestions. For me, 
I found Yamaha so far makes the best sounding drums, acoustic and 
electronic. 

 --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "moosetication" 
<moosetication@y...> wrote:

> --- dtroitdsellvr" wrote:
> > Can anyone help me with this. I have played a Roland
> > Stage kit for about 3 years and thought I would look
> > into the DTXtreme since its a 6 piece kit. I went to
> > our local Sam Ash store to see what they were about
> > and found that they sounded great. Any input to this
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> What sort of input would you like?
> 
> Stewart

I went to Guitar Center and played on the most expensive Roland V 
set and then compared it to a Yamaha DTXpress. Sound wise I must 
say, I didn't really hear anything in the Roland kit that would make 
me want to spend the extra cash. Just me?

I've been eyeballing the DTXpress 3 (special) and the DTXtreme 2 
myself. 

Steve

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "zapaxe" <a_zapelectric@h...> wrote:
> 
> 
> I went to Guitar Center and played on the most expensive Roland V 
> set and then compared it to a Yamaha DTXpress. Sound wise I must 
> say, I didn't really hear anything in the Roland kit that would 
make 
> me want to spend the extra cash. Just me?
> 
> I've been eyeballing the DTXpress 3 (special) and the DTXtreme 2 
> myself. 
> 
> Steve


 I've been very happy with the Roland but it has gotten old after 
playing them for as long as I have.  Thought I would try something 
different.  The only thing that I was concerned about was going from 
mesh heads to gum rubber pads.  When I tried them out, they felt very 
good and I didn't feel any negative vibrations in my arms like you 
would on the old Simmons pads.  I also like the fact that they have 
two crashes stock with the kit and the three zone ride.  I need to 
try them out again having more time to check out the different sounds 
and functionality that the brain in the Yamaha has. 

 Would you be able to use a 2 zone crash on the input for Crash 2?

 Has anyone having the DTXtreme 2 kit found the hardware is a 
problem?  I would be using this kit for at home practice and also 
performing in a live setting as well as recording studios.  I have 
just about completely moved away from acoustic drums because Electric 
are much more versatile.  I need to make sure that the kit is going 
to be able to hold up to a lot of transport.

 How is the Snare on this kit?  I noticed from the salesman that the 
control knob on the snare is supposed to control more than just the 
pitch.  Is this a good thing?

 Again, thanks for all of the imput and I'm glad I found this board 
as I really don't want to go in to this purchase blindly. Im sure you 
all understand that this is a big purchase and I want to make sure 
that I will be happy with it.

Correct me if I am wrong, but the DTXpress samples sound as good as 
the xtreme's. I was very impressed with the Xpress 3's. Price point 
wise they seem like an awsome deal. They didn't have the xpress 3's 
in when I bought my xtreme's. I do like the mixer feature onthe 
Xtreme's though. 

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "zapaxe" <a_zapelectric@h...> wrote:
> 
> 
> I went to Guitar Center and played on the most expensive Roland V 
> set and then compared it to a Yamaha DTXpress. Sound wise I must 
> say, I didn't really hear anything in the Roland kit that would 
make 

> me want to spend the extra cash. Just me?
> 
> I've been eyeballing the DTXpress 3 (special) and the DTXtreme 2 
> myself. 
> 
> Steve