Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Hey Jesper,
Sounds like you have a nice setup!  I am American, I live in Chicago.  Most 
of my synths are used as performance pieces (by that I mean we play them as 
instruments in our studio and live with a real drummer).  I'm looking to 
take my drum machine/sequencer driven set up out live with us, without it 
being a huge hassle for us(me!) and the sound guy...

I wasn't aware that Simmons made rack ears for the SDS-8.  I'll have to do 
some more digging.  I was thinking some kind of pull-out tray/drawer would 
be perfect for space, and tweaking when needed!

Jim

> Hi Jim!
> 
>> Hello Group,
>> My name is Jim, I am the proud owner of an SDS-8.  I trigger this fine
>> brain from an old Oberheim Stretch DX.  I am not a drummer, but this
>> piece of gear fits in perfectly with my drum machine/synth
>> collection.
> 
> Drum synths kicks ass... I recently sold my SDS-8, but the SDS-V is one
> of the gems of my studio... On the drum flank I have the SDS-V, 2 x
> SDS-1, TMI, Tama TS-305 and TAM-500 and a Pearl Syncussion SY-1... And
> a heavily modified TR-606...
> 
>> The OBDX is the boss, the audio outs of individual drums I choose
>> trigger the Simmons.  The rest of the chain runs from the MIDI out of
>> the OBDX to a Frostwave sequencer, Moogerfooger cp-251 and onto a
>> Realistic MG-1, a Moog Prodigy, an Octave Cat, and a Moog Satellite.
> 
> Yes! A Cat - just bought one - wicked filter! =) But I can easily see
> you're american... Oberheim, Moog, Octave, Big Briar etc. Good to see
> an old british unit on the drum side though...
> 
>> I'm looking to make my set up a little more portable by racking some
>> of the gear.  Has anyone ever rack-mounted their sds-8?  I'm thinking
>> a slide out type drawer would work perfectly, once sized up and
>> whatnot, but I wanted to see if any of you guys had any suggestions.
> 
> But weren't there rack ears available. i think I've seen that
> somewhere. One thing when putting ears on machines like that is that
> the ins are often on the "top" after rack mounting. Not very sensible
> (my TS-305 has that for example)... I like rack stuff, but the most
> important thing is to reach everything otherwise you end up using the
> same bass drum sound 'cause you're too lazy to tweak that old
> drummer... ;)
> 
> electronically yours, jesper