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Subject: Re: Betr: Re: Betr: [Simmons Drums] 8" skins on early pads?

From: jesper <jesper@...>
Date: 2008-02-24

Michael Buchner skrev:
> Hello Jesper,
> and if you have the pads already open, I suggest to replace the old pickup
> speakers with piezos. The original speakers pick up the surrounding noise
> like monitors or bass amplifiers too much.

Well, the thing is that I like the feel of the speakers better. The
reaction to the impact is different imho. I also enjoy the feel of
having a restored pad and not a modified.

Today all the pads for my SDS-3 set have acrylic hardshells to match a
SDS-V set and hence the speakers inside have been exhanged for piezos
already. I plan to go the other way.

I mainly use pads in the studio this far and if I ever go live I have
enough junk with piezos to gig ;)

But thanks for the tip anyway!

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