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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Completely renew the rear jack panel of your E-mu SP-12 with this brand
new replacement overlay from Synhouse, manufactured of the highest
quality polycarbonate and adhesive with crystal clear printing and
brilliant colors.
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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 13 Synhouse drum machine/synthesizer
overlays (not including the miscellaneous array of 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 $74.50
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+ main control panel overlay $168
E-mu Emulator II+ HD 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, Emulator II+,
or Emulator II+ HD 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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The timing of the first listing of this item might cause some
confusion, so let me clear this up right now:
I want to make it very, very clear that all the synthesizer and drum
machine overlays that are being sold from the official synhouse account
on eBay are manufactured by Synhouse for sale by Synhouse. They are
being sold by Synhouse and will only be sold by Synhouse.
These are ABSOLUTELY NOT surplus merchandise from my recently
out-of-business ex-competitor. Or from less recently out-of-business
ex-competitors. Lots of that garbage is being sold and resold from
people in USA, England, France, Australia, and who knows where it will
turn up next. I would not sell that garbage.
It is my present belief that the Synhouse synthesizer and drum machine
replacement overlays are the best quality and by far the most accurate
that have ever been available anywhere at any price at any time in
history (and the SP-12, SP1200, and Emulator II overlays are probably
the ONLY correct replacement overlays ever made for those instruments,
all the others that have been seen have errors in construction or
artwork, such as the details on the clear windows over the SP-12 LCD
and SP1200 LEDs and the placement of almost everything on the Emulator
II). There are presently 13 of them in production. One of the biggest
projects was the two part overlays for the E-mu Emulator II, which are
available both separately and as a set. Between the three versions
(Emulator II, Emulator II+, and Emulator II+ HD) and the alternate
faded color wheels panel overlay, that's five different items, all in
stock now and always, and there have been three productions so far and
more to come. These have far more accuracy in detail and dimensions
than the garbage sold elsewhere on eBay (and spammed to people with 23
hashtags on social media). At least two customers (that I know of) have
bought that trash and switched to the Synhouse Emulator II overlays in
2018 and 2019. The Synhouse synthesizer and drum machine overlays are
vastly superior to what has come before, so if anyone is holding some
old surplus stock of defective, irregular, incorrectly printed Emulator
II/SP-12/SP1200 overlays, I suggest they liquidate them quickly on the
cheap because only a moron would stick that garbage on their classic
instrument if the Synhouse brand overlay for it is available.
It's sad how many different people in different countries have tried to
make these synthesizer and drum machine overlays before, made mistakes
in them, and actually tried to publicly sell the defective merchandise
for a discount, saying, "There are small swirl scratches by the
Speciall (sic) and Disk area of the label...Which still looks way
better than the 30 year old peeling originals on most EII's (sic)."
(No, it doesn't, and that's why you need your day job. Any company that
had to depend on your lack of skills, attention to detail, judgment,
and tendency to try to sell mistakes and failed attempts at making
products as company merchandise would soon be out of business.) And
they offer this obviously defective merchandise in the same time and
place that they are saying how superior their products are and "Don't
be fooled by others!"
You will not see me trying to drum up business in internet forums and
you will not see me spamming mailing lists and social media with
advertisements asking people to give me PayPal money in advance for a
product that no one has seen so that I can have enough money to produce
it. If I didn't have the money, I wouldn't produce it, and I wouldn't
ask others to take the investment risk that I wouldn't take myself,
when the resulting profit would be mine. I finance these manufacturing
projects either by saving up the money coming in from Synclavier sales
to pay with 100% cash, or using the credit that factories extend to my
company due to my reputation with established corporate credit. You
will not see me telling people that 10 pieces will be available in a
month or two if I can get at least 10 guys to hand over the money now
and thereby finance my business for me.
The construction details and quality of the Synhouse synthesizer and
drum machine overlays don't come easily; It requires
multimillion-dollar factories with automation and properly trained
operators, and tens of thousands of square feet of large-scale
equipment. Any factory that knows what they are doing and is properly
automated and equipped is not going to take an order for 10 stickers.
Get serious. That wouldn't pay for the time to set up the materials and
equipment, much less the materials themselves, the downtime of the
equipment, or the tooling cost. It wouldn't even pay for the wasted
2-part epoxy ink that is lost during every production run setup and
subsequent cleanup. I learned this sort of thing the hard way 20+ years
ago. As such, I did what was needed and 23 years ago I was making a
robotically assembled electronic product and shipping it to customers
in 39 countries around the world.
