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Brand New SP-1200 Replacement Faceplate Overlay for
E-mu SP1200 - MINT and NEW!
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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Synhouse drum/synth overlays --- Seven year anniversary and still going stronger than anyone else ever has in the history of drum/synth overlays!
As of November 21, 2024, it's been seven 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 this very one, 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 always dark, blurry, and repeatedly photographed inside plastic wrapping) cut the price 50% and inexplicably changed his eBay username.
So it's been pretty good for Synhouse selling these.
These SP1200 overlays have been in stock and shipping quickly every week for the last 364 weeks. That alone is an accomplishment that NO ONE ELSE can claim. Even at 52 weeks it was an accomplishment that NO ONE ELSE could 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 in year number 26, the site doing e-commerce is now completing the 26th year, and the corporation (Synhouse Multimedia Corporation) is now completing the 26th 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 13 years ago, 16 years ago, even 22 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, 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.
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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Completely renew the control panel of your E-mu SP1200 (80s or 90s black reissue) 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, sliders, and LCD, and has the correct seamless textured LED windows over the LEDs. It is correct construction details like this that other previous sellers have not had.
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Two things to point out about what you see in the photos:
One, there are some photos in the eBay listing here that were taken outdoors in the natural sunlight, with the overlay on top of an SP1200 chassis that has the boards removed. These are probably showing as photos 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. If the overlay looks like it isn't stuck down very well, it's because it's not stuck down at all; It's not even peeled, the new overlay was just set down on top of the SP1200 for the photo, so you can see what it actually looks like on a machine. All the Synhouse overlays are a very thick 15 mil polycarbonate material, so just the weight of itself holds it down very flat.
Number two, as such, the clear windows for the 15 LEDs still have the white paper backing showing through because it hasn't been peeled yet, making those windows look white in the photos, but it won't look like that on your machine, they will look darker and of course the red of the LED will come through when the LEDs are illuminated.
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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 16 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 Emax Model 1000 keyboard control panel 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
Sequential Prophet-600 membrane panel $39.50
Sequential Prophet-600 control panel w/19 REAL SWITCHES $99
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.
Sometimes the eBay stock sells out and I forget to relist them, so 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 sixteen of them in stock that have completed production, plus three more that are in various stages of 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. 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 26 years ago I was making a robotically assembled electronic product and shipping it to customers in 42 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 26 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 (like one of my absolute loser failed competitors praising one of my now out-of-business ex-competitors who reposted it in his listings [as he was failing and going out of business], "All is here ! Perfect :) nice work ++ Happy :)"), 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. Synhouse has 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-six years. I am utterly peerless in all categories of production because no one will follow me here. No one will put in the work. So far no one will put in even 3% of the investment Synhouse has, either. And if some weirdo comes along in year 30 who will? Lulz, good luck, I'm 30 years ahead of you and that can never change. It's game over for those guys---permanently.
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 26 years and has been manufacturing from day one. Synhouse existed for 4 years informally before incorporation, and was only officially incorporated in 1999 when a huge amount of expense was going to be incurred in manufacturing the first products. Twenty-six 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 15.56% by eBay managed payments (it is 14.91% for USA and 15.56% for outside USA, even Canada, and if you think that's wrong, it's because you don't know, if you think it's the "13.6%" claimed, they forget to mention that it's also charged on the sales tax, which for example just in the next city here of Burbank, it's 10.25%, so 13.6% of 10.25% is a 1.31% stealth surcharge ON THE WHOLE THING, and it's even higher for European, etc. orders with all the VAT, customs clearance, etc., and this doesn't even count those eBay fees being charged on all shipping/handing since 2011) 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 (unless it's mass multiples, and anyone out there selling my own products against me gets banned for life) but I can set it up and that saves a lot of money on shipping.
On August 1st, 2024, Synhouse Multimedia Corporation started year number 26, and celebrated 25 years on eBay (1999-2024).
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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Synhouse drum/synth overlays --- Seven year anniversary and still going stronger than anyone else ever has in the history of drum/synth overlays!
As of November 21, 2024, it's been seven 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 this very one, 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 always dark, blurry, and repeatedly photographed inside plastic wrapping) cut the price 50% and inexplicably changed his eBay username.
So it's been pretty good for Synhouse selling these.
These SP1200 overlays have been in stock and shipping quickly every week for the last 364 weeks. That alone is an accomplishment that NO ONE ELSE can claim. Even at 52 weeks it was an accomplishment that NO ONE ELSE could 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 in year number 26, the site doing e-commerce is now completing the 26th year, and the corporation (Synhouse Multimedia Corporation) is now completing the 26th 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 13 years ago, 16 years ago, even 22 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, 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.
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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Completely renew the control panel of your E-mu SP1200 (80s or 90s black reissue) 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, sliders, and LCD, and has the correct seamless textured LED windows over the LEDs. It is correct construction details like this that other previous sellers have not had.
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Two things to point out about what you see in the photos:
One, there are some photos in the eBay listing here that were taken outdoors in the natural sunlight, with the overlay on top of an SP1200 chassis that has the boards removed. These are probably showing as photos 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. If the overlay looks like it isn't stuck down very well, it's because it's not stuck down at all; It's not even peeled, the new overlay was just set down on top of the SP1200 for the photo, so you can see what it actually looks like on a machine. All the Synhouse overlays are a very thick 15 mil polycarbonate material, so just the weight of itself holds it down very flat.
Number two, as such, the clear windows for the 15 LEDs still have the white paper backing showing through because it hasn't been peeled yet, making those windows look white in the photos, but it won't look like that on your machine, they will look darker and of course the red of the LED will come through when the LEDs are illuminated.
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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 16 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 Emax Model 1000 keyboard control panel 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
Sequential Prophet-600 membrane panel $39.50
Sequential Prophet-600 control panel w/19 REAL SWITCHES $99
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.
Sometimes the eBay stock sells out and I forget to relist them, so 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 sixteen of them in stock that have completed production, plus three more that are in various stages of 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. 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 26 years ago I was making a robotically assembled electronic product and shipping it to customers in 42 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 26 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 (like one of my absolute loser failed competitors praising one of my now out-of-business ex-competitors who reposted it in his listings [as he was failing and going out of business], "All is here ! Perfect :) nice work ++ Happy :)"), 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. Synhouse has 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-six years. I am utterly peerless in all categories of production because no one will follow me here. No one will put in the work. So far no one will put in even 3% of the investment Synhouse has, either. And if some weirdo comes along in year 30 who will? Lulz, good luck, I'm 30 years ahead of you and that can never change. It's game over for those guys---permanently.
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 26 years and has been manufacturing from day one. Synhouse existed for 4 years informally before incorporation, and was only officially incorporated in 1999 when a huge amount of expense was going to be incurred in manufacturing the first products. Twenty-six 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 15.56% by eBay managed payments (it is 14.91% for USA and 15.56% for outside USA, even Canada, and if you think that's wrong, it's because you don't know, if you think it's the "13.6%" claimed, they forget to mention that it's also charged on the sales tax, which for example just in the next city here of Burbank, it's 10.25%, so 13.6% of 10.25% is a 1.31% stealth surcharge ON THE WHOLE THING, and it's even higher for European, etc. orders with all the VAT, customs clearance, etc., and this doesn't even count those eBay fees being charged on all shipping/handing since 2011) 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 (unless it's mass multiples, and anyone out there selling my own products against me gets banned for life) but I can set it up and that saves a lot of money on shipping.
On August 1st, 2024, Synhouse Multimedia Corporation started year number 26, and celebrated 25 years on eBay (1999-2024).