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Hello friends!
We're finally get ourselves a brilliant piece of equipment, called... SDSV!
With full set of custom sunset painted pads as well as brain with BD, SD, 3 TOMS and DIGITAL HH..
Serial number 550 and it was used by Duran-Duran. :)
That's the good news!

Then - the bad news.
I already two times serviced it by the skilled man, (who work on Waves now, hardware)
but he seems to not be able to solve all the problems.
The unit overall is in "so-so" condition.
Bass drum works well.
1. Snare - from time to time, getting stuck on a factory sound, after some time being "on" - it let me switch through the modes, but some times getting back on factory sound..

2. Toms sounds... emm.. different! I cant make the similar sounds on them, even if the knobs seems 100% similar! High tom has shorter and sharper decay, Mid tom seems to be as it should be, the low tom sounds dull, noise too closed, and there's no way to open it :(

3. Hihat - is a weird one 3 knobs not working (even the small screws on 3 & 4) - so i think it's something inside.. It sounds too quiet (3-4 times quieter than other sounds), decay is too long also (despite the somehow working knob!)..

4.Hihat pedal seems to not working at all...

Also, are the all XLR's has a standard pinout on SDSV? Or something special needed?

Any help will be very appreciated!!!
XOR