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Simmons SDS-V

The hexagonal pads of the 1980s

The SDS-V put hexagonal playing surfaces and an analogue drum synthesizer in front of drummers in 1981, and its pitch-swept toms are so tied to the decade that using one now is a period reference. The pads were also famously hard on wrists.

Category

  • Electronic Drums

    Complete electronic kits, the sound modules that drive them, and the standalone pads that sit alongside an acoustic set. Distinct from drum machines, which are sequenced rather than struck.

Made by

  • Simmons

    Dave Simmons built the first commercially successful electronic drum kit in Britain at the end of the 1970s, and the hexagonal pads and synthetic tom sound of the SDS-V are inseparable from 1980s production. The original company failed in 1994; the name now appears on budget electronic kits.

Represents

  • Simmons

    Dave Simmons built the first commercially successful electronic drum kit in Britain at the end of the 1970s, and the hexagonal pads and synthetic tom sound of the SDS-V are inseparable from 1980s production. The original company failed in 1994; the name now appears on budget electronic kits.

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