Ive just had a tinker with mine (hi hat)
I never used the spring that came with it as it made it hard to clamp it closed, I coincidently used the felt pads too, in the lower sensor, but have now added more felts (as per previous poster pics)
had a tinker with the sensitivity/ calibration settings (trim10/49)
threshold i knocked down to 4, log4 I think I used so I now get a now
closed noise when i step on the pedal.
I too was disapointed when I first set this up a couple of weeks back, but after a tinker/firmware update (total and hi hat)
its acually doing what I want it to do 98% of the time.
with the extra felts, stick noise is halved (was tempted to put old hi hat on)
I tried using the original hi hat, but due to the lip not touching the three pressure points on the lower hat, it didnt close.
experimenting with bits of rubber pad taped to the upper hat, in the relevant places, made it work (ish).
I was going to tinker with this further, but now the xpro hat is working fine,
I decided just to flog my pedal and hat on eblag