Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

By the way, 

we extracted a channel module, fed it with an external stabilized Power Supply connected in direct to a Small MOTU soundcard.

Without any modifications, the sound is really incredible, no noise pollution at all !!! Pure Analog Fat as Hell !
even the click I didn't like is much better.

 So it confirms that the V deserves a highend power supply & Symetric outputs...
I always felt it didn't give what it should. It's good to feel it's true & that the best still can be done.

Anyone interested ?

Best,
Patrice.





--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "Berk Aarts" <B.E.R.K@...> wrote:
>
> You have the scematics?? couldn't be that hard.
> 
> Berk
> 
> 
> 
> >-- Oorspronkelijk bericht --
> >To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com
> >From: "Jacquot" <Jacquot.Patrice@...>
> >Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 20:15:26 -0000
> >Subject: [Simmons Drums] SDSV Improvments ?
> >Reply-To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com
> >
> >
> >Hi Guys, 
> >
> >I wanted to launch a subject & inviting every people (not only but surely
> >the Gods) :-) who can feel concerned by the (professionnal or not ...) SDSV
> >use.
> >I love mine but there are some things I'd like to improve. 
> >
> >I can thank Jesper to have spoken about that Separate output resistors.
> I
> >remember having been in trouble connecting them at some point to a SPM8:2...it
> >didn't work... & I forgot about it.
> >
> >
> >I am submitting the question, to see if anyone did (or felt the need to
> )
> >improve the "V"at some point...
> > or got in touch with some units that would have been improved (like Genesis
> >customed units (or whoever) who had some techs & money to dive in the machines...)
> >Outside of any personnality cult worries... ;-)
> >
> >
> > Here is what I'd like to do on the following parameters if I had a magic
> >stick .
> >
> >> CLICK   "no saturation"
> >(I just don't like at all this saturating Click. A very nasty sound for
> me
> >! Anyway not as nice as the SDS7's one to my taste. )
> >
> >> NOISE   "a separate envelop" for it would be great (to get a short noise
> >while a long decay for the tone )
> >but probably difficult to implement to the original architecture.
> >
> >> BEND    "Bend both ways" UP & DOWN
> >Already discussed with  Franck ... ) 
> >
> >
> >> SYMETRIC Output connections
> >to get a pure signal,  fully denoised.
> >
> >
> >any other Ideas ?
> >
> >For example, I also saw  on Dave's SDSV (& I know a few German guys musthave
> >seen it ;-) a special extra pot for the chick volume on the Hihat channel
> >module.
> >
> >
> >
> >Anyway... 
> >
> >
> >Speak soon,
> >Patrice.
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