Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Hi, Jesper.
You wrote:  "And not the brain - shame on you! ;)"

Well, with no MIDI it was kind of just in the way.

"please let me know how that open/closed works. Same wiring as the
other?"

I have the center of the stereo pad trigger the closed hi-hat and the
edge trigger the open hi-hat.  It works fairly well once the
sensitivity is adjusted properly.  I use a Roland R8M for most of my
drum sounds and you can set the open hi-hat sound to shut off when you
trigger the closed sound to emulate a real hi-hat.  The pedal of the
hi-hat is usually triggered by one of the DW pedal triggers, unless I
use it as a second kick.  The snare/rim is a little more problematic,
since, of course, we would naturally hit the snare drum a bit harder. 
I very often get ghost triggers from the rim sound that have to be
erased on the MIDI tracks.

"Have you still got the harder surfaced pads around? For sale? I want
the original ones. I have a genuine bass pad, but my other pads are the
SDS-8 ones."

I use the pads, I just replaced the tops.  Simmons made inserts of the
soft surfaces to replace the hard ones.  I still have the hexagonal
hard surface layers, but I don't know what good they would be to
anyone.  The old kick still has the hard surface, I don't think they
ever made a replacement for that one.

Michael

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