Overall User Ratings

"Year and a half owner."

Feature:
I use the recording occasionally to record tracks, and this is pretty neat. It is not super sophisicated but it does have two tracks. You can blend two tracks into one and this way you can add infinite tracks to the "master" track. This set has a bunch of different drum sounds and drum sets to choose from. I think the majority of them are useless, but maybe someone else would appreciate them more.

Quality:
I think the set is of poor quality for a 1500 dollar price tag. I've owned this set for a year and a half. The screws fell out of the cymbals within a month. I eventually had to super-glue them in myself. The snare is defective; occasionally it will lose its sensitivity and become almost unplayable. I have to turn off the set to correct this. The frame is plastic and I have a hard time stabalizing it(this may be my own fault). My ride cymbal was defective and I had to replace it (under warranty). My crash no longer works and I've had to buy another for 130 dollars. I also have a problem with "cross-talk". I hit a cymbal and a tom will go off. I hit a tom and a cymbal will go off. I play hard and this stuff is probaly correctable but this was not a problem for the first year or so. I also have a crack in the rubbeer of my hi-hat. This is not an issue yet butthis will probaly cost 200 dollars. I think I may be a liitle heavy handed for this set.

Value:
I think the set is worth maybe a thousand. I don't like the fact that I had defective drums (snare and ride cymbal) and I don't like little screws falling out of my cymbals. I don't like the plastic frame, either. I do like the fact that I can play in my house anytime I want, so in a way it is worth the money.

Desirability:
I did not have 3000-6000 dollars for a Roland, and I liked the fact that the Yamaha had two crashes that looked like cymbals as opposed to flippers. This is a fun set to play if you can keep it together.

Sound:
On one hand, I like the sounds I chose for my personalized drumset; for an electronic set I think it sounds really good. I can easily get lost in a tape I am playing and forget I'm playing an electric set. On the other hand, I think 90% of the choices for snare, bass, toms are pretty useless. I think the majority of the snares are especialy low quality. I would have preferred Yamaha spent more time perfecting maybe five really good snares, as opposed to inventing a hundred mediocre snare samples. I also think my snare is a little too low in volume for me personally.

Ease of Use:
Generally, this is a pretty easy-to use drumset. Some of the particulars get a little confusing, but I was able to customize my own set and play it the first night I set the drumset up.

Support:
I have not dealt with Yamaha personally. They playewd it by the book with me on my crash cymbal. The warranty ran out in a year and I had to buy the replacement.

Overall:
I do enjoy this set when it works properly. I've said a lot of negative things about it, but some of these may be my fault. Some were not, some I'm not sure about. This is great for practice. I can play to music and actually hear the music I'm playing to. I can play at 6 in the morning, which is nice. When this set is not acting goofy it can be a lot of fun. I'm not sure it is worth 1500 but it isn't a disaster either. I think Yamaha should put more money into quality of the set and a lot less on coming up with 100o different snares, bass, toms, and especially trumpets, helicopters and other useless sound effects.

Yamaha DTXPRESS III Special Customer Review

Feature:
The features are really cool but you could have added more sounds to it.

Quality:
This is the overall that i would rate it for sound, features, and everything. The Quality should be a ten.

Value:
A 6 because not everything is perfect on it for example sound and features.

Desirability:
It got me right away.

Sound:
It echos and i turn it all the way up and i have 16in speakers hooked up to it and it sucks. It should be cheaper for other costumers of fix the problem.

Support:
When i bang on them they dont move at all. good job at this part

Overall:
unless you upgrade it and make the sound better and more features.