Synhouse has made a substantial investment to get into the production
of synthesizer and drum machine overlays and it shows in the
construction details (seamless textured LED windows on the SP1200
overlay, smooth clear windows over the LCD on SP-12 [instead of a lie
about how SP-12s are not supposed to have a clear window over the
LCD---when you know very well that your SP-12 and every SP-12 you've
ever seen in your life had a clear window over the LCD, it's one of the
top reasons people buy the Synhouse SP-12 overlay with the clear LCD
window, because the old one was dented, scratched, perforated, kinked,
or yellowed], and smooth clear windows over the LCD on Emulator II
overlays) and quality (2-part epoxy screen print inks, different
textures of polycarbonate substrate materials, high strength peel and
stick adhesive backings) and this company will continue to prove itself
over time with very, very high quality goods shipped worldwide
consistently for 20+ years and counting.
You can buy this product from me now or you can wait and buy it one
year from today, your choice. It depends on when YOU want it, not on
the instability of the joker trying to sell it.
The amateur hour has ended, you will not see a website that is the
world's largest catalog of things that all say "sold out - pre-order
below", and you will not see Synhouse erratically repeating cycles of
PayPal pre-orders, cut-rate pricing on defective merchandise, and
suddenly slashed prices to "re-coupe (sic) my loses (sic)".
While there might be a feel-good moment to be had hoping for and
praising the efforts of the underdog little guy trying to learn to do
something he's never done for the first time, you know, rooting for the
slow kid, it's more reassuring to know that you can depend on the
strength of an 800 pound gorilla. Look at the jeans you are wearing
now. If you were locked in a room with some denim fabric, thread, and a
sewing machine, you couldn't make jeans of that quality if your life
depended on it, even if they did only cost $15 at Costco. And the
factory that DOES make them perfectly wouldn't take an order to produce
10 of them for you just so that you could try this business for the
first time. Such a good factory would need a substantially larger
order, secured by large credit or large cash. I have already
manufactured thousands of drum machine and synthesizer overlays, giving
me what will amount to a quadruple lifetime supply on the less popular
ones, just because that's what it took to get them done right in a
factory with the right equipment to produce the highest quality. A
better method gets better results. And doing things the hard way is the
right way. I've proven that time and time again over the last twenty
years.
As time permits, I will talk about the incredible amount of
misinformation and misdirection that has been passed around (in eBay
listings, on websites, in internet forums, in mailing lists, etc.)
regarding replacement overlays in the last several years.
Some of those guys made overlays that were relatively high quality in
materials, but with wrong construction details, wrong colors, bad fit,
and horrible dimensional linearity (this means that colored sections,
borders, and text are in the wrong locations with a few millimeters of
error in many places, and the die cut cutout location relative to the
graphics printing is wrong and varies from one piece to another,
something that should not happen in any manufactured product, because
it's indicative of low quality manufacturing practices and trying to do
things by hand measuring or by eyeballing it, instead of by
computer-controlled automated equipment with the standard CNC machine
accuracy that the Synhouse overlays have on EVERY piece (no matter how
many you compare over any number of years), and the next production run
is exactly the same because it's a computer running a computer file on
automated screen printing equipment with precise computer control of
stroke speed, squeegee pressure, and all other parameters, things that
will be 30% different on every piece coming out of the T-shirt
shop-style operations that everyone else has been using---I mean the
BEST of the bad ones have been using T-shirt shop-style operations, the
worst of the bad ones aren't even doing that, they are using inkjet
computer printers instead of using multiple silkscreens and screen
printing one color at a time, and some without even cutting them out
after printing, instead telling you to use a knife to cut out 67 holes
for buttons, sliders, pots, LCD and LEDs by hand, so that your SP1200
ends up looking like the school project of a slow kid). Some of the
better ones of the bad were relatively accurate in type styles and
other cosmetic details, but with low quality or incorrect materials and
printing, wrong colors, and wrong construction details as well. Some of
them were just totally shameful garbage.
Synhouse Multimedia Corporation has been in business for 23 years and
has been manufacturing from day one. Synhouse existed for 4 years
informally before incorporation, and was only officially incorporated
in 1999 when manufacturing the first products. Twenty-three years
later, those first products (the Synhouse Original MIDIJACK, MIDIJACK
II, and Moogiestyle MIDIJACK) are still being manufactured.
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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 14.9% by eBay managed payments and that money is not coming
back. Yes, eBay takes the same percentage of the stated shipping charge
as they do on the item since 2011. 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.