Vintage Synth Explorer

I just got one of these off ebay for under 100, and I have to say after owning a many a synth this is a great little bass machine. I have never owned a real 303, but this thing kicks but. I run it through my Marshall Stack and it sounds wicked.

They sound decent enough. In contrast to a real 303, the cutoff doesn't have near the range of a real one, and the resonance is limited, so it doesn't get quite the same squelch that a 303 does. Not a great replacement fora 303, but they do well enough on their own. One thing that you have to be leery about though is that the build quality on these things is horrible. I'm on my second one right now and it's also going down the tubes. The VCO died on my first one. On the one I've got now, it loses MIDI note information constantly, the VCO occasionally stops responding, and it won't tune up to C and so it has to be played a semitone higher in order to stay in the right scale as other synths (the autotune button has no effect.) However, I've since relegated it being a component of my modular, and the filter has served me well in this regard, so it can still be useful.

great little bass machine, as fat as a fat lady's ass.. the sound is all there. of course, you need to have a control synth to play it, but it is indeed a fine addition to any gear setup