Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, sovereigng@a... wrote:

> The original Simmons cymbal "pad" was made of some super dense

injection

> molded polystyrene. What a clangorous pad it is! If you thought the
> clickity-click of the "V" pads was annoying......... Anyway, the

cymbal is somewhat of

> an oblong hexagon running 13.5 inches from front to back (viewed

from the

> played position as it is hung on a stand) and 11.5 inches from left

to right. As

> for triggering, there are in fact two piezos wired to the same XLR

connector.

> The pad is basically three pieces of plastic screwed together. The

first piezo

> is hot-glued to the camber or first piece beneath the bell

assembly. This gives

> you the basic cymbal sound that some of us who own the cymbal

module have

> come to know. The second piezo is hot-glued to the bell assembly,

under the dome

> and appears to have additional electronic components wired and

glued in place

> on top of the positive element."

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Something like this? http://img231.exs.cx/img231/5026/whatthis3zh.jpg