Not the best shots of either but you don't see these come up often.ARP Quadra via this auction.
OSCar via this auction.
Sunday, September 02, 2007
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WOW, a Oscar for as much as a L.A.M.M. memorymoog costs...........good luck with that!!
ReplyDeleteanother item priced for collectors, out of reach for working musicians (and i do use the term lightly). i imagine a future world with rooms full of unplayed, unused vintage synths while creative synthesists are forced to use virtual versions of instruments, but then again, if you're truly creative you don't need hyped brand name sh*t to make things happen.
ReplyDeleteif a synth is left in a museum, unplayed by a musician, does it make a sound? Does it have any worth?
The OSCar is a cheaply made unreliable POS with a horrible UI. Don't fall for the hype.
ReplyDeleteI love how people always whine how vintage synths are out of the price range of "working musicians". This is crap. Working musicians use the tools at hand to get the job done. These days that's usually a computer or DSP based synth that affords them instant recall and a smidgin of reliability. Even if "working musicians" could purchase memorymoogs, OSCars, and ARP 2600s for $500 they wouldn't be able to afford the downtime and upkeep. A good tech is worth at least $50/hr, many $75+/hr. And what's the delay in the studio or loss of a gig worth when the machine fails? There's a reason big acts are all digital and have three of everything.
ReplyDelete$3500 for an OSCar is ridiculous. This guy must be insane. Who would pay that much for such a cheaply made digital synth. When dod all the hype about this synth even start? I remember not too long ago these were considered absolute crap and now they are somehow sought after. The pnly thing that I can think of is that rich collectors are buying them, becuase I can't imagine that a musician would actually want one of these other than to say they have one.
ReplyDeleteI'm a working musician. As far as "tools at hand" go, certain vintage synths are indispensable, and I would pay several times market value for them. I don't know where these fabled collectors are... everyone I know with impressive synth collections actually uses them to make a living. It seems the knuckle-headed Wall Street folks go more for guitars.
ReplyDeleteThat said, the Oscar is a thin-sounding, nerf-sided footnote of a keyboard that should collect dust on top of a Yamaha GS-2.
But, hey, the American Dollar is in the toilet. The asking price might not be a big deal to someone out there.
About a year ago my OSCar sat at AnalogueHaven for 4 months at $2000 with no buyers. I finlly accepted $1800 to get rid of it. I'll freak if these things start being worth $3000. But, it is a supremely unique synth and has an amazing filter so there's no figuring why it's not up the the 6K's with the Synton Syrinx now.
ReplyDeletebecause...of all the reasons listed above, cheaply made and thin sounding digital synth, be glad you got what you did for it.
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