Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Hey John

That's great! Thanks for uploading. This is very useful as I have 
absolutely NO idea what the original settings on my SDS7 would sound 
like. The damn machine always breaks down about 10 mins after power 
up and never remembers any settings. This happens because everything 
in it is so loose. What makes it worse is that I spent £300 getting 
it midi'ed back in 1993 but this only made it more unreliable Lol!!! 
Your sheet will at least allow me to try out a few of the near-as-
dammit factory sounds. If I get time I will put these into a .xls (as 
you suggest) and re-post them into the newsgroup files.

BTW: The drug addled woman who sold it to me in 1992 claimed the SDS7 
belonged to either the drummer out of Whitesnake or Def Leppard. She 
couldn't remember which as she said she didn't care much for heavy 
metal! 

All the best
Andy

--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, "John hubbell" <jhubbell@...> 
wrote:
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> Hey don't give me a hard time! :)
> 
> I wrote out a few of the settings on my SDS7 that I used alot.  If 
my memory serves me correctly, they were factory settings.  I don't 
remember tweaking them much.  I wrote it out for my own use.  If I'd 
known that everyone was going to be looking at them, I might have put 
it into a spreadsheet or something.
> 
> The sheet details vertically in groups of the five cards, bass 
snare tom1, tom2, tom3.  Each block is a drum kit.  Horizontally it 
is the 15 parameter settings.  My writing didn't stay in the columns 
too well.  Apparently I never learned to color in the lines as a 
child.
> 
> Good luck with it!
> 
> John
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