mounting click station

[altered_beast]

is there any way to mount a Yamaha click station?

I'd misread somewhere it could be mounted on an L-arm but that seems not to be the case. It now looks as tho it will mount with an "optional mount" but I can't find said optional mount anywhere on the net - I was gonna order one from Wembley Drum Centre cos my click station arrived today with a hole in the LCD display so it's being exchanged early next week - I want to have all the gear so I can just mount it up and get going!

[altered_beast]

Nobody else mounted Yammie click station? I find this slightly difficult to believe!

[altered_beast]

I'm finding it hard to believe that no one here has a Yamaha click station and further still that they haven't mounted it to a cymbal stand...

[Drum-Head]

All the information you need can be found on the net/Yamaha catalogs - to install a Clickstation on a L rod type mounting system you have to purchase the MAS1 adapter. If you want to install the metronome on a microphone stand or a classic cymbal stand, you need to buy the BMS 10A adapter.


Regards,
Christopher.

[altered_beast]

Thanks, I had a look on the Yamaha Europe web page and couldn;t see the info on there about mounting it and the instruction book is ridiculously vague.

Cheers for that!

Al

[Drum-Head]

Glad to have been of some service. How are you liking the CS?

[altered_beast]

It hasn't arrived yet haha, it's meant to arrive tomorrow I think. I had a bit of a game with Newcastle Drum Centre, the first one they sent was broken and they said they should be able to get me one for this coming week, when I spoke to them on Friday they said that Yamaha UK had none in stock and wouldn't be getting them til January, so I cancelled the order and ordered one from Wembley Drum Centre and it'll be here this week haha. I'll post back when I get it, but the broken one looked like a good bit of kit, beside the hole in the LCD! I was recommended the CS over the Tama Rhythm Watch and everyone I've spoken to about them has said the CS is leagues ahead of the RW.

[joeybeats]

Check this out, Beast. Joey

http://www2.yamaha.co.jp/manual/pdf/emi/english/metro/mas1_en.pdf

[altered_beast]

I don't really understand, is the Yamaha catalogue calling an L-rod a cowbell holder? I've never mounted a cowbell, so please excuse my ignorance!

Cheers for posting that up, it makes things a bit clearer when you can visualise it!

Thanks!

Al

[altered_beast]

OK, my click station came today and it is an awesome bit of kit, but I am a bit confused by the booklet. Can you program it so that it will, for instance, play 4 bars in 3 and a bar in 4? cos the way I'm reading the chain function is like that but I can't get the chain function to work properly. Can someone describe exactly what the step function is meant to do? I'm a bit confused, but it's gonna be awesome for rudiments and stuff.

[altered_beast]

Is there some bias against the click station or something? Or is it only Joey and Drum-Head that have one of these? I'm kind of confused by the book. I think it's probably the way it has translated from Japanese to English, but I'm totally confused by how to make a chain of different time signatures with this thing!

[Jeff Almeyda]

I have one but I've only used it for 4/4 stuff. I'll see if I can figure it out for you. Gimme a day or so.