Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

This number will probably go down by Monday, but what a milestone. I 
thought we were the donkey's ears when we were at 500, but now not 
even a half-ton seems far away.

Hi Guys:

I just uploaded pictures into Stephanie Ellison under photo albums.

The Yamaha DTXpress II e-drums has a mesh snare pad plugged into the 9-10
jack, and I usually stick with my programmed kits.  The mesh pad has a
double-ply head on it to make it less springy, which really helps.  The 3-zone
snare that comes with this kit is the left-most rubber pad with the hi-hat
pad to the right of it.  The hi-hat pad sits an inch above the mesh pad.
This is kind of like a kit with a remote hat instead of a traditional hi-hat
stand.  That hi-hat pad sits WAAAYYY right of the actual hi-hat controller
pedal.

I intend to eventually replace the 3 right rubber pads, which are toms, with
mesh pads that I'll build.

Notice in the dtxpress-2-brain picture that the input cables are color- and
numerically-coded.  I did that by making plastic labels with letters and
numbers on them.  I not only put them on, I also "soldered" them where the
end seams overlap, so they don't come unglued.

Stephanie

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "liberatusvirus" 
<liberatusvirus@y...> wrote:
> This number will probably go down by Monday, but what a milestone. 
I 
> thought we were the donkey's ears when we were at 500, but now not 
> even a half-ton seems far away.



Well Matey as I used to run a Yahoo forum,which I closed to move 
onto bigger and better things,I managed to go from 1 member to 934 
in less than 6 months,and this was a digital camera group.

As the price of the DTXpress seems to be falling,this will appeal to 
many a drummer who have only dreamed of owning a set of E-Drums,and 
with a little bit of patientce and maybe abit of promotion we will 
have over the 1,000 mark on this group before long.


Russell Butterfield

Russell wrote:Well Matey as I used to run a Yahoo forum,which I closed to
move 
> onto bigger and better things,I managed to go from 1 member to 934 
> in less than 6 months,and this was a digital camera group.
> 
> As the price of the DTXpress seems to be falling,this will appeal to 
> many a drummer who have only dreamed of owning a set of E-Drums,and 
> with a little bit of patientce and maybe abit of promotion we will 
> have over the 1,000 mark on this group before long.
> 
> 
I just got in this morning and noticed a dozen new members have signed up.
(We are over 800 now!!) I just wonder if the prospect of downloading the
"Drumb and Dumber" manual was the incentive for joining up??


OGD
 
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--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, rdamon@m... wrote:
> I just got in this morning and noticed a dozen new members have 
signed up.
> (We are over 800 now!!) I just wonder if the prospect of 
downloading the
> "Drumb and Dumber" manual was the incentive for joining up??

Stewart reads OGD's post and his shoulders start to droop under the 
weight of his responsibility. But bracing himself and staring down at 
his manuscript, he thinks, "I can live up to this challenge. 
Bring 'em on." 

(Ed, mimicking Stewart)

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Russell" <rpb1966@n...> wrote:
> Well Matey as I used to run a Yahoo forum,which I closed to move 
> onto bigger and better things,I managed to go from 1 member to 934 
> in less than 6 months,and this was a digital camera group.
> 
> As the price of the DTXpress seems to be falling,this will appeal 
to 
> many a drummer who have only dreamed of owning a set of E-Drums,and 
> with a little bit of patientce and maybe abit of promotion we will 
> have over the 1,000 mark on this group before long.

Hey Russell,

Did you bring any of those other shutter bugs along with you? That's 
a phenomenal growth rate that your group enjoyed. I figure that 
considering the relatively small number of drummers, and the even 
smaller subset of e-drummers, out there in the world, our four-year 
climb to 800 isn't too shabby either. I think that you're right about 
us getting to a grand before too long. 

Ed

--- Ed wrote:
> Stewart reads OGD's post and his shoulders start to droop...

We are not downhearted. Are we not men? We are Devo!

Stewart