electronic drums – Preservation Sound https://www.preservationsound.com information and ideas about audio history Sun, 01 Dec 2013 23:30:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Electronic Drums of the 1980s https://www.preservationsound.com/electronic-drums-of-the-1980s/ https://www.preservationsound.com/electronic-drums-of-the-1980s/#comments Mon, 02 Dec 2013 11:18:55 +0000 http://www.preservationsound.com/?p=7630 Simmons_SDS8_1984Vintage drum machines, AKA beatboxes, seem to gain value with no end in sight.  When I started buying gear heavily around 2000 to aid my composing work, TR808s seemed outrageously expensive at $800-$1000.  That’s a good laugh, ain’t it; they are now trading in the $3K – $4k range.  Even modest TR606s, CR8000s, Korg KR-55s, etc., are crazy expensive.  The same can’t be said for electronic drum kits of that era.  I’ve had some old Yamaha electro drums in my basement for a year and i literally can’t give em away.  For a brief while, tho, back round 30 years ago, Electronic Drums seemed like maybe the future.  Here’s a quick survey of what that future looked like.

Simmons_ClapTrap_1984 Simmons_SDS7_1984 Tama_TechStar_1984 MPC_Drums_1984 Pearl_SyncussionX_1986 Simmons_1985above: Simmons ClapTrap, SDS7, Tama TechStar, MPC (endorsed by Bernard Purdie!!!!) Pearl SynCussionX, and Simmons SDS8 (top)

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