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Re: [Simmons Drums] SDS 1 Issues

2008-04-17 by jesper

jimstew37 skrev:
> Thanks. I have a few EPROMs coming, via eBay, but won't be able to
> compare until I receive them, because I don't have any others of any
> sort on hand. To give an idea of the sound I'm hearing, it's a little
> like when you bump a guitar amp that has a spring reverb; sort of a
> crashing sound. It actually sounds kind of cool through an effects
> processor. I'm not quite set up for sampling and posting the sound just
> yet. Anyway, I'll have to see if I can find some other non-Simmons
> eproms to play around with!

OK, so either the eprom is corrupted or it's a bad contact as someone 
else said. We keep our fingers crossed, but I sure recognise the 
description of the sound.

My bet is still the eprom. Bad contacts more often result in dropouts IMHO.

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