Yamaha DD65 Review

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Guest's Review of Yamaha DD65 Drum Kit

12th Aug 2009

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2 stars
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    2 stars
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I am in Australia, but because Yamaha here doesn't offer the dd65 I had my daughter (Flight attendant V Australia) pick one up from Sam Ash in Westminster LA. I have a dd55 but wanted to upgrade and was looking forward to getting the 8 pads rather than 7 and other advances that I assumed would be incorporated in a newer model. If I could bring this back and get a refund I would. The DD55 has the ability to adjust individual pad volume and this is absolutely critical to balancing the sound of a kit from place to place. For some insane reason they've dropped this feature on the DD65. That's just crazy and in my opinion makes them unusable for live performance. Also the sounds aren't as good as the DD55, particularly the hi hat. Also there is a problem with the hi hat control when using the midi function and a sound module. The pedal doesn't work!!

Regardless of the 8 pads and improved position of the hi hat pad there is nothing that will compensate for the lunacy of deleting the individual pad volume control.

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