Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Michael Buchner skrev:
> I once had Wolfgangs SDS3 here for repair and was very astonished of the 
> sound. I compared it to SDSV, but they are two different machines with 
> different targets: The 3 as a real synthesizer, the V as a (thought 
> of...) replacement of acoustic drums. There is no better or worse.
> As you know, the SDS3 is based on a 1:1 ripoff of the original moog- 
> ladder filter. Only this is the reason, why the beast sounds so 
> incredible (like the minimoog itself). There is no VCO and the click 
> impact sound is simulated by a short rise in cutoff frequency. I never 
> saw this on another device and it sounds like hell.
> Because it is all analogue, every beat is sounding a little bit 
> different being triggered. This means, the machine "lives", it 
> "breathes". If you only sample the sound, you will lose this life. I 
> watch this also on the TR 808 and the TR 909. In my opinion, they also 
> cannot be replaced by software or hardware samplers. I play the 
> originals and I promise you all: This difference is existing.
> By the way: I agree with the look of the 909, it is definately not a 
> beauty. But the sound is not boring at all: If connected to a good 
> analogue mixing console with slightly overdriven input stages, you 
> should hear it bark!! This sound is unbeatable, even after all these years.

I prefer the drum synths, but yes, there is some good sounds there. I 
was being unfair. But it sure is ugly! :D

> I understand, why people pay a lot of money for all these machines 
> mentioned above. May be the SDS3 was a long time standing in the shadow 
> of SDSV, but without reason.

...and I think that is starting to reflect on prices. Especially since 
there were 200 or so SDS-3's sold. I guess that's in the region of 5% of 
the sales of SDS-V but that you might know better...

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