Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

> small studio. I don't think I could ever part with my V now... I've
> spent all this time getting an actual full set - cymbal chinese hat
> pads! - and plus the pads have 1/4" jacks as well so I can use them
> to fire my v-drum brain if I so choose.

I recognise the name... Was it you that beat me among others on the ones
recently available on Ebay?

electronically yours, jesper - must fix my broken hihat card... :(

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Jesper, 


Afraid it wasn't me who got that one. My friend from France was 
selling the you mention I believe. I got mine about a year ago. I 
bought it knowing it wasn't working. One year and $100 later it's 
been fixed. In fact, the guy called me today and said it's ready. The 
parts in those things are really hard to come by as you might guess.
I'm excited to get it going. I'm gonna try syncing it up with all my 
other crap with the click output from my drumkat. I'm not sure how 
well it will work that way 'tho. We'll see.

Graham





--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper" <jesper@b...> wrote:
> > small studio. I don't think I could ever part with my V now... 
I've
> > spent all this time getting an actual full set - cymbal chinese 
hat
> > pads! - and plus the pads have 1/4" jacks as well so I can use 
them
> > to fire my v-drum brain if I so choose.
> 
> I recognise the name... Was it you that beat me among others on the 
ones

> recently available on Ebay?
> 
> electronically yours, jesper - must fix my broken hihat card... :(
> 
> http://www.bolina.hsb.se/hsidor/jesper
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> I've just purchased a Tama TSQ-1000 6 output drum sequencer from
> Patrice (who should be joining us shortly) but I do crave an SDS6
> (both from a collecting point of view and for its usability) but
> they're pretty scarse here in the UK.

Three words for you: ebay.de and ends today!

> missing knobs (Jesper do you have that source of knobs in Sweden?)
> and a non-funcioning slot which could have simply been down to those
> funky plastic locators or something more ominous.

Yes, I'm looking into the exact figures again since I've had many Q's about
it. They're expensive, but I can tell you this - I bought a few for one of
the two spare units I had (one belonging to Lasse on this list now) and
there is no way of telling which is the new knobs (apart from the fact that
the originals might have been scratched).

> On another note has anyone any experience of changing the power
> supplies in any of the earlier SDS Simmons units?

Lasse is your man, he's changed from 110 volts to 220...

electronically yours, jesper

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Good luck then!

But you are registered as quiquebucho, aren't you? Or am I imagining that
I've seen you on Ebay?

electronically yours, jesper

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----- Original Message -----
From: "quiquebucho" <quiquebucho@...>
To: <Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 4:38 AM
Subject: [Simmons Drums] Re: The gear.....Oooohhh ..... feel that Simmons
quality

> Jesper,
>
>
> Afraid it wasn't me who got that one. My friend from France was
> selling the you mention I believe. I got mine about a year ago. I
> bought it knowing it wasn't working. One year and $100 later it's
> been fixed. In fact, the guy called me today and said it's ready. The
> parts in those things are really hard to come by as you might guess.
> I'm excited to get it going. I'm gonna try syncing it up with all my
> other crap with the click output from my drumkat. I'm not sure how
> well it will work that way 'tho. We'll see.
>
> Graham
>
>
>
>
>
> --- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper" <jesper@b...> wrote:
> > > small studio. I don't think I could ever part with my V now...
> I've
> > > spent all this time getting an actual full set - cymbal chinese
> hat
> > > pads! - and plus the pads have 1/4" jacks as well so I can use
> them
> > > to fire my v-drum brain if I so choose.
> >
> > I recognise the name... Was it you that beat me among others on the
> ones
> > recently available on Ebay?
> >
> > electronically yours, jesper - must fix my broken hihat card... :(
> >
> > http://www.bolina.hsb.se/hsidor/jesper
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"Three words for you: ebay.de and ends today!" That's FOUR!!!

Thanks for the prompt Jesper regarding the SDS6. It went for €917.00 
£630.00 which suggests that wallets are well stocked in Germany. A 
new Ananlogue Solutions Oberkorn sequencer (without the worries of 
dry solder joints) is £599.00 including casing. My desire to collect 
Simmons equipment does not stretch to overpaying for equipment - but 
then perhaps I'm a skinflint. The relative scarsity of SDS6's within 
Europe certainly plays a part FWIW.

"missing knobs (Jesper do you have that source of knobs in Sweden?)
and a non-funcioning slot which could have simply been down to those
funky plastic locators or something more ominous.
 
"Yes, I'm looking into the exact figures again since I've had many 
Q's about it." 

