Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Patrice,

> do you really know the Simmons ?

not that well I'm afraid, always loved the sound and got myself and SDS8, and an
SDS6 on its way..

> The 1st cymbal had been made for the SDSV (with the famous pyramid pad that
> you can notice on the Yes 9012 Tour), the SDS7 had some too , both were an
> Eprom technology (about the SDSV ; for HH & cymbals sounds of course not the
> analog  part ..) !

I remember seeing the module, but never the actually cymbal its-self.

> & Then the SDX with the moving Zone Intelligent   pads & a choke area to stop
> the sound... 9 Multisampled cymbals ' sounds per pad sampled 16 bits &
> 44khz....

<homer simpson mode>
Hmm, SDX.....
</homer simpson mode>

> but paul... nearly each professional Drummer has a DDrum trigger on snare &
> bass Drum & is triggering some studio snares samples or whatever ...

but not something you see a lot of bands doing, at least not live ones.
I understand the pro in the studio does, but why shouldn't small local bands?

> The other fact is that most of drummers are playing over loops now so they
> don't need triggering many sounds as we did 15 years ago where we did some
> sort of live loops... The all Drumkit 's role in the contemporary
> arrangements changed ...

I agree, the whole 'concept' of a band has changed, no-one seems to play a whole
tune and record it, they all seem to do 'bits'.. I understand the need for
perfection in the studio, but what about the music?
Maybe, I'm just getting old :-)

> By the way, I looked quickly at the Simmonssynths site , if you allow me , I
> think the SDSV was released as a basic 5 piece kit expandable to 6 or 7
> modules,
> I don't think you could buy the brain with 3 modules in it without asking a
> special order(even so )...

odd, A friend of mine bought an SDS5 with just 3 modules in, so I assumed that
was the low spec...
I'll fix that, thanks.

Paul