Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Yeah, -having- an empty chassis would be great, and definitely the easiest, but 
-finding- one is a whole other story. I'm not even sure how many of these were 
imported into Australia.  I've seen two in the last six-odd years. 
 
And I may want to mount each voice separately, I have some pretty wacky ideas.   
 
The card edge connector has labels on each pin for +12 and -12V, trigger in, 
ground, audio out etc.  I was more wondering about things like impedance 
matching, buffering the trigger ins etc.  I know the specs for the ins and outs for the 
whole rack are available, I was hoping someone here could help me with the 
internal specs at the point where the voice card joins the backplane. 
 
Worst comes to worst, I'll just wire up a power supply, a piezo and a jack and see 
what happens. 
 
Cheers, 
 
Clae. 
 
--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, <jesper@...> wrote: 
> 
> I'd say finding an empty chassis or one close to empty would be easiest  
> thing to power them with. Also a good place to put extra knobs etc... 
>  
> ----- Original Message -----  
> From: "clae13" <clae13@...> 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 1:21 AM 
> Subject: Re: Cloning SIMMONS modules 
>  
> > I have a set of SDSV 
> > modules (no rack) which I intend to heavily modify.  First of all I need  
> > information on 
> > interfacing them, such as a schematic of the electronics in the rack. Then  
> > I would 
> > replace each of the front panel trimmer pots with full-size pots on a  
> > larger or added 
> > panel.  I have an old text file at home with some other mods. 
> > 
> > I would be happy to help with board scans, as I don't have to take apart a  
> > working 
> > SDSV to get at the modules. 
> > 
> > It's handy that the pins on the back edge connector on each module are  
> > labelled :) 
> > 
> > Clae. 
> > 
> > --- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "ttete500" <raymond.eppherre@> 
> > wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Hello, 
> >> Is there here people interested by building SIMMONS clones or modify 
> >> SIMMONS modules?? 
> >> I will be very interested to speak and to exchange ideas with them! 
> >>        Thierry EPPHERRE a French SIMMONS fan...