Simmons Clap Trap

The Clap Trap has been designed to produce authentic and repeatable ensemble handclaps at your command - it can produce other sounds such as percussive crashes and bursts of noise to give a long decay to snare drums.

The instrument assembles its characteristic sound by controllably blending a digital recording of people clapping, stored in memory, with a general background crash of white noise. The recording is approximately 1.5 seconds long, however both the clap and noise components of the sound have individual controls governing pitch and decay time. A switchable "humanizer" allows a different part of the digital recording to be outputted each time the unit is triggered, giving a random, human feel.

With a variety of possible trigger sources including footswitch, drum mic, tape track and of course, the SDS6, the clap trap is a handy little instrument, ideal for adding percussive handclaps to your music.

Digital Clap Trap flyer 1984

Knobs

With precise lathe and molding these Cliff knobs doesn't come cheap. But more than 30 years down the road they still clean up nicely and looks almost like new. Sadly caps are often missing on these knobs.

Thanks to Ed Rose in USA who stock these parts it is possible to make Digital Clap Trap look nice again. You can reach Ed through his gmail account, the Simmons list on Yahoo or send a private message in the comment section here and we can set you in contact.