"tennis racket", that's a cool comparism! I have the vision of
organizing an ATP "Simmons Open" competition.
My next idea (I am in a pad building experimenation period right
now...) is to equip my Jazz Bass with finger pads. I know this idea is
not new and based on the fact there there was just a Dynacord rythm
stick on ebay. If I post this to the "Fender Jazz Bass" newsgroup, I
expect a more controverse and bloody discussion than I triggered here.
This might be worth the effort...
However, thanks for this discussion. I am looking forward playing
original SDSV pads from 10am to 7pm and the mesh head pimped SDSV pads
from 7pm to 10am to spare my little kids some chinese torture. I never
understood whenever somebody selling Simmons gear on ebay added the
sentence "no more fight with the neighbours". At least the bassdrums
(I am talking about each and every generation of Simmons bassdrums and
I have them all) are much too loud
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Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "rolandbrenner@..."
<rolandbrenner@...> wrote:
>
> I'ts always been a wonder to me that other drummers complained about
the SDSV pads being uncomfortable considering they are hitting things
equally as hard ( cymbals, cowbells, rims, woodblocks, Ice bells, etc.
etc. etc. ). Buddy Rich used to play his hardware as part of his solos
! I guess I understand if it's in the case of a snare, but that's
about it. Then the opposite was invented by Roland ( i.e. Tennis
rackets ). I personally think the feel of the tennis racket pads are
worse, but their module sounds have always been awesome. MHO
> - Roland
> PS - The Tama Techstars or Spacemuffin pads are probably the best if
you need the exact feel of an acoustic since that's pretty much what
they are !! ( again, MHO ).
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