selling my jupiter 6 - actually trading! advice?

well I've decided to sell my Roland Jupiter 6.

I put a price of $1,200 US on it which i very reasonable... it is not in pristine or excelent condition but would consider it good to very good condition... normal wear for a board a 1/4 of a century old and I did countless gigs on it for well over 20 years!

Completely functional, dual oscillator synth with all the sliders, slider caps and knobs intact and totally functional, all keys are working, action is solid, no softies! There is one issue electronically with the bender function... you can assign VCA or VCF or both to the bender and you can tell it which VCO to use or both... if you assign both ocsillators to the bender it goes out of tune where just one does not... it is the small isolated circuit directly under the button, an easy fix with the part.

Here's the deal /... been offered $600 cash plus a black '76 Gibson Explorer re-issue 2000 model.

approx value on the guitar at $700-750...

What do you think people? Am i nuts for letting a truly vintage piece of synth history go, should I hang onto it or go ahead and sell... I played around with it last night... it is truly the mamma jamma of analouge synths... very fat warm analog old school stuff... I just don't do that kind of music anymore, although i could write with it, but would probably never gig with it... huge board and at 46 lb. without the case ermmm lots to tote around...

comments?

Edited by Mark Holley - 26 February 2009 at 4:56pm

"Sittin' in the Sheraton Gibson, Playin' ma Gibson..."
Jupiter is a monster planet and THE Jupiter is truly a monster synth. But being one who's sitting waiting for his humble acoustic to come back from 'Eddy the fixer" and being of strapped cash, if I was you I would get rid and do the part-ex dude. like you said, it's a mammoth of a weight to lug around, and to own a gibson as consolation sounds alreet t'me. Think of it as practice for when the offspring have to be let go of, although in this case you'd be getting cash and i suppose that's a tad different...mmm..bad analogy methinks......but hey, you gain a fine bit of acoustic wood as replacement.
Oh I don't know. It's late and I'm a bit frazzled. sell it...no don't...part ex it...no don't...I'll have it...no, wait...need me guitar back...no, wait............................................................................................................
......................Sell it.

I think it depends upon how much you need the money. To me... you can't put a price on a Jupiter 6. It's a part of history. If it were me... (thinking in your shoes) and I had a synth that I didn't use that much... I think I would still keep it. You'll never know when you'll need it. Say the day after you sell it, a record company says, "We LOVE your sound but if you had a deeper bassy lasery lead sound in your music, we'd be more than welcome to have you aboard.", you may be kicking your butt knowing that you may not be able to get that sound again from the synth that does it with an original sound. But that's just me. I have a TB-303 and an MC-202. NEEEEEVVVVVEEEERRRRR would I ever get rid of them. But then again, I use them all the time so it's tough for me to say. Now if it was a cheapo piece of history like a 707 or something then it wouldn't be such a big deal to me. But a Jupiter 6 is hard to come by. So hard. Isn't there anything you could use it for? If you can't think of more then 4 reasons. Then probably... Maybe get rid of it. Sometimes letting a synth sit in one spot doing nothing for a long period of time can do more harm than good... It's a tough one, Mark. Really it is.

You wanna be careful lugging all that around dude. You could end up with arms like this.....
http://www.bagofnothing.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/1447352026_f5ac80b4d0.jpg
(Actually, I can't look at this pic for too long, it turns my stomach. That's why I've url'd it rather than img'ing it. Out of visual respect for the thread and human decency.)