Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Hi Ken,

Just wanted to let you know there have been two on ebay au lately.

One was the Pseudo Echo one and the other was from the guy that I bought my
SDSV off..Teditea.

I know..sort of shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted :-(

Cheers

N
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M
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> 1a. Good News/Bad News SDS8
> Posted by: "ken_evans_99" tycho33@... ken_evans_99
> Date: Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:16 am ((PST))
> 
> Well, my SDS8 brain arrived in Australia from the US....
> 
> Good news is that my service tech was able to easily convert it from
> 110 volt to 240 (220) volt - involved simply rewiring the transformer
> in series instead of parallel. Simple. Only AUD$70 (about 40 Euro). All
> the lights and buttons work fine.
> 
> Bad news is that the factory settings are obviously not working
> properly, the noise part of the tone control produces no noise (it
> generates the tone part fine), and on the stereo out it only produces
> sound from one channel (yes, using a proper stereo split Y cable). The
> mix out (mono) and seperate outs are very quiet but also very noisy,
> which I figure is the summed L/R out with one dud channel.
> 
> Any suggestions or insights? I'm very depressed about this....
> 
> Ken.