Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Dunno. Will have a look later maybe. Still doen't solve the noisy amp 
though....is there an experienced Simmons service tech in Vic? 

BTW have enjoyed your work over the years, especially Real 
Life, "Happy" in particular.

Cheers,
Ken. 

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "Adam Calaitzis" <adamcal@...> 
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> Ive never looked inside a SDS8,  but in the SDS5 each voice card 
has little trimmers to set the factory sound (aside from the 3 
channels on the front) ,  you can make the factory sound to be 
whatever you want it to be.  are there trimmers inside the sds8?
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>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: ken_evans_99 
>   To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 11:06 AM
>   Subject: Re: [Simmons Drums] Good News/Bad News SDS8
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>   Well, it *does* make some sounds, but only the tone, not the 
noise 
>   component. Plus amp output is *very* noisy, one side only, and 
quiet at 
>   that. Kick drum preset comes out as a low quiet "crack...le", 
preset 
>   snare is inaudible but switch to "user" and you can get the tone 
at 
>   least. Preset toms are a *very* low pitched short quiet "bloh" 
sound.
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>   If I wasn't a grown up I'd be having a cry about 
now...mmmmwaaaaaaaH!
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>   Ken.
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>   --- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, Steve Ridley <spr@> wrote:
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>   > > Are _all_ the noises dead? I thought the SDS-8 used separate 
>   channels for 
>   > > each voice. Long time since I owned one but...
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>   > The noise source is probably common to all voices. That's how
>   > it's usually done.
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>   > Steve
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