Getting Parts for E-mu SP1200 Sampling Drum Machine

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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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Quality, boyeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!

Completely renew the control 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.

It is properly made of a sandy-textured polycarbonate substrate material, with die-cut holes for the buttons, LEDs, and sliders, and has the correct smooth clear plastic window over the LCD. Masterful color matching of the rich dark blue to the 1985 original makes it perfect. It is correct construction details like this that other previous sellers have not had.

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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 $157

E-mu SP-12 (non-Turbo) overlay $157

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 $181

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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Synhouse drum/synth overlays --- FIVE year anniversary and still going stronger than anyone else ever has in the history of drum/synth overlays!

As of November 21, 2022, it's been five years now.

Synhouse made a HUGE move into creating the highest quality/most accurate detail overlays in early 2017, investing more time and money than anyone who had come before, more than everyone who had come before COMBINED, the first overlay to come out seven months later was the SP1200 overlay, which hit like a jackhammer November 21, 2017, and the SP-12 overlay, Emulator II main/Moog wheels overlays, SP-12 Turbo overlay, and Moog Source (w/62 real mechanical switches) panel overlay coming out over the next five months. This crushed EVERYONE who had already been out there selling overlays (most of them for approximately three years, since 2014). The one with the website went out of business within seven weeks, the one selling those total garbage fruity blue SP-12 overlays with no window, missing text, and wrong texture/shiny/almost black SP1200 overlays got kicked off eBay within five months, and the one selling those Emulator II overlays where almost everything is wrong (no wonder the photos are dark, blurry, and repeatedly photographed inside plastic wrapping) cut the price 50% and inexplicably changed his eBay username.

So it's been a pretty good five years for Synhouse selling these. Four more Synhouse high quality epoxy ink silkscreened polycarbonate overlays are in the engineering/tooling/production pipeline right now.

The very first of the Synhouse overlays, the SP1200 overlay, has been in stock and shipping quickly every week for the last 271 weeks. Even four years ago at 52 weeks, that alone was an accomplishment that NO ONE ELSE can claim. Everyone else is trying to use the forums to get other people to finance the making of their products with PayPal "preorders", picking out and selling the least bad ones first, then screwing the preorder guys who paid maximum price by cutting the price 50% a few months later and selling out the defective ones (one of them saying they are blemished, one not saying they are blemished...but they are), and then being sold out, then starting back on the forums again trying to get people to pay far in advance again so that they can continue making their "products". It's pathetic.

There's no phony baloney sales pitch here about "IMPOSSIBLE TO GET NOW." (How is it "impossible to get" if it's been for sale in multiple venues for seven consecutive years?), "LAST ONES!", "RARE!", "CLOSEOUT", "SELLING AT COST!" (and the price changes to three different prices while "at cost", uhm, okay...), and "WON'T BE MADE AGAIN.". I'm not one of the idiots who make 10 pieces at a time and are always making countless forum posts about PayPal "pre-orders" and closeout sales.............before pitching more preorders on the exact same trash. The Synhouse overlays are factory made in big quantities, stocked in big quantities, and will be produced again in big quantities when sold out, so there is no need to buy a lot of them because you worry I won't be here, I WILL be here, and I've been here.

Check the eBay feedback, web domain whois, and secretary of state records to see that the eBay account synhouse is now completing the 24th year, the site doing e-commerce is now completing the 24th year, and the corporation (Synhouse Multimedia Corporation) is now completing the 24th year of being registered and in good standing. On all sides of my business from Synclaviers (synclav site) to Fairlights (FairlightCMI site) to MIDIJACKs (synhouse site), I've got out of business ex-competitors who went out of business and shut down 11 years ago, 14 years ago, even 20 years ago or more, telling people by phone, private messages on forums, and e-mails, "Don't give money to that Synhouse guy, he's really bad!" (Yeah, that's why I'm here and you're not. Suck it, losers.)

If the quantity is showing 1 or last one, it's just because two were listed and one was sold, but I have as many as you want in stock here. If I list a huge quantity, then no one will ever buy them until there are few, so I just list one or two at a time fairly often. Sometimes I forget to relist, so people have to remind me.

Lastly, the overseas shipping price showing here is the minimum for any drum/synth parts shipping overseas, but I can include almost anything in that IF you tell me IN ADVANCE and I set up a special combined shipping listing for you. So, for example, I can ship an overlay, ten drum pad switches, a slider cap, etc., all together at once for that one minimum shipping price if it is in one listing. But if you just click them all and pay, that money is paid and not coming back, so you have to let me know IN ADVANCE.

The buyers of the Synhouse drum/synth parts include almost every Synhouse competitor in several countries (including the crybabies that say "That Synhouse guy is really mean! He didn't have to say that. Arghhh!"), three have spent over $2,000, five have spent over $1,000, that's a lot of drum/synth parts and they do it because they know who's got the sack.

To the many, many buyers of the Synhouse drum/synth parts: Thanks for your continuing support.

To the haters: Keep hatin' baby! Winners can't win without you.

Thank you.

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Combined shipping deals:

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.