Greetings! I have been using Allen's settings and they work great for me. I do not like to use a normal hi-hat on an e-kit. Defeats the purpose to me. I mount my hat in front of my two high toms just above the rim on a short cymbal stand to the rack. This makes it very ambidextrous and more useful to me. This also allows more room on the left where the hat would normally go. I put my Strike multi-pad there and it works out great. I have, and still have, the DM's from days past. I have the 10X, the Pro with metal cymbals, etc. One mod I did to the DM hat pedal that immensely made a huge difference was to put a bumper down on the trigger. I used a square furniture type bumper with the sticky back (get em at any hardware store). This makes a spacer between the pedal board and trigger making it way more sensitive once you work out the sensitivity in the settings. I've never had issues with that pedal since, even on the DM10. There's the added bonus of being able to put the pedal wherever you want by not being hindered by hi-hat stand. What is the point of making a hat go up and down on an e-kit?? I laugh at that one all the time. It does nothing other than make it LOOK like an acoustic hat. I like flexibility and this trick gives you just that.
Back to the question of Allen's settings. I do believe I tweaked off of his settings a little bit but not much and I don't recall which ones I changed. But even with his setting, it did work quite well for me. Hope this helps!