Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, Thomas Heckmann
<troperecordings@...> wrote:
>
> The big difference comes in the Fairlights (I'm talking up until IIx)  
> sonic sound quality !

I had played with a Fairlight II a good few years ago now.  It had a
nice gritty character to it, something instantly recognisable.

> Yes it's 8bit, but the best you could ever get in this direction, the  
> dynamics and the uniqueness of it still blows me away !
> I own both a Fairlight IIx and a Simmons SDX and they are really hard  
> to compare. And I own a tickle me Elmo also ;-)
> One thing about the SDX - if it wasn't mentioned before - SAVE SAVE  
> SAVE ;-)
> I had many hours of sampling with the machine just to realize it hang  
> up and all was gone...

That's true of anything computer-based though ;-)

Gordon