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500 bucks for a Minisynth Mk I? The seller must be kidding... 50-100 bucks is more like it.
ReplyDeleteUnfair anonymous comment!!! ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnyways, I haven't ever seen one come up for sale. No eBay history that would indicate that it's that common to go for $100.
(i was the first anomymous - will get an alias any day now ;-)
ReplyDeleteTo be fair i have never seen a mk I be sold, but the mk II has been sold, off e-bay, for around 100 euros the two times i've seen it go the last five years... and i bought mine for a song... litterally ;-)
I helped a guitarist/friend of mine with a couple of chord progressions in a song of his and he gave me the EH Mini as thanks - now is that a nice story or what?
I have seen the only EHX online some years ago at the VEMIA auction for something like 200-300 GBP IIRC, it was the equivalence of maybe 650 CHF.
ReplyDeleteI got mine in Italy in 1999 for 10000 Lira, worth about 100 CHF, that was before the EURO was introduced ;-)
You can see mine pictured on the Swiss Synthmeeting shots blogged here recently.
I have scans of the user manual and the schematics around, just in case you may need it...
Georg.
I played one of these things back in the day. There's a reason why they are rare... they were very cheaply built, and flimsy. It does have a killer filter, I'll admit that; on a bass patch it's the next best thing to a Taurus. But the patching and routing options are sparse.
ReplyDeleteAnd man, are they flimsy. The one I played (it belonged to the guitarist in the band I was in) had a cardboard bottom panel! The touchpad keyboard was so gravelly that if I was going to play a long drone (which was about the only thing I used it for) I first keyed the note with the main level turned off at the mixer, and listened to it in headphones and wiggled my finger around until I got a steady note. Then I brought it up at the mixer.
Buy it if it looks interesting... but don't buy it with the expectation that it is going to be a useful instrument.
Good one synthbaron. That was pretty funny. : ) For any Seinfeld fans, I just had the image of "My wallet's stolen! My wallets stolen! Somebody stole my wallet! Unfair anonymous comment!"
ReplyDeleteThese do sell for decent money. I have been using EH stuff since it was new and I had the first site on the net devoted to the company,
ReplyDeleteThe "mk 2," had a ribbon control and echo.
I always think that if something is shitty looking (like the keys on this keyboard) one has to wonder about it's over all condition.
They do sound good. I used one on a track recently and I can say that the actual sound quality stands up.