NU-RNOSGCD (New Uber-Rare New Old Stock Guitar Case Day) x 2

HarrySeven

Even for me, an unbelieveable find...not one, but 2...



Brand new, unused, 31 years old.

First person to guess correctly gets a Wiz.

Schnozz

SynthAxe.

snakemanStoo

Uzi 9mm

Funkfingers

How many bleedin' Synthaxes have you got, then?

HarrySeven

@Schnozz gets the Wiz.

Schnozz

Makes me think of the Wooten Brothers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPBmyFsfyPc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGqxFafystA

guitarmangler

Wow. Where did you find those ?
Do you have a synthax? I'd love to have a go in one. They cost so much when they 1st came out that Holdsworth sold his flat in London to buy one!

Funkfingers

Let's hope that Mister Seven did not pay as much as this.

guitars4you

only just got back but would have gone with the Synth Axe as a guess - I recall that N Marten of Guitarist Editor fame worked with them on demo's customer relation or something - Sure that is true - update if you know more/better/different

HarrySeven

guitars4you said:

only just got back but would have gone with the Synth Axe as a guess - I recall that N Marten of Guitarist Editor fame worked with them on demo's customer relation or something - Sure that is true - update if you know more/better/different

Voila!

Schnozz

Lee Ritenour's 'Earth Run' is a great Album for SynthAxe too

HarrySeven

guitarmangler said:

Wow. Where did you find those ?

Do you have a synthax? I'd love to have a go in one.

Purchased from an ex-employee, who had them stashed in his garage for years!

And yes, I do have one.

ThorpyFX

Was it commercially successful? It looks absolutely awful. 

HarrySeven

ThorpyFX said:

Was it commercially successful? It looks absolutely awful. 

Well, to place it in context, state-of-the-art guitar synthesiser controllers (within roughly the same timeframe) looked like this:


















And no, the SynthAxe wasn't a commercial success (bit too much of an eye-watering rock-star price tag @ £10K a pop, without any external MIDI sound modules*, for a start), despite some high-profile patronage (primarily Allan Holdsworth) - who - or so I'm told (by someone who worked for the company) - practically had a team of scientists on the road with him, keeping them up and running.

*The SynthAxe was a MIDI controller only - it output MIDI data, not audio (unlike the Stepp DG-1).

guitars4you

I could never get my head through that guitar strap - why it was never made adjustable I don't know !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sassafras

It shows lazy design standards. With a bit more work and a lot of determination they could've made it even uglier and less practical.

Funkfingers

Worn on a strap, the Roland G-707 is actually very comfortable. The neck profile is excellent. For me, the only "less practical" aspects are the feel of the vibrato and having the secondary control knobs bunched up very close together. 

All of this counts for little because the synthesizer triggering lag on the low E string was about half a week.