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Yamaha DTXtreme III Special Electronic Drum Kit Is Like A Classy Wood-Tasting Party, And Everyone's Invited

February 02, 2009
Yamaha DTXtreme III Special Electronic Drum Kit Winter NAMM 2009

For those of you who enjoy discussing the subtle differences between birch, beech and maple tom-tom shells and won't settle for anything else than the most realistic cymbal choking action, the Yamaha DTXreme III Special Electronic Drum Kit might be the the perfect fit for your discriminating lifestyle.

Yamaha made use of its experience in manufacturing actual drums in designing the DTXreme III Special kit; do the results pay off? Watch the video and judge for yourself. Of, if you don't like forming your own opinions (or are too busy to do so), the answer is "yes."

Visit Yamaha's official website for more information

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The sound quality of this

By: Anonymous Coward (not verified)

The sound quality of this video is all phasey and doesn't give one a very good representation of the true character of the sounds. Also the video quality is jerky and not as good as the Quicktime videos previously available on Gearwire. Hate Flash. Hate streaming.

Thu, 2009-02-05 09:49

I also hate the fact that in

By: Anonymous Coward (not verified)

I also hate the fact that in order to post a comment I have to reload and start listening to the video all over again. I wish you'd go back to the way things were.

Thu, 2009-02-05 09:51

video

By: bholland

to be fair, the video was shot at namm, which is probably the least ideal place I can think of for capturing decent audio. As for the jerkiness, I'm running some tests with the bitrates to see if we can get the videos to stop running like that on DSL.

Thu, 2009-02-05 11:21

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