Synhouse has customers in 42 countries.
Synhouse ships to your country and has since before eBay existed.
If you are looking at a small/normal item in the Synhouse eBay listings
and seeing no shipping options to your area or seeing a notice that
says the seller doesn't ship to your address, this is incorrect. I've
been shipping to Australia, England, etc. since 1990, five years before
eBay even existed, and eBay has deleted ALL the shipping options and
prices I've spent many hours setting up, in order to enable eBay
International Shipping, and then tells people in the most commonly
shipped to countries that shipping is not available there. This is fake
and idiotic; eBay had already been shipping there with the eBay Global
Shipping Program for a few years, now says they don't with eBay
International Shipping AND deleted my own shipping options without my
permission or knowledge, when it could have and should have been left
in place as an option because at least it WORKS and eBay doesn't know
what they are doing.
This goes WAY back to 2017 with people in New Zealand (one of the most
commonly shipped to Synhouse countries) telling me that I don't ship
there, and 1) multiple calls to eBay didn't solve it, 2) they sometimes
said they solved it but didn't, and 3) said "Uhm, wait 24 hours and it
will be working.", which is how eBay gets you off the phone. And I
could never get that New Zealand problem solved. The new problem since
early 2023 is eBay deleting my own shipping options in order to put
theirs in, then theirs tells people no, the seller doesn't ship there,
but I CAN manually set up a shipping method (usually with Synhouse it's
one price each for USA, Canada, Asia/Australia, and the rest of the
world.
Now I'm getting messages like these:
5/16/2023: Hi, Wondering how much shipping would be to Canada, postal
code T2N 2P7. Thanks!
Can you enable the ebay international shipping option for me? I am very
interested.
1/1/2024: Hi there can you post to London uk and how much would postage
be?
Hi how much would postage be to London England
Thanks for your reply. Im trying to check out but im get the message
saying seller doesn't ship to your address. Please advise as i really
need the new faceplate.
1/30/2024: Hello synhouse, I have a T8 and would like to buy your
Optical-Emitter-Set just to make sure to have it in the future. Is
there a reason you don't ship to Germany?
If you see that any small/normal Synhouse item does not ship to
you/your area, this is FAKE and wrong, please send an eBay message to
tell me and I can manually enter shipping to your area AGAIN.
Sorry for this incompetent platform I've been struggling with for 25
years now...
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---DRUM MACHINE NOT INCLUDED---
The drum machine shown in the photos is for display purposes only and
is not included. No drum machine is for sale here. Nobody sells
Drumulators for $49 and it's sad how many times I've had to tell people
that. This item is marked "new" because it is a newly manufactured
overlay and often shows multiple items available because many are in
stock. A 37 year old drum machine would not be marked "new" with $15
shipping and two in stock. Have some sense. I shouldn't even have to
say this, but it's come up five times in six months, and yes, I kept
the money.
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Completely renew the control panel of your E-mu Drumulator and make it
look just like your E-mu SP1200 sitting right next to it with this
brand new overlay from Synhouse, manufactured of the highest quality
polycarbonate and adhesive with crystal clear printing and brilliant
colors.
It is properly made of a sandy-textured polycarbonate substrate
material, with die-cut holes for the buttons, sliders, and LCD, and has
the correct seamless textured clear windows over the LEDs. It is
correct construction details like this that other previous sellers have
not had.
The E-mu Drumulator never HAD an overlay on it; what it had was all the
control markings silkscreened directly onto the gray painted plastic in
white, if it was never used it might still look great, but if it was
used, those panel markings are worn off in many areas, and the whole
panel has wear, discoloration, and a shiny, sweaty, worn-out look.
This new SP1200 style overlay for the Drumulator has ALL style
characteristics of the SP1200 in it, but worded for the Drumulator, and
it is very, very precisely die-cut to fit EXACTLY over all the controls
and cover the old white letters and white border of the Drumulator
panel.
ALL of the style characteristics of the SP1200 are in this, from the
exact same colors, lettering styles, and logos, to the seamless
textured clear windows over the LEDs and precisely undersized holes for
the function buttons.
