Gene
(mr_iunowhu@hotmail.com)  2007-04-08 03:42:36 59.101.125.113
What a wonderful website. Finally someone who\'s passionate about Simmons and
likes to share it. I\'m impressed with your collection. Mine only consists of
an SDS7 brain and just a bassdrum pad. In 1986 I bought the SDS800. Another
guy in the area had an SDS400 with only two pads, for some reason. The SDS800
had 3 pads and a bass pad. He rang me up to ask me if I would lend him two of
my pads for a studio session to compliment his SDS400 set. I agreed, but
regretted it when he didn\'t return the pads for quite some time. I couldn\'t
get hold of him, as I needed the pads myself for a gig. I had no other choice
then to just bring the one pad I had and play acoustically. Anyway...the great
thing about the SDS800 was, that it had a sort of a Run Down generator, with
which you could play a drum fill over one pad and it would change the pitch,
giving you the impression that you were playing a fill across several pads. I
still have the recording where you can here this long fill
comment:
Hi Gene, thanks for your kind posting!

jake
(left_hannded_drummer)  2007-04-04 13:37:39 203.45.163.80
I would do anything for a simmons drum kit

but ive never been able to get one!
comment:
I truely understand but I can\'t help you...

Francesco
(urbanspaceman@tin.it)  2007-03-27 22:47:56 87.0.208.251 home
Hi, have you a schemathics for connect this unit at synth like korg ms-20?
(it\'s possible?) the pad only change the program??? not triggering? at this
link i have uploaded a picture of pad
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/4160/simmonspadrg6.jpg

Tnx
francesco
comment: Hi Francesco,
exactly, no triggering with this pad, only program changes.
You may download the manual from this site. It is more than detailed.
Bye

Francesco
(urbanspaceman@tin.it)  2007-03-27 18:47:45 87.0.208.251 home
Hi everyone,
I have a MTM + Pad (16 pad in single box)
which is its actual appraisal?
Sorry for bad english!
comment: Hi Francesco,
the MTMs which had been sold on Ebay went for about 100-200 Euro. I guess the "16 pad in a box" is the selector pad which is supposed to change the programs 1-16 in a live situation.
For live purposes the MTM cannot cope with today\'s midi interfaces concerning dynamics and speed of signal processing. But it\'s pretty useful to connect old non-midi synthesizers like SDS5 or SDS7 to the midi world.

Gerhard Kling
(gekling@bndlg.de)  2007-03-15 14:25:10 137.250.86.155

Regatzo
(guest xs4all nl)  2007-03-02 20:50:36 213.84.72.151 home
I\'m so curious to know what happened to Dave Simmons??? Is he still doing
electronics, does he still live, does he has plans to start all over???
comment:
Hi,
this is written down in the about area: After the Simmons company had collapsed, Dave Simmons invented a training hand for manicure students and since than he runs a company together with a partner selling manicure stuff

George Carrillo
(jorgecarrillo23@hotmail.com)  2007-02-24 06:28:36 64.237.161.32 home
Ah those wonderful hexagons... that defined my childhood. "Hungry Like The Wolf"
and many other songs were defined by the Simmons sound. Add the Steinberger XL-2
bass (the black one that looked like a box and stick) and you got pure 80s
nostalgia!
BTW, about that Suitcase... so that\'s what Peter Hook of New Order plays on the
"Perfect Kiss" video! Kewl!!

I finally got to bang on Simmons drums in 2002 on a used gear store, probably an
SDS8. Ooooo yes! Couldn\'t buy em tho. No $$ then. Grrr...

Thanks for the site!

graham
(quiquebucho@hotmail.com)  2007-02-18 15:52:36 65.97.149.74
Hi! Been trolling your site for awhile. I absolutely love it! I\'m a big fan of
Simmons also! Had a lot even the SDX, but now they\'re history... What I do have
now is a turtletrap which is cool. Has anyone seen a manual for this thing?
It\'s a pretty straightforward unit, but I know how SImmona are with their
minimal buttons. I\'d like to know what all button combinations actually do!
Thanks for the site and thanks for any help anyone could give.

Rick McClain
(ramcclain@hotmail.com)  2007-02-14 04:14:22 65.43.209.195
Cool site, really brought back a lot of memories for me :-) and made me remember
that I have an SDS-5 with the cymbal module (no pads) that I\'ve been storing
for the past 20 years. Completely working, any idea of it\'s value?

Mike
(krocktoff @yahoo.com)  2007-02-06 02:32:34 67.83.65.243
Hi,do think someone could help me try to restore some factory sounds in my sds7
comment:
Hi Mike,
I haven\'t found somebody yet who has written down the factory settings.
Sorry