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Hi Jim,

Welcome to the lucky owners club !

just a few words about the V ...
Yes the factory sounds are not "unforgetable", & can be very  
disapointing. I personnaly never play them...especially the snare...
they don't have the same level at all compared to my other settings.
You might have a problem as well, on some componants too...but before  
that you can check by yourself

You need to know that these factory sounds can be set on the channel  
card itself (& inside...yep... you need to open it).
so it can become a fourth real memory instead of the one you avoid all  
the time ... ;- )
I've been too lazy to do it myself...

Anyway congratulations !
It's not easy to find one anymore now...


Hmmm.... just a personnal taste ; I personnaly recommend a good  
compressor on it ...

Have fun & let us know how you go ahead with it ...

Have a nice day !
Patrice.

PS ; to me all the tom channels are the same ...it will become L or R  
on your mixer ...if you're using a premix ...which is better really....




Le 18 sept. 08 à 04:20, jimstew37 a écrit :

> Hello, all:
>
> I recently got my hands on an SDSV, and I have a few questions.
> First off, I realize that this thing is pretty old and well used, as
> well as being an analogue unit. It also has presumably been converted
> from 240v to 115v, or whatever it is in the US. To be honest, I
> haven't opened the thing up to check, but it seems to operate on my
> house current. I also think the power switch has been replaced.
>
> At any rate, should the "factory" sound for the snare really be kind
> of lame sounding? It basically sounds like you're beating on a steel
> washtub, and has a pretty abrupt decay, and very little character at
> all. As a matter of fact, I can get this same sound on the other
> channels by turning the noise balance controls far anti-clockwise. It
> seems to me that the noise shouldn't have much tone to it, but more of
> a white noise sound.
>
> The kick and tom modules sound pretty decent otherwise. It's really
> the snare module that seems to be a problem. I've spent a fair amount
> of time twiddling knobs and so forth on this thing, but I think
> there's something amiss here.
>
> By the way, is there any obvious way to distinguish between the three
> tom modules? I see a small label on each circuit board, but other than
> what looks like "tom," "syn," "L," and "R," (left and right?), not
> much else besides listening to each module and making kind of an
> arbitrary choice as to which is which.
>
> Sorry for the length of this post!
>
> Regards,
> Jim Stewart
>
>
> 



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