Roland TB 303 Bassline for sale. £600 inc P&P

 
3 years ago
CYBERFROG
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Roland TB 303 Bassline for sale. Good working order, comes with MIDI/SYNC adaptor manuel and original carry case. £600 inc P&P
3 years ago
Simon Parkes - FrozenUK
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WalesLlanidloes
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Roland TB 303 Bassline for sale. Good working order, comes with MIDI/SYNC adaptor manuel and original carry case. £600 inc P&P

Chist! £600 for that! Fuck, i thought the ridiculas pricing on TR909's and 303's ended years ago!

I bought one for £26 in 1990 mad eh? uhohlooking
3 years ago
Gopal
Gopal Pic1374 Posts
New ZealandAuckland
Music Style Solid Core

thats a crazy price, seen em going for 350 pounds with D550 midi controller recently.

3 years ago
Equinox
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United Kingdom
You should have snapped em up, just to sell on.

303's go for around the £500'ish mark, maybe a little more if totally un-modded for the collectors. A D550 is the rack of the D50 (Think Michael Jackson 80's tunes for type of sound) & normally go for around £250 - £350.

3 years ago
Gopal
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New ZealandAuckland
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You should have snapped em up, just to sell on.

303's go for around the £500'ish mark, maybe a little more if totally un-modded for the collectors. A D550 is the rack of the D50 (Think Michael Jackson 80's tunes for type of sound) & normally go for around £250 - £350.
Dude, I know.  I kick myself everyday I think about not hitting that buy now button.  I love 303s and I'd love to own one some day, but I don't honestly think I'd use it much in my productions these days which just makes the price tag unjustifiable.  Also, once I bought one, I sincerely doubt that you'd be able to prise it out of my hands even if there was quite a profit to be had.  It might have been a D50 midi then cause it was a desktop midi thing not a rackmount

3 years ago
Hypnotoad
MANGAFISH Pic4091 Posts
United Kingdom127.0.0.1
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the TB303 is quite possibly the most over rated synth ever. you're basically just paying for the name as most synth these days can recreate a half-decent acid line (only with a bit warmer sound to it)

i dont deny the 303's place in history, but i cant see the point in buying one in this day and age
3 years ago
? Alex Penn ?
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Kersal
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the TB303 is quite possibly the most over rated synth ever. you're basically just paying for the name as most synth these days can recreate a half-decent acid line (only with a bit warmer sound to it)

i dont deny the 303's place in history, but i cant see the point in buying one in this day and age


i believe that no hardware without the digtal benefits that most synths have nowadays should keep their price tags to below 350.
it is like watching VHS when you have the DVD; pointless nostalgia..

600 pounds to filter a triggered acid line seems a bit much IMO
3 years ago
Simon Parkes - FrozenUK
sjp Pic7925 Posts
WalesLlanidloes
Music Style White Noise
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the TB303 is quite possibly the most over rated synth ever. you're basically just paying for the name as most synth these days can recreate a half-decent acid line (only with a bit warmer sound to it)

i dont deny the 303's place in history, but i cant see the point in buying one in this day and age


i believe that no hardware without the digtal benefits that most synths have nowadays should keep their price tags to below 350.
it is like watching VHS when you have the DVD; pointless nostalgia..

600 pounds to filter a triggered acid line seems a bit much IMO
Bit like buying a laser disk player.....bloody useless laughinglaughing

but you have seen what people pay for on Ebay...so it dont supprise me!!

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3 years ago
Equinox
jaytranzmit Pic13020 Posts
United Kingdom
Hmmm anti Analogue brigade ha ha

Some stuff's collectable, but it all comes down to if you like the sound at the end of the day. There's some fucking dogs out there, but some very good old synths too.
3 years ago
Dicky
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i'd love to play on it first, but for £600 i'd rather just stick with audiorealism bassline.

3 years ago
Timmy The Tiger
corrosivenz Pic1181 Posts
IndiaNew Delhi
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I would love to own one one day.I love the ABL but i've read in a couple of interviews that none of the emulations compare to the sound of the tb303.

one day....