E-mu did the 1984 Emulator II and 1985 SP-12 overlays with cutouts
larger than the buttons themselves, so that you can see the entire
button casing down in there, but reduced the size of those holes for
the later machines, the 1987-1989 gray SP1200, the 1990-1991 gray
SP1200, and the 90s black SP1200 reissue (yes, there are three SLIGHTLY
different SP1200 overlays used between 1987 and 1998, not just one or
two), so that only the moving button cap comes up through the faceplate
overlay, this gives the control panel a whole new look. If I had to
guess why they did it, I'd say it was partially to give it a more
modern, graphics-based look and partially to block the gap between the
button casing and the button cap to keep dirt and debris out of the
switches [which aren't very reliable to start with and all the dirt
just makes it worse].
Three things to point out about what you see in the photos:
One, if the overlay looks like it isn't stuck down very well, it's
because it's not stuck down at all; It's not even peeled, the slider
cap and knobs were pulled off an old Drumulator in very rough condition
and the new overlay was set down on top of it. All the Synhouse
overlays are a very thick 15 mil polycarbonate material, so just the
weight of itself holds it down very flat.
Number two, as such, the clear windows for the 7 LEDs still have the
white paper backing showing through because it hasn't been peeled yet,
making those windows look white in the photos, but it won't look like
that on your machine, they will look darker and of course the red of
the LED will come through when the LEDs are illuminated.
Number three, the 7 old LEDs stick up through the plastic chassis
normally, because they are soldered into the main board with several
millimeters of space between the base of the LED and the board, so in
order to make this work with the amazing detail of the SP1200-style
clear LED windows, those 7 LEDs need to be pushed back down closer to
the board. It isn't difficult and you don't even have to remove that
PCB, with the chassis/PCB assembly upside down, just hold your
fingertip tightly against the dome of the LED from below while you heat
up those two LED leads with a soldering iron above, and they will move
down without bending, cutting, or removing anything (I moved all 7 of
the LEDs for the purposes of those photos in less than five minutes
with a $1.50 soldering iron). But if you are a bit of a tweaker and
your Drumulator needs a little work anyway, you might choose to replace
those seven LEDs with new ones to improve the brightness; LEDs are like
bugs in amber, it gets darker and darker over the years, and old 70s
and 80s LEDs weren't very good, they had all turned dark by the
mid-90s, but the red LEDs purchased in 1999 for the Synhouse
manufactured products (Synhouse pocket boxes and Synhouse MIDIJACKs)
are still light and clear 20+ years later in 2019. But please control
all urges to put blue or white LEDs in there, it looks stupid when 70s
and 80s instruments are "enhanced" with those new LED colors, those are
the musical equivalent of a kazoo-sounding 6-inch diameter tailpipe on
a Honda Civic.
One extra detail in the relatively long (8 months and 29 days, because
I had to work on other past due projects for 8 months in the middle,
would have been about six weeks including manufacturing time if I had
worked straight through) chronology of this exacting project is that it
was meant to be easier to install by just having 7 die-cut holes for
the LEDs like an Emulator II or SP-12, and all the artwork, files,
silkscreens, and die-cutting tools were made that way. This is
considerable overhead, the CNC-machined die-cutting tool is
approximately 150 pounds and a different silkscreen is required for
each color, the SP1200 has five colors, so five silkscreens are needed,
and one more, these aren't the small T-shirt shop hand-sized
silkscreens that every single one of the other drum machine/synthesizer
overlay sellers (including a lot of out-of-business ex-competitors),
Synhouse overlays are the only ones ever made in a factory with
automated screening equipment, these systems require large silkscreen
frames and large batches of the custom colors of very, very expensive
2-part epoxy inks (2-part means it cures and what's unused is trash by
the next day), so the silkscreens are costly. But when the sample
production run was done and I finally had it to look at in real life
and fit onto a Drumulator, and not just on the screen in the
engineering software, I saw those 6 millimeter LED holes and said hell
no, no way, this is going to be EXACTLY like an SP1200, and by exactly
I mean that several other guys made SP1200 overlays over the years that
were less accurate in graphics and construction details and less
faithful to the old SP1200 overlay design than this Drumulator overlay
is (at least three of those skidmarks just cut holes there instead of
having the proper clear windows for the LEDs, one inexplicably tried to
simulate it by somehow putting on some little clear stickers or
laminate so that you could feel something about like a contact lens on
the surface of the control panel, pathetic), and re-did everything in
the project to have the correct clear LED windows like an SP1200
instead of poking up out of the panel like a Drumulator. All of the
artwork and engineering files were changed, the die-cutting tool was
sent back to the CNC factory for modification, but the silkscreens, all
five of them, were useless, they were scrapped and new ones made. But
seeing the stunning results, it was totally worth it.