On another note has anyone any experience of changing the power
supplies in any of the earlier SDS Simmons units?
"Lasse is your man", 

Lasse come home - joke smile plllease ......OK a BAD joke I admit. 
I've missed Lasse's contributions. It's really a general enquiry as I 
noticed that the power supply in the SDS7 is silicon protected - 
though the PSU in my unit is gleaming (so it's bound to fail now I've 
said that). I was impressed with how servicable the SDS7 unit was 
when I stripped mine for a through cleaning adjustment of the 
selector unit and to replace the CMOS battery

Stephen

----- Original Message -----

From: "sevebc" <seve.bc@...>
To: <Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 11:54 PM
Subject: [Simmons Drums] Simmons prices and quality

Jesper:
>>"Three words for you: ebay.de and ends today!" That's FOUR!!!

Stephen:
>Thanks for the prompt Jesper regarding the SDS6. It went for ?917.00
>\ufffd630.00 which suggests that wallets are well stocked in Germany. A
>new Ananlogue Solutions Oberkorn sequencer (without the worries of
>dry solder joints) is \ufffd599.00 including casing. My desire to collect
>Simmons equipment does not stretch to overpaying for equipment - but
>then perhaps I'm a skinflint. The relative scarsity of SDS6's within
>Europe certainly plays a part FWIW.

Does anyone know how many SDS-6\ufffds where made ?
Mine is serialnumber 62.

I don\ufffdt think the oberkorn is really compareable to the SDS-6, mainly due to
the lack of visual confirmation.

Stephen:
>>>On another note has anyone any experience of changing the power
>>>supplies in any of the earlier SDS Simmons units?

>>"Lasse is your man",

>Lasse come home - joke smile plllease ......OK a BAD joke I admit.

Hehe.....

>I've missed Lasse's contributions. It's really a general enquiry as I
>noticed that the power supply in the SDS7 is silicon protected -
>though the PSU in my unit is gleaming (so it's bound to fail now I've
>said that). I was impressed with how servicable the SDS7 unit was
>when I stripped mine for a through cleaning adjustment of the
>selector unit and to replace the CMOS battery

I changed the main transformer on my SDS-V that I bought from the US. I used
an 80VA torodial transformer that should be relatively easy to source in the
UK. Also, don\ufffdt forget to change the main fuse.

Other parts are just standard 7815 and 7915 regulators, diodes and
capacitors.

I suspect the SDS-7 power supply is a bit more complicated than the SDS-V\ufffds.

Best,

LJ a.k.a Lasse but my real name is Lars. Also, I\ufffdve been known to call
myself Waveterm !

http://hem.spray.se/ppgwave/studiopics.html

> "Three words for you: ebay.de and ends today!" That's FOUR!!!

.de is not a word... and the "and" is there to point out the words... =)

> Thanks for the prompt Jesper regarding the SDS6. It went for ?917.00

I saw that (was bidding on the DX programmer from the same seller). Scary
how expensive it went!

> \ufffd630.00 which suggests that wallets are well stocked in Germany. A
new Ananlogue Solutions Oberkorn sequencer (without the worries of
dry solder joints) is \ufffd599.00 including casing. My desire to collect
Simmons equipment does not stretch to overpaying for equipment - but
then perhaps I'm a skinflint. The relative scarsity of SDS6's within
Europe certainly plays a part FWIW.

I would rather own a SDS-6, but I run all my drumbrains from the Kadiports
of my Pro-4's...

> Lasse come home - joke smile plllease ......OK a BAD joke I admit.
I've missed Lasse's contributions. It's really a general enquiry as I
noticed that the power supply in the SDS7 is silicon protected -

He's been into the SDS-V. That's a fairly simple operation. Don't know about
the SDS-7...

electronically yours, jesper

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Hi all

I apparently gave the wrong impression. I would MUCH rather have a 
Simmon SDS6 than an Oberkorn sequencer. However, I was really getting 
at the heavy-weight price E 917.00 £630.00 that Ebay.de punters
are prepared to go to. I feel it has much to do with the auction 
format (once in, reluctant to drop out) and the way ebay is 
structured.

To keep this relevant to Simmons I worry that Simmons products will 
become the preserve of non-musical collectors who will package them 
up rather than using them MUSICALLY. I also get a little ticked off 
with 'the "hack" Pro view' that the Simmons sound is jaded, trite, 
passe', unfashionable etc because as the SDS7 can demonstate the 
sounds are really as flexible powerful and dirty as you want to mix, 
process or crunch them.

And yes the SDS7 is both ananlogue and digital but the overall 
consensus seemed to be that the analogue SDS5 has more WHUMP than the 
analogue section of the SDS7 ...

Stephen