Hi Jose,
welcome to the club.
I run a repair shop for SDS "all but 6 and X", by the way. I am located near Frankfurt, Germany.
Best
Michael
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Betreff: [Simmons Drums] SDSV issue
Datum: Sat, 24 May 2014 08:19:54 +0200
Von: "jose_sds8@... [Simmons_Drums]" <Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com>
An: <Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com>
Hi all
I finally got an SDSV after a long time (yeah!). I received it this week and after buying some XLR-jack cables and making my own for output (damn 3rd hot pin), it has some issues, despite the seller sold it as "good working condition". I think it's far from that. It was a huge disappointment.
First of all, it came with high tom moved to the 6th bank. I thought it would look more "standard" if I moved it to 4th bank. So I did that. (BD, SD, TM, TM, TM). Well, powered it up and did not work. Great, faulty bank? No. The back connector had the little plastic notch one position down and a bent pin in the same place. I moved the notch to the correct position and worked fine (I had to read service manual).
Checking all modules I noticed that Snare and High tom had problems with noise generator. You can watch this video. Sorry for audio saturation.
There is a bit of crosstalk between modules but I am using SDS8 pads.
Snare. Factory preset is supposed to be the right one. Noise knobs on the 3rd preset seem to work fine. The ones at 2nd preset are hard to rotate (almost plain surface). So, the pots at 4th preset are faulty, right?.
High Tom. No noise at any preset, even at factory one.
The rest of them I think they are working ok.
What do you think? This is not "good working condition" damn... It was not cheap.
Thank you so much.