MATRIXSYNTH: Roland SH-101


Thursday, January 18, 2007

Roland SH-101

Title link takes you to shots pulled via this auction.

7 comments:

  1. What a beaut. Which SH-101 color really IS the rarest? Pretty sure I've seen auctions of all 3 colors making that claim.

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  2. by all accounts red is definitely more rare than blue. My favorite is blue. I have mint grey one (and I mean mint! - it looks and feels like I just bought it last week). I'd love to get a blue one but I'd hate to sell my grey one (not a bad dilema)

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  3. the thing that sucks about SH-101's is the battery cover. When they tooled the thing it never came out right - but someone at Roland let it go probably because they couldn't modify the tool or redo the part because of lack of time and/or money...so the battery cover doesn't fit, it never fully clicks in right and sticks out a little. Take a close look at any and all pics. That's also part of the reason you see a lot of them with broken tabs where the cover is supposed to snap into the top fo the unit...

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  4. My battery cover clicks in just fine.
    Guess yours just aren't so mint. ;-)

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  5. are you kidding or serious? I've owned two and repaired three of them - same problem on all of them. The battery cover will click but it does not fit properly, it sticks out at the top. Unless they made a second tool and fixed the problem on later production ( I highly doubt it siince they only made it for a couple years).

    Guess yours just aren't so mint. ;-)
    nice one! just for that I'm going to have to take a bunch of hi-res pics and post it on matrix ;)

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  6. I was the original owner of a red 101. It also had the battery cover problem. Another common problem with the 101 is the bender breaking.

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  7. where can you get a replacement bender?
    Mine is broken! (snapped off-still works tho)

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