Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

So, i just got one of those, and judging from the Digital ClapTrap I already got, thought it 
would be the bees knees. 
Turn it on, press trigger and sort of deception here: doesn't sound that good at all! 
So me thinks: maybe it's busted in some way. Anybody has one and care to compare? 
The "ensemble" section (upper): makes a burst of noises similar to hot-plugging a jack 
connector. The "ragged/tight" pot controls the spread of the noises, from "krk" to "kr-krk"
 The "crash" section triggers a decaying white noise burst. High/low pot gives filtering 
(with harsh resonance on "high" setting). 
All in all, inferior to digital clap trap IMHO.