Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Good luck then... I've seen quite a few messy ones with two or three cards 
etc. At one time I owned three units and from them designed a full set and 
sold the rest...
The only thing that was close to stopping me (expect the coolness of having 
three ;) ) was the fact that some of those I let go wore the Music Aid logo 
and not the Simmons one...

electronically yours, jesper
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "clae13" <clae13@...>
To: <Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 7:46 PM
Subject: [Spam] [Simmons Drums] Re: Cloning SIMMONS modules


> 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.
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> And I may want to mount each voice separately, I have some pretty wacky 
> ideas.
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> 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:
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>> 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...
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