3 years ago
kinetik
22 Posts
It's not too hard to get a close match to the sound using other synths but there really is nothing that can do it exactly..

It all comes down to whether the difference is worth an extra £500-odd pounds to you?  Especially when you factor in that the 303 is a bit of a one-trick-pony that has the dubious honour of also being a bit of a bastard to use.

Personally I'd love a real 303 but I wouldn't buy one unless it was at a seriously bargin price;  the chips, pots + boards are getting pretty old now (and were probably pretty cheaply assembled to start with), making it a bit of a risky investment (look at the juno 106's these days). 

Besides for less than the cost of a second hand 303 you could get a new Future Retro synth which to me is a lot more tempting!

Anyway - back to the topic at hand:  Someone buy the man's 303!

Post edited by owner 08/01/2006 13:23:04
3 years ago
JägerMarty
Jagermarty Pic3139 Posts
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Roland TB 303 Bassline for sale. Good working order, comes with MIDI/SYNC adaptor manuel and original carry case. £600 inc P&P

Chist! £600 for that! Fuck, i thought the ridiculas pricing on TR909's and 303's ended years ago!

I bought one for £26 in 1990 mad eh? uhoh<img src="/img/forum/smilies/lo
Yeah, might be worth a bit more if it had been "Devil-Fished" but there's no mention of thatlooking
3 years ago
Simon Parkes - FrozenUK
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WalesLlanidloes
Music Style White Noise
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Hmmm anti Analogue brigade ha ha

Some stuff's collectable, but it all comes down to if you like the sound at the end of the day. There's some fucking dogs out there, but some very good old synths too.
 Im not anti-retro just cant justify the price.

I would love a room full of old synths, Prophet, oberheim etc...

Even summit like the Waldorf Wave....or a Prophet VS! A Matrix or ARP...MMM, NICE!

Some synths are just lush and couldnt be acurately replicated in software without loosing some of the wow factor and character.

I could quite happily carry on running a harware based studio if i was still in the midst of commercial releasing but since i want to play catchup with technology ive kinda let it all slip.

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3 years ago
Simon Parkes - FrozenUK
sjp Pic7925 Posts
WalesLlanidloes
Music Style White Noise

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i'd love to play on it first, but for £600 i'd rather just stick with audiorealism bassline.

Its a dog to program...ive still got the original quick setup guide!

After software making so many synths easy to program its like comparing a Technics SL1200 to a laptop running Traktor to mix with!

A tb303 without any effects sounds shite....but run Rebirth with the built in double TB303, Delay and Distortion then you will understand what i mean.

I found this while searching on Ebay for the TB303, never heard of it though?

http://www.future-retro.com/777.html

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3 years ago
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i like the look of the revolution  love
3 years ago
Hypnotoad
mangafish Pic4091 Posts
United Kingdom127.0.0.1
Music Style all sorts
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Hmmm anti Analogue brigade ha ha

Some stuff's collectable, but it all comes down to if you like the sound at the end of the day. There's some fucking dogs out there, but some very good old synths too.
 Im not anti-retro just cant justify the price.

I would love a room full of old synths, Prophet, oberheim etc...

Even summit like the Waldorf Wave....or a Prophet VS! A Matrix or ARP...MMM, NICE!

Some synths are just lush and couldnt be acurately replicated in software without loosing some of the wow factor and character.

I could quite happily carry on running a harware based studio if i was still in the midst of commercial releasing but since i want to play catchup with technology ive kinda let it all slip.

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there are new hardware synths on the market - and some would argue that they are 100x better than the retro synths for sound quality
3 years ago
Gopal
Gopal Pic1374 Posts
New ZealandAuckland
Music Style Solid Core


I found this while searching on Ebay for the TB303, never heard of it though?

http://www.future-retro.com/777.html

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They don't make them anymore unfortunately but they do still make the Revolution and they are both awesome pieces of kit.  True analog sound combined with digital convenience.  LUSH


3 years ago
Mr S (Jr)
jarrod Pic4563 Posts
AustraliaAdelaide
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I swapped a sega megadrive game for my 303 back in 1991.. what a bargain!

Pity my whole studio got ripped off in 1993 frown

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