Vintage synth sightings in the Philippines

[chuck sabbath]

hi

happy stories and sad stories all is welcome...

I.

music store sa sta mesa. magbasa muna kayo before you go rushing there

early 90s siguro, basta gutarista pa ako nun e, so theres this store with lots of vintage guitar pedals, eh, roland etc mga boss din pero luma. i got an electro harmonix doctor q for like P900 but i didint have enough money for the P15000 analogs there.

there were quite a few rolands with knobs, some string machines etc. around 6 or 7 all in decent condition

i kept the fone number then when i had some money a few years later i called them hoping bumaba na yung presyo. pag tawag ko sabi nung tao na damage daw lahat ng synths nila sa baha

[chuck sabbath]

II.

i checked out this tiny music store in las pinas, stall lang nga yun e. i had a tr-606 drum machine at home so when i saw a silver box with knobs akala ko 606 na naman, so i go in and  its a tb-303!!!

so i check it out with guitar amp, tapos pinapangit ko tunog i offered P2000 with a bored look, binigay ng P2500!!!!

the sad part: after a year or so it broke it wouldnt play patterns...so tago sa baul for many years

a few years ago i needed money to get my mixer fixed for an urgent project, so i sold the 303 for parts to a guy in the netherlands for $150

whithin an hour of receiving it, he got it fixed!! it was a simple capacitor or something

the mixer was a berrynger

[KitC]

OMG!!! TB-303!!!    And you sold it?! Aaaaaarrrgghhh!!!

On another note: this is an unconfirmed sighting, but a friend let on that he apparently got a vintage EP from the well known band from the 70s. I'm not saying what kind it is but it took the name of it's invertor which begins with the letter "R". I'm trying to get the time to see his studio, which also has the CZ1000. He mentioned having a Juno or 2 but they were on the fritz... now where's that Jupiter? to be continued...

[abyssinianson]

wow..its nice to see people still value the 303. not very many people I know still know about the 303, 808 and 909 much less use it at all in their work. my 303 (along with an 808) was one of the very first synths I got when I started working in my teens. Needless to say, my dishwashing wages were all funneled for the sole purpose of buying basic gear and I had the hots for those two boxes. I was a fan of Techno and House when i first moved to the US and this was one of the first two boxes I used to make tracks via a Cakewalk sequencer back in the day. I had the Devil Fish mod done on it a few years later to give the 303 a bit more versatility.

Chuck, sayang na nag fritz yung 303 mo. Maybe you could have had the unit serviced in HK or maybe Japan, no? So, far my 303 has only had one repair job on it and it was the same as your problem: the programmed patterns wouldn't play although I could trigger them in realtime. I got mine repaired at a Roland-recommended service center in NY and I mailed them the unit for servicing.

[chuck sabbath]

so you still have yours?? with a devilfish?!? damn and an 808 pa?!?

ive sort of gotten over the loss, sort off i still have a 101 and an sh2 for my acid needs, its not the same but then again they can do a lot more than the 303

besides i dont really use the acid sound so much anymore, its kinda passe yes?

yup same problem as yours, i could still play the notes like a monosynth even sent it to roland japan no luck

[mikep]

Which reminds me, I have to check if my TR 808 still works.  I have it somewhere in the studio.  Thanks for reminding.

FWIW

[abyssinianson]

so you still have yours?? with a devilfish?!? damn and an 808 pa?!?

ive sort of gotten over the loss, sort off i still have a 101 and an sh2 for my acid needs, its not the same but then again they can do a lot more than the 303

besides i dont really use the acid sound so much anymore, its kinda passe yes?

yup same problem as yours, i could still play the notes like a monosynth even sent it to roland japan no luck

yup...i still have my 303 and my 808. The sound from these machines have their purpose so you don't really end up using them on everything that you do. However, I find that making French dance type stuff sits really well with the synthetic sounding beats of the 303 and the 808 so they ahve gotten the most use for making that type of music in recent years.

[starfugger]

naka experience na ako ng analog synth using a roland sh-101.  ang galing, real time ang controls.  i sold it for roughly 15k abroad.

[abyssinianson]

the SH-101 synths still get a lot of use in the techno, trance and house genres.

@Hazel: offtopic ito pero was the magicunan song recorded using your new Fireface 800? It sounds good!

[junig]

hmm... last year lang, ang daming analog synths dito sa amin. mostly roland juno series. i bought nga a yamaha v50 (vintage na rin ito).

[chuck sabbath]

hmm... last year lang, ang daming analog synths dito sa amin. mostly roland juno series. i bought nga a yamaha v50 (vintage na rin ito).

saan yung "amin"?

[starfugger]

i spotted a linn drum once.   

@ abyss, thanks.  yes that's one of the stuff i did last year.  mejo vintage dapat ang tunog nyan, i dunno if i got that right.  hehe. 

[abyssinianson]

@Hazel: yeah, parang vintage ang dating...like circa early 90's E-heads albums:) It has a very early 90's OPM rock sound to it. Good work!

[starfugger]

thanks abyss, that's what the client specified nga, eheads daw more or less, tunog luma   thanks.  the real challenge would be to get more modern sounds, lol. 

[ronnie james jeremy]

wow..its nice to see people still value the 303. not very many people I know still know about the 303, 808 and 909 much less use it at all in their work. my 303 (along with an 808) was one of the very first synths I got when I started working in my teens. Needless to say, my dishwashing wages were all funneled for the sole purpose of buying basic gear and I had the hots for those two boxes. I was a fan of Techno and House when i first moved to the US and this was one of the first two boxes I used to make tracks via a Cakewalk sequencer back in the day. I had the Devil Fish mod done on it a few years later to give the 303 a bit more versatility.

Chuck, sayang na nag fritz yung 303 mo. Maybe you could have had the unit serviced in HK or maybe Japan, no? So, far my 303 has only had one repair job on it and it was the same as your problem: the programmed patterns wouldn't play although I could trigger them in realtime. I got mine repaired at a Roland-recommended service center in NY and I mailed them the unit for servicing.

TB 303 Rules! "rip it up and start again (with edwyn collins scottish accent)"-- that orange juice bass line wiil be forever etch in what is left of my mind ,

once about 3 yrs ago, i saw an ukay store in Mother Ignacia just befroe IBB Plaza that sells vintage synths, with pseudo wooden panels, roland and yamaha yng mga models, with the oscillator knob thingies. now they're all gone. i wish i knew kng saan sa pier nakaka iskor ng mga vintage musical equipment, went ther last week and did not find anything music related puros high speed sewing machine

[KitC]

once about 3 yrs ago, i saw an ukay store in Mother Ignacia just befroe IBB Plaza that sells vintage synths,

  FUDGE!!! 

Ok... that does it! I hereby decree that if anyone spots any place, store, or even a person selling a vintage synth, let's post it here so that we can all rush to said area/person and haggle away. But let's not forget the secret handshake  'lest we give up too much info to the heretics... 

[junig]

hmm... last year lang, ang daming analog synths dito sa amin. mostly roland juno series. i bought nga a yamaha v50 (vintage na rin ito).

saan yung "amin"?

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