Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi everyone,

Just spent the last few days reorganising my spare room at home to 
move my kit upstairs to stop my neighbour complaining about 
a "strange rhythmical tapping noise"...I pretended I knew nothing 
about it...but haven't played the DTXpress now for months...maybe I 
should play the acoustic kit and see which noise he prefers?!?!

Anyway...moved the kit upstairs but I have the common complaint about 
the kick pedal making too much noise...so two questions:

1.) I replace the kick pad with a silent mesh type....I like the look 
of the KOBY mesh drum pad http://www.koby.co.uk/information.htm only 
£115 including P+P...I need to get rid of the Yamaha kick anyway it's 
awful (like everyone in this group agrees!!). Does anyone use a KOBY 
kick??? Any thoughts / experiences? Is it truly quiet? Or maybe the 
DTXtreme kick pad?

2.) I construct a platform to put the kick pedal and tower on..to 
isolate the sound as much as possible. Any proven solutions / designs 
to this?

I've spent loads of money to get smaller spare room furniture only to 
find I still can't play the kit at 3am...so disappointed :-(

Thanks in advance guys...

Spence

Spence:

My set is in an upstairs room and I also had the problem of sound
coupling to the other downstairs room. I contact a friend of mine who has
worked as an engineer for IBM and he came up with an isolation platform
design. His step by step instructions are here:

http://www.dtxpressions.com/platform/platform.htm

As for the 3am playing, I've found that if I play with the lightest
sticks and then crank the headphone volume way up, I don't have to hit
the pads so hard so I don't create as much vibration/noise.

Vern

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spencerhopkinson said:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Just spent the last few days reorganising my spare room at home to
> move my kit upstairs to stop my neighbour complaining about
> a "strange rhythmical tapping noise"...I pretended I knew nothing
> about it...but haven't played the DTXpress now for months...maybe I
> should play the acoustic kit and see which noise he prefers?!?!
>
> Anyway...moved the kit upstairs but I have the common complaint about
> the kick pedal making too much noise...so two questions:
>
> 1.) I replace the kick pad with a silent mesh type....I like the look
> of the KOBY mesh drum pad http://www.koby.co.uk/information.htm only
> \ufffd115 including P+P...I need to get rid of the Yamaha kick anyway it's
> awful (like everyone in this group agrees!!). Does anyone use a KOBY
> kick??? Any thoughts / experiences? Is it truly quiet? Or maybe the
> DTXtreme kick pad?
>
> 2.) I construct a platform to put the kick pedal and tower on..to
> isolate the sound as much as possible. Any proven solutions / designs
> to this?
>
> I've spent loads of money to get smaller spare room furniture only to
> find I still can't play the kit at 3am...so disappointed :-(
>
> Thanks in advance guys...
>
> Spence
>
>
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Hi Spence

I've got a Koby Kit.  The Mesh heads are near-silent...but the BD 
pedal is the culprit, I can play the kit with the lightest of 
touches, but I still have a tendency to jump on the BD pedal...not 
that I have to...the sensitivity on my DM5 for the BD pad is set 
quite high, just a leftover habit from my acoustic days maybe...

Drew