Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

I am however getting my sds6  out of the shop 
> in the next couple days and maybe I can get some more flexability 
out 
> of the 7 whilst I have the 6 play it for me as I change one sound 
> around a bit. 

Now Graham's really trying to make us all jealous with mention of his 
SDS6 sequencer!!!

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. 

The point made about "well looked after SDSV's" is well made as I 
believe some early models had weak power supplies and noise could 
also be a problem. I was going to purchase an SDSV unit recently 
until it seemed in worse condition than first represented - three 
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. 

The consequences of a car crash and heavy medication have forced me 
to adopt a more pragmatic approach to timing and anyhow its fun to 
experiment.

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

Stephen