Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

> eproms sounds ... You can normally save your kits.
> Try to check your LITHIUM BATTERY, it could be that...If it's flat 
> you can't keep what you're saving when you turn off the brain...



Well how do I check the Lithium Battery? What do you mean if its 
flat?  I with see but I dont know how.

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "angeyoda" 
<Patrice.Jacquot@l...> wrote:
> Hi Jesper & Jeff,
> You_ can definitely memorise what you do with the SDS9 ; the Toms 
are 
> analog but the BassDrum, SnareDru & the Rim channel are some 
digital 
> eproms sounds ... You can normally save your kits.
> Try to check your LITHIUM BATTERY, it could be that...If it's flat 
> you can't keep what you're saving when you turn off the brain...
> Hope it helps !
> CU!
> Patrice.
> PS; about the D4 it depends what you wanna do with it...It will be 
> more versatile than the SDS9 but a lot more "less analog" & so 
warm & 
> punchy, the SDS9 have some terrific ballsy TomTOm sounds !!!
> 
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> --- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "Jesper" <jesper@b...> wrote:
> > Hi Jeff & welcome to this bunch of crazy bastards dwelling in 
the 
> past! =)
> > 
> > > Hi my name is Jeff.  I am 15 years old and my dad introduced 
me to
> > > Simmons drums.
> > 
> > That's a cool dad! Mine likes jazz... :(
> > 
> > > I have been watching ebay and reading your posts
> > > here on this site and I have learned alot about these drums.  
He
> > > finally bought me my own set of SDS9's.  I have a few 
questions 
> over
> > > these drums.
> > >
> > > First off does anyone know if the Alesis D4 would be a better 
> brain
> > > than my old broken SDS9 brain.
> > 
> > Wrong list for that Q. NO! Offcourse not, not if it's the 
Simmons 
> sound
> > you're after...
> > 
> > > I love the sounds I get from my SDS9
> > > brain but the brain must be broken because I can not save my 
kits
> > 
> > Welcome to the world of analogue sound. The knobs are part of 
the 
> sound
> > chain. There are NO memories on these old units so it's NOT 
broken! 
> Digital
> > machines have memories 'cause their knobs send messages, they 
> aren't part of
> > the message... See what I mean? Some analogue kits have memories 
> but then
> > they involve scanning the knob positions etc. AFAIK (but I may 
be 
> wrong,
> > being a SDS-5 user) the SDS-9 is fully analogue...
> > 
> > > that I make and when I hit my bass drum it makes very little 
to no
> > > noise.  I want a new brain anyways because I want to add 
another 
> tom
> > > pad.
> > 
> > If it's dull and weak, just try tweaking. It's often the 
problem. 
> Analogue
> > bass drums often sound dull. But yes, offcourse it might be 
broken 
> as well.
> > I cannot answer that from across the Atlantic...
> > 
> > Good luck with the drumming and stick with the best - Simmons!
> > 
> > 
> > electronically yours, jesper (Sweden)
> > 
> > http://www.bolina.hsb.se/hsidor/jesper
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