Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "Tom Williamson" <tom@t...> wrote:
> The 7 original SDS-III document scans used in the PDF on Paul's site
> are available on my personal site for a limited period:-  
www.tomdw.com
> 
> Tom W.
Sank you, sank you, welly much! :-)

After a short glipse at the schemos, to me the SDS3 looks a bit dorky!
Sort Off, not much of variation in sounds here!

So whats the fuzz about the SDS3? Both SD5 and 7 are neater 
when it comes to sound but perhaps the package the SD3 comes
in are cuter! :-)

BTW i did some initial sound tests of the proposed Drum VOICE 
cirqurityry i described earlier just for fun and i was quite 
suppriced how well it sounded and the quite broad range of 
sounds its capable off, it was to be back in 1982 again!

At the moment its best at various Toms, BD and metallick
and wodden sounds a bit of work left for really decent
snares, Hi/hat quite OK but some more variations could
be neat .

Snares rellay needs a some wodd/metall to it but
at least 2 BP separate Cf points to get some variation.

I didnt like the klick gen that simmons uses in some machines
so i did a variation on the theme that works verry well!

I also come up witha neat cirquitry to emulate second skin
and tension of skin, really neat i could simulate untuned
floppy, lose skin skrews garage BD's! :-)

Oh, and the rolling simmons toms are just fine!

Reg
KD Lang