It is correct construction details like this that other previous
sellers have not had.
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At this time, I still have some other parts in stock that I can offer
along with this with a little discount. At least 9 out of 10
Drumulators out there are missing at least one of the caps on the tops
of the knobs, and I have those replacement knobs in stock 3 for $25 (3
for the SPs, but the Drumulator only uses two knobs). I also have the
famous "fat cap" slider caps from the SP1200 black reissue in stock for
$29, and one of those on your Drumulator slider would really be the
finishing touch on this SP1200 style setup (especially if you paint
your Drumulator black before putting this overlay on it). The overlay,
two knobs, and one fat cap would be $95.17, but I can do it at a
package price of $85.00, and the same shipping price you see for the
overlay alone. If you want this, just send me a message and I will set
up the special eBay listing for you at $85.00 and the combined shipping.
As for changing your blue function buttons over to white and red
function buttons like the SP1200, heh-heh, I'm not yet ready to sell
any of the ones I have, but will be doing it in the near future,
possibly even within a few weeks, meanwhile I should again pass out my
standard warning about the garbage "SP1200 switches" countless eBay
sellers have been selling over the last two years, they are crap and
the wrong part for two reasons (and the "SP1200 sliders" going around
on eBay are just as bad, note the intentionally deceptive photos in all
the listings for them), and any thinking person will hate your drum
machine if it has those on it.
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All Synhouse drum machine/synthesizer overlays are in stock and
available at all times, but sometimes the listings expire and aren't
relisted. There are presently 11 Synhouse drum machine/synthesizer
overlays (not including the miscellaneous overlays used in Synclavier
production) in production and in stock:
E-mu Drumulator Little SP overlay (SP1200 style overlay that sticks
over original Drumulator graphics [which are usually worn off] and
makes it match the look of your SP1200) $49.50
discounted/combined shipping full set E-mu Drumulator Little SP overlay
+ (1) new SP1200 fat cap slider cap + (2) new replacement knobs $85.00
E-mu SP1200 overlay $144
E-mu SP-12 (non-Turbo) overlay $144
E-mu SP-12 Turbo (says Turbo on it) overlay $144
E-mu SP-12 rear jackplate overlay $29
discounted/combined shipping full set E-mu SP-12 (non-Turbo or Turbo)
overlay + rear jackplate overlay $168
E-mu Emulator II main control panel overlay $168
E-mu Emulator II Moog wheels panel overlay (normal new blue color that
matches the new main control panel overlay) $29
E-mu Emulator II Moog wheels panel overlay (slightly lighter/grayish
blue color that is more likely to match a faded old main control panel
overlay, normally recommended if you are keeping the old main control
panel overlay and only buying the Moog wheels panel overlay) $29
discounted/combined shipping full set E-mu Emulator II main control
panel overlay + Moog wheels panel overlay $191
Moog Source control panel w/62 REAL SWITCHES to replace membrane panel
$247
New England Digital Synclavier II ORK MIDI panel overlay $29
360 Systems Instant Replay HD Audio 2.0 overlay $69
Most of these are listed here on eBay most of the time and the prices
don't change.
If you need one of these but don't see it listed, please send me an
eBay message and I will relist it on eBay for you, and I can also make
a special listing for you along with any other parts needed, which can
usually go with free combined shipping if the normal shipping is paid
for the overlay.
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There is a minimum shipping price for all of my small components and a
different minimum for a very low value item or for something $50 or
more. However, I can ship almost any number of parts for the
international shipping that it shows for most of those items. So if you
want, for example, an SP1200 overlay and some knobs and some switches,
or knobs and switches and potentiometers or whatever, just let me know
IN ADVANCE and I will set up a special listing for you so that you will
only pay the shipping once. This is if you tell me IN ADVANCE, not if
you ask for it later because any shipping money paid has already been
docked 12.55% (15% international) by eBay and that money is not coming
back. Yes, eBay takes 12.55% of the stated shipping charge (taking
shipping money since 2011), and is also taking 12.55% (15%
international) the item price and even for the sales tax charged (which
I never receive, so an item sent locally to Burbank with 10.25% sales
tax is charged 12.55% on the tax so that is essentially another 1.3% of
fees on the item price). So let me know in advance and I can set it up
so that you can save a lot of money by buying and shipping the parts
together.
I can also set up special listings for different quantities of items
sometimes. Usually the price is the same per item but I can set it up
and that saves a lot of money on shipping.