This is the Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 that I just finished fixing.

Prophet5

Oberheim TVS-1A2

I just finished restoring a TR-808.  This is what a REAL Roland TR-808 sounds like without any effects or compression.  I am plugged out of the summing jack that combines all of the drum sounds into one output.  Notice that the bass drum seems to have a mind of its own and never quite hits the same: This is how you can tell a real analog drum machine from a plugin.   A Real 808 drum kick adds the state of the last drum hit decay into the current hit!

808 Kick and Rimshot Unmastered

This is a Roland Space Echo RE-301 from 1977  that I just finished restoring.  The 
Space Echo is a truly astonishing effects when they are restored and some of the original components are replaced with modern high fidelity ones.  I left a little bit of space before I started playing so that you can see how low I got the noise floor.  The two glitches in the recording are from the tape splice that forms a continuous echo loop.  I recorded it at 88.2/24bit.  This is a classic effect that has been reincarnated as the Boss RE-20 foot pedal.  

Mike LaFlare

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