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Re: [Simmons Drums] Re: SDS-400 questions

2010-09-10 by jesper

bobsvitilla skrev 2010-09-09 23:55:
> Thanks for all the tips. It arrived today. Nice and minty fresh.

Great news! There are a lot of smashed up Simmons gear out there...

> doesn't look like its ever been out of the box. Every bit of printing on
> the front panel is sharp and intact. All ins and out work perfect. The
> pots are clean. A little loose in movement, but tight in rotation. It
> came with the manual, registration card, and the overlay to mark up

Cool with all the extra goodies. Certainly adds to the value if nothing 
else.

> patches. Sound completely bangin'. I take it the sesquencer in, though a
> DIN socket, has nothing to do with MIDI? This box is pure tweakers delight.

Correct, it's just where all the trig inputs are brought together if you 
want to make a cable of your own to use with a trig sequencer like the 
SDS-6 or similar.

Analogue drums synths are great!

-- 
electronically yours, jesper

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