Come into my studio and see my Roland SH3.

Posted April 15th, 2008 by Oliver Chesler
Filed Under: synthesizer, video

I’ve been stuck in the studio catching up on several remixes and songs for my next album. I would never forget about my blog readers so while I was there today I shot three videos of my Roland SH3 in action.

The Roland SH3 was produced in 1974. It is more rare than the SH3A which was put into the market after Moog sued Roland for the original SH3’s filter design. This is one reason the Roland SH3 sounds so incredible. Rumor has it that less than 100 of these were ever made.

You can hear pure Roland SH3 accompanied by an Electrocomp-101 in two of my songs: Room of Posers and Sex Machine.

Be sure to check out the other two Roland SH3 videos I put up here:
http://www.vimeo.com/user442527

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10 Responses to “Come into my studio and see my Roland SH3.”
  1. digitalbeatsyndrome@yahoo.com Says:
    April 15th, 2008 at 7:08 pm

    Keep em coming…
    I thought Adam X used a Mono-poly on Audiobiography, its now apparent he had one of these bad boys.

  2. Datascraper Says:
    April 15th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    Mind if I sample some of this?

    ;)

  3. Oliver Chesler Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 12:08 am
    Sample away. I’ve been grabbing loops for peoples Circuit Bent YouTube videos with crappy sound quality. Ill post more studio videos soon.
  4. Datascraper Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 1:03 am

    Haha thats actually a new favorite past time of mine, sampling circuit bent vids.

    I also like visiting pages like this for new sounds…

    http://www.alien-devices.com/

  5. antonio lopez Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 1:49 am

    hi oliver!

    danke für diese tollen videos und deinen blog!
    hey, könntest du mal dein ganzes studio filmen?
    so ähnlich… wie es einmal robacid gemacht hat.

    gracias y saludos,

    antonio lopez

  6. Oliver Chesler Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 2:21 am
    Hi Antonio. Yes more videos coming soon!
  7. Pete Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 4:59 am

    Cool - keep the vids up!

  8. TRUTH Says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    Moog never sued Roland.
    Quit being a parrot for rumors.

  9. Oliver Chesler Says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
    Hi Truth. I like the “parrot for rumors” saying. Do you know for sure? I read it (on the internets) many times over the years. I know for a fact that the SH3 sounds much thicker than the SH3A. Now if they were not sued then was the introduction of the 3A to make things cheaper?
  10. Oliver Chesler Says:
    April 23rd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
    This is a quote from Sound on Sound Magazine, November 2004 in an article titled The History Of Roland: “Not everything was plain sailing, and it appears that Kakehashi infringed one of Bob Moog’s filter patents when he designed the SH3. So a new version appeared in 1974. Externally, the SH3A was almost identical to the SH3, but it sported a new VCF and VCA, and it was this model that Vangelis and a handful of other famous keyboard players adopted in the mid-1970s.” link
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