Comments on: How Healthy Are Your Vintage Synthesizers?

By: lynas

lynas — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:48:09 +0000

EDIT: Sorry, those links should be: Wonderful Recording Studios and Vintage Synth Explorer.

By: lynas

lynas — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:45:42 +0000

Good info. In my opinion, it's worthwhile to have your vintage gear taken care of by a professional. I work at Wonderful Recording Studios, and we use Karl at Main Drag Music in Williamsburg or Armen at Armen's Music in Manhattan to care for our eleven vintage analog synths (MemoryMoog, Prophet 10, Jupiter 4 and 8, Gleeman Pentaphonic, OSCar, Elka Synthex, Oberheim OBX, etc). One of the great things about these synths, though, is the fact that they're not as perfect and dry sounding as the digital imitations! Vintage Synth Explorer is a great resource for info about all these bad boys!

By: BrekanArts

BrekanArts — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:20:49 +0000

THIS IS THE CORRECT LINK TO EPS 16+ Digital Sampling Workstation (with synthising and midi sequencing) too.... Thats kinds embarasing. :o

By: BrekanArts

BrekanArts — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:17:20 +0000

Mine are great shape. But I keep them cased and open them up and clean them periodically to prevent untimely component failure. Naturally the Yamaha DX7 and Roland Juno 80 get regular play and thank heavens still get factory authorized serviced. My Kawai K1 is still one of my favorites and the EnsoniqSQs are still pretty far out too. I've been getting away from samplers (Ensoniq EPS 16 Plus Digital Sampling Workstation for Sale) and returning to analog, FM and PCM synths because the real thing sounds better and can be manipulated faster than trying to manipulate samples of your "favorite layered patch filter".

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By: Garde

Garde — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 03:04:03 +0000

ED: Can you provide contact details for the guy in Sydney??

By: aniello

aniello — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:18:38 +0000

that is a great article. I have a korg polysix and 2 years ago it was totally repaired cause battery acid lacking :/ It sonuded very good, but now it’s gone crazy! is it probablly due to old capacitors or cmos chip?….

By: John’s Place » Electronic Music — Not Just the Data, But the Instruments Are At Risk!

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:55:49 +0000

[...] Although I don’t own any vintage synthesizers, a few days I read this article regarding what can happen to vintage synthesizers over time with quite a bit of concern. There is no shortage of what manner of evil can befall these instruments from the 1970’s and 80’s. In some cases, replacement parts are only available by cannibalizing other instruments, and we can obviously only do that for so long. [...]

By: robin parry

robin parry — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 00:05:51 +0000

one other,
for Yamaha CS 50/60’s the power supply comes loose when u move it!!!! mine killed one slider, which the repair tech managed to get working, only 75% of its range. All the pots and switches are unique, no longer made and no modern counterpart