Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Susie skrev:
> I picked it up for £20 a while back, knowing that it was broken, 
> although the guy had had it working previously. I've only just got round 
> to rebuilding the power supply.

You're going to give the single men on the list a heart attack by saying 
such things. *haha*

> Whereas it was silent when I got it, it now produces some very faint 
> organ/synth/bass sounds on channels 1-3. 4-6 are still dead. Headphones 
> have the same faint sound that appears on the outs, so it's not just 
> dirty contacts.

The output amplifiers? Volume settings?

> I'm not sure my PSU rebuild was responsible for this murmur of life as 
> it appears random as to whether you get a noise from it. Switch it off 
> and on and it might be dead. Recycle it again and you might get some sound.

Sounds like the battery would be a good start. A dead one often gives 
random patches. (this _can_ be good, I've thought about a mod for my 
OSCar to do the same - it can create the most outworldly effects.)

> It appears to program OK - the OS boots and all the switches and knobs 
> seem OK, but as it's so quiet it's hard to tell.
> 
> Anyone any ideas? It would seem that the tricky digital stuff is 
> working, so I'm hoping it's just the output stages that maybe have a 
> duff capacitor or three.
> 
> Or is that the battery has died and zeroed the volume on the channels? 
> (I haven't figured out the programming yet)

I'd start with the software. Learn to programmed a lame sound with 
maximum volume before you keep searching for problems that might not 
even be problems. That is what I'd do...

> Oh what fun!

Well, I can think of funnier things to do. Playing it for example. :)

-- 
electronically yours, jesper

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