Models
4 models
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Simmons SDS-V
The hexagonal pads of the 1980s
Electronic drums · United Kingdom
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.
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Premier Royal Ace
The British professional snare of the 1960s
Percussion · United Kingdom
The Royal Ace was Premier's top wood snare, with a thin shell and the company's own strainer, and it is what a great deal of British beat and rock was recorded on before American drums became easy to buy.
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Simmons SDS 1000
Analogue drum synthesis in a rack
Drum machine · United Kingdom
The SDS 1000 put the Simmons voice — pitch-swept toms, that hollow snare — into an affordable module driven by pads or MIDI, and carried the sound past the end of the hexagonal kits.
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Simmons SDS-8
The affordable Simmons
Electronic drums · United Kingdom
The SDS-8 brought the hexagonal pad and analogue voicing to a price home studios could reach, and is the Simmons most often found today.