Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Michael Buchner skrev:
> If anybody is curious now, how to get a bell and a cymbal sound out of a 
> single SDSV cymbal module: It is very easy. Take two normal pads and 
> wire them in parallel (Pins 1 and 2 of the XLRs). Solder germanium type 
> diodes (AA) between each piezo and pin 2 of the pad XLR, one of them 
> reversed. If you hit one pad, the outputted signal will have a positive 
> phase only, the other pad a negative. The effect on the SDSVs cymbal 
> module is: One of the Pads will trigger a noisy trash sound called 
> "bell", the other the eprom-based "cym". And our sequencer-based friends 
> will not notice this effect ever.

I'm keeping this in my "Simmons tip folder" for future use. But, with a 
bit of brain activity you could do this from sequencer too, you just 
have to think about phases and levels an extra minute.

Slightly OT, but still e-drumming... My E-H Crash Pad (or was it the 
Clap Trak?) was badly designed so that despite input for external 
triggering it only accepted noise as triggers 'cause it needed a 
negative flank going through zero. A small mod and it now accepts +5 as 
it's friend does. Speak of phase issues...

-- 
electronically yours, jesper

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