Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Well I'd say ...the SDS7 can definitely be a bitch to program despite its great & beautiful sound !
It requires a lot of care & attention... & Issues are legendary if you talk to the pro drummers or drumtechs back in the days.
But it has a great charm. & digging in the settings is a great fun.
 Clicking is a pain especially when you are at the end of the sound of your life & suddenly a double click occurs...End of the game you have to restart everything. But well, the more you do it the more you enter in its logic & acquires it. But for a beginner it can be hell ! 
If that memory loss occurs at the sound check you're dead !
It happened to a friend of mine, with a very known singer here,  more than 10000 people in the audience... ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG ... & the arrangments were done a lot around the Simmons then !

But I love the 7 & its crazy analog part, the grainy 8bits chips  transposition    :)
It's worthwhile redoing the setting when it loses it sounds.. & a good opportunity to understand the machine.

As often with Simmons, it brings you somewhere in between Frustration & Fascination.

P.


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 OK, bad choice of words... clicking isn't my idea of fun when there are 

units with knobs and sliders. :) And when you find broken Simmons gear 

online or spare parts for that matter, it's often SDS-7 stuff. There 

must be a reason for that.


But it's a great machine! :D


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electronically yours, jesper


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teknikfourteen skrev 2013-06-12 15:03:

> SDS7... a bitch to program??? Hmmm... in my opinion, the programming is

> actually simple enough once you get used to the procedure. (Unless it's

> the tedious process of reprogramming EVERY patch as a result of memory

> loss..) I actually enjoy tweaking and discovering its many nuances. Some

> of the better patches I came across were the result of messing about

> with random values. The "bitch" with respect to the SDS7 is the lack of

> the Memory Cartridge availability. I would kill to find one of those,

> lol. I own 3 SDS7's (2 fully loaded working and 1 non working for

> spares) and they won't be going anywhere!! :-)

>

> As for reliable, when I bought my second SDS7 it was literally dead. The

> previous owner said it was working when he had it. Upon inspection,

> there was nothing wrong with it other than the the fact that it had been

> transported a great distance.. and as we know the older SDS7's were

> plagued with loss of memory and patch info due to the cards and boards

> moving about in their slots. This particular unit is a later version

> with the "locking" slots that had been introduced to alleviate the loss

> of data problem. Nonetheless, I simply removed all the cards and front

> panel assembly, replaced the battery, cleaned and reassembled the unit

> and it's been rock solid ever since. Mind you, it hasn't left the studio

> and is powered by conditioned A/C on a UPS. The gig is a much harsher

> environment and can destroy electronics if one isn't mindful of the

> mains and power sources. (Bad power claimed the life of my Ensoniq ESQ-1

> moments before a gig many years ago.. that was fun!) Hauling a UPS to

> the gig can be the difference between taking home a working unit versus

> one with a burned out PSU or worse.

>

> Errrrr.... sorry.. what was the question again? lol...

>

> Teknik1




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