Recent popularity of TR-707?

[serv]

Check out this ebay listing.
http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... K:MEWAX:IT

707 is currently going for 500 USD!! Is the world going mad?
With that money, I'd save some more and get Jomox XBase-09 or get Electribe or something and put in the samples.
You could get decent 909 out of Novation Drumstation as well.

I am not sure if 707 hype is just a hype or something that's going to continue.
What do you guys think?

[megamanx]

one sold yesterday for 300.00 this one doesn't even work...I guess many of us have given up on 909 or 808...

[Scories]

I don't get it. I would not even trade my 50$ Casio RZ1 for one [for musical reasons, indeed].

[sequentialsoftshock]

I think it may be a phase. DrumTraks are going for around $300-400 now too. It's probably the same reason the 808/909 are so popular; people are finding out artists have used them etc. In the U.S. especially, a lot of people are finally having extra money to spend over the last few years.

[balma]

Yeah some vintage synths does NOT have a steady price.

And some sellers just put a high price from time to time.

I got the Fizmo on $600, a few weeks later two of them were sold up to $1k.

And recently I watched another one being sold on $800....

[space6oy]

giving up hope on trying to spend 3-4x that much for an 808 or 909 might be part of the reason. agree w/ the xbase 09 being a better option on some fronts, but i've always thought the 707 was underrated. love how it has faders instead of knobs. individual outs, doesn't weigh a thing. it's a sweet piece of gear.

[sequentialsoftshock]

Another thing, it seems like there have been less 707's for sale in the past few months than six months ago. Maybe people are finally founding out how useful of a machine it is. I feel the sliders are better for a drum machine versus knobs for a synthesizer.

[Polyroy]

I guess seeing as they have trigger outs, sync and MIDI, people might be using them as a control centre for some of their analogue gear in the thought that for a bit more than some kind of sync box or a kenton, you get a drum machine as well.

[ianjhicks]

I think theres a general trend back towards 80s chicago house music and the 707 in general going on.. you can hear it in groups like azari & III, hercules and the love affair, nite jewel, dam funk, black meteoric star etc etc

its definitely a cool drum machine but it certainly isnt worth 500.. what a crock

[Automatic Gainsay]

It's funny, because I remember a time when people were saying this about the 909.

[Z]

It's funny, because I remember a time when people were saying this about the 909.

Maybe in 1987.

Almost as long as I've been doing music (late 80's), 909's have always been in demand. They were not fetching $1500 back then, but still fetching pretty hefty price tags (around $400, at least that's what I was selling them for after I bought them for $100-$200) compared to other machines of same vintage.

[Automatic Gainsay]

It's funny, because I remember a time when people were saying this about the 909.

Maybe in 1987.

Almost as long as I've been doing music (late 80's), 909's have always been in demand. They were not fetching $1500 back then, but still fetching pretty hefty price tags (around $400, at least that's what I was selling them for after I bought them for $100-$200) compared to other machines of same vintage.

You apparently live in a very different realm than I do. I remember when the TR-909 came out, and I remember when its sounds became dated. I remember when other, newer, drum machines replaced it, and its sounds were considered old-fashioned.
I remember some ten years later, that on the internet, it was often mocked as being the inferior subsequent drum machine from the 808, and I remember how people mocked it for being such.

[Yatmandu]

I passed on one for $150 or so around a year ago, and I should be kicking myself in retrospect, but I'm not because what I really wanted is an inexpensive 606.

[Z]

It's funny, because I remember a time when people were saying this about the 909.

Maybe in 1987.

Almost as long as I've been doing music (late 80's), 909's have always been in demand. They were not fetching $1500 back then, but still fetching pretty hefty price tags (around $400, at least that's what I was selling them for after I bought them for $100-$200) compared to other machines of same vintage.

You apparently live in a very different realm than I do. I remember when the TR-909 came out, and I remember when its sounds became dated. I remember when other, newer, drum machines replaced it, and its sounds were considered old-fashioned.
I remember some ten years later, that on the internet, it was often mocked as being the inferior subsequent drum machine from the 808, and I remember how people mocked it for being such.

It is true that the 909 was not very popular when it was introduced and quickly had a dated sound, but when techno & house started getting popular in the late 80's, that sound was back in demand, especially after "Vogue" came out in 1990.

Now I did take a break from music in the late 90's until just a few years ago, so I really can't comment on that time, so I may have mis-spoke. But hasn't 808 & 909 samples been staple sounds in all the ROMpler based machines (especially drum macines & groove boxes) since the mid 90's?

[space6oy]

how old ARE you, AG? 40? 50?