Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Cheers chaps,
   unfortunately I'm in Sheffield, U.K. so the Stateside options are out really.
It's the fully loaded version with large (for then) hard drive, 3 snares, 4 cymbals,
God knows how many toms (they're stored in cupboards all over the place) and like
I said, originally, 3 bass drums.  I remember feeling I was just starting to get on top
of the bugger... Songs had to be recorded in 2 parts because the Atari would clog up
after 2.5-3 minutes with the amount of information the pads threw out, but it freed
up tape channels, and we only had 8! - when it failed all the work I'd programmed 
with it ended up triggering an Alesis D4, losing all the subtlety...
 
  (as can be heard at http://www.myspace.com/mojopin95  if anyone is interested, Ha)
 
From what I remember it booted up OK, but then, after 30-60 seconds the monitor 
went blank (black) and a horrible whine ensued. 
I switched it off and on again only to have the same thing happen, and about 
a fortnight later I confirmed it hadn't been a bad dream by repeating the process.Not being a technical over achiever that pretty much had me stumped and I
haven't trusted anyone enough to let them just rummage around inside the thing.
 I think my best bet is Patrice and buying the schematics, it would be a good starting 
point for the couple of people I trust with solder and amp meters,   & it would be 
great to have it back in the studio - even after all these years,...     
I'm not looking forward to ploughing through the manual again though :)
 
Thanks again,
Rod.                       ...unless there's a U.K. based SDX boffin ???
  

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