Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Well...
it sounds like this group love Analog stuff...no offence ;- )
I know one being analog addicted here ...
But yes Simmons had quite a very strong personality in Digital world  
too !
What an incredible creative production over the years when we think  
about it ...
 From the all analogue to the all Digital ... & for a drummer, so many  
strong colours to use ...

I personnaly own 2 SDS2000 & love  them too...
It's not so flexible as the analog stuff with all settings (filters ,  
envelopes etc ...)
but I like this analog colour & warm of a very strict digital device.

for me coming from an SDSV to an SDS7 & using an sDS 2000 is just  
basically using diffrent colours & some warm or cold sounds...
For me the SDS2000 is very cold but has something bouncy in it ...
 From what Dave told me a long time ago It has been designed to give  
the "Phil Collins sound" which was the main drummer preoccupation in  
the late eighties...
that "cutting through" Gate sound.

It's good to have one in a rack ;- )

it depends of what you wanna do but for example you don't need some  
big compressors to have the cutting through aspect with the SDS2000...

Despite the fact they say that the SDS2000 is using SDX  
library ...there 's no comparison between both machines...maybe the  
same samples but even so ...
SDX is much more powerful & ballsy... (audio converters & filters  
again a digital "sample based" device with analog artillery in it )
BUT the SD2000 is easy to use & to carry away ...  ;- )  & not  
ridiculous at all ! a strong personality too...

& the design is beautiful no ?

after the SDX at Simmons, nothing much happened in term of Sound  
module ...
it was the era of "Simmons Digital", "Simmons Electronic ltd" was  
dead ...
It was then 1989 /90...
Just the SDS2000 & the Trixer (same thing with different interface  
& )..the XRack was a reconditionned SDX (new box for same electronic)...
so yes , no much more to say about it ...

Hope that helps,
Patrice.



Le 20 sept. 08 à 07:53, Phill a écrit :

> I'm just wondering, what are your guy's thoughts on the SDS 2000? who
> here owns one? I've just noticed that no one ever seems to talk about
> anything that was released after the sdx on here.
>
>
> 



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]