Video Tours of Vintage Analog & Digital Synth Shops in Japan

Published on Dec 18, 2014 ED電音頻道 E.D.Music Channel

Playlist:
1. Analogue Synth Museum Tour ~ Five G @Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan 2014 (Part 1)
2. Analogue Synth Museum Tour ~ Five G, Japan 2014 (Part 2)
3. Analogue Synth Specialist Shop Tour ~ Five G Music @Tokyo, Japan 2004

BGM: 'Randomness' by Timmy Lok
*Special thanks to:
Five G from Tokyo, Japan.
Copyright: E.D. Music Co.

Analogue Synth Gallery Tour ~ Echigoya Music, Japan 2014

Published on Dec 21, 2014

Analogue Synth Gallery Tour ~ Echigoya Music, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan 2014
BGM: "Zeus" by Timmy Lok + Eddie Hui
*Special thanks to:
Echigoya Music from Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
Copyright: E.D. Music Co.

Analogue Synth Shop ~ Miyaji Wurly's @Tokyo, Japan 2014

Published on Dec 23, 2014

"*Special thanks to:
Miyaji Wurly's and Yukihiro Kanbe.
Copyright: E.D. Music Co."

Pro-Music Shop Tour ~ Rock On Music @Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan 2004


Published on Dec 27, 2014
BGM: "Randomness" by Timmy Lok
*Special thanks to:
Rock On Music, Tokyo, Japan
Copyright: E.D.Music Co.

Analogue Synth Shop Tour ~ Andy's Music @Shimo-Kitazawa, Japan 2004

Published on Dec 27, 2014

BGM: "Randomness" by Timmy Lok
*Special thanks to:
Yukihiro Kanbe, Andy's Music, Shimo-Kitazawa, Japan
Copyright: E.D.Music Co.

Pro-Music Synth Shop Tour ~ Junction Music @Tokyo, Japan 2004

Published on Dec 27, 2014

BGM: "Randomness" by Timmy Lok
*Special thanks to:
Abe Takashi, Junction Music, Tokyo, Japan
Copyright: E.D.Music Co.

Five-G Tokyo Shop Visit

Published on Nov 19, 2017 Bonedo Synthesizers

"We've paid the legendary Five-G Shop in Tokyo a visit. Synth Heaven!"

Giving this one the synth museums label. It is a shop, but it might as well be a museum. You can find previous posts featuring Five-G here.

FIVE G Legendary Synth Shop,Tokyo Visit

Published on Sep 30, 2019 sonicstate

"They say when in Tokyo, you need to visit Five G - its the legendary synth shop in the Harajuku district (famous for teen fashion).

So we did. And its a real treasure cave - we were still awake after 26hours of travel, so frankly were amazed any of the footage came out, but we hope you enjoy.."

FIVE G

Five-G Japan

click here for more shots of Five-G in Tokyo, Japan.

via Loren

Five-G site in Googlish

Update for those traveling to Tokyo: it's right next to Harajuku station.

Regarding the gear: "Those were taken just about two weeks ago. And I didn't even get any pics of the Jupiter 4 and 6's, the multiple MemoryMoogs, Liberations, and more, that they've got their tiny space crammed with. It's a cool shop, they let me walk around and try a bunch of stuff out, take photos, and everything, without buying a dang thing. It is terribly expensive, and some gear is priced strangely ($1000 for a Yamaha CS-1X ???)."

Update via David: 5G price guide

Playing DarkEnergy2 by MS-20 mini with Log/Exp Amp

Published on Jan 5, 2014 Motohiko Takeda·63 videos

Update:

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roland system 100m - New Flickr Shots

flickr by hinotori mortal. Title link takes you to more shots of Five-G in Japan. Five-G is a vintage synth shop. You might recognize Five-G from the poster in this SMS 2000 shot.

5G Tokyo 2015 Walkthrough

Published on Aug 22, 2017

"Wander around the vintage synth wonderland they call 5G and dream…"

The infamous Five G synth shop in Toyko. You can find some previous posts featuring Five G here.

TFoM2022 | official digest video

video upload by Tokyo Festival of Modular

Tokyo Festival of Modular 2022
“New Breath”

2022.04.17. 12:00-22:00
場所 : Contact Tokyo

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Five G - Japon

flickr By making_sound
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"makingsound.free.fr/..." [Googlish]

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Five G Moog TAURUS RACK

via Five G

via pokmijn

"It is the one that MOOG TAURUS was rackmounted with FiveG.JAPAN ON/OFF of the note and the pipe bend and ON/OFF of the MOD wheel and GLIDE can be controlled with MIDI."

TB-303 Clone＜BassBoy+[Juteon-Shonen]＞ 【重低音少年】 Sound Demo

Published on Jan 8, 2014 電子音屋ヨクシー·47 videos

"TB-303のクローンであるセルビア共和国製の音源ボードBassBoy+を
日本人のエンジニアによりオリジナルでガジェット化した「重低音少年」という製品の
サウンド・デモを私、電子音屋ヨクシーのオリジナル動画でお届けします。
小さいながらも、そのサウンドは分厚く、よりTB-303に近い音がします。
圧巻の暴れ具合をご堪能下さい。

※途中のDelayサウンドは本機の機能ではありません

The sound demonstration of the product called "重低音少年" which it was original,
and made sound source board BassBoy+ made in the Republic of Serbia which was
a clone of TB-303 a gadget by a Japanese engineer
I send it by me, an original movie of electric sound organizer YOΞ.
The sound is thick although being small, and I hear a sound nearer TB-303.
Of the best part act violently, and, please thoroughly enjoy condition.
※ The Delay sound on the way is not a function of this plane

音源ボード「BASSBOY+」についてはこちらのメーカーサイトをご覧下さい。
Look at this maker site about sound source board "BASSBOY+".
http://www.mikroe.com/add-on-boards/a...

「重低音少年」については販売店 Five Gのサイトでご覧下さい。
Look in a site of store Five G about "重低音少年".
http://www.fiveg.net/

デモ・トラック、Freeダウンロード⇒https://soundcloud.com/yo-17
電子音屋ヨクシーのブログ⇒http://yoshitb303.blogspot.jp/

Please listen to Demo Track⇒https://soundcloud.com/yo-17"

SMS 2000 - New Flickr Shots

Update: Be sure to read the updates below and do not miss the links. Looks like we finally have a contendor to the Bahn Sage. Elhardt, you have some competiton. Is it or isn't the SMS 2000 real?

flickr set by synthfanKH.

Looks like we are on a "dream synth" roll this week.

Update: Click images for much larger shots.
Update: Looks like these shots got traction on AH. Word is that it's a fake which I guessed as well. Via Mike Fiction on AH: "As a photographer I can tell you the second photo is 100% a fake. The depth of field is way too great. It's an indoor shot, light would have been low so even with a fast iso it would have been impossible to get such great depth of field with a fast enough shutter speed to have frozen things like the womans hair. There would have been motion blur. The A in alesis is just as in focus as the black pole at the far side of the tent."

Update: Some still think it could be real. If you blow up the second shot you will see the name tag reads, Mr. Kirikax (click for more info).

Via Nick on AH:
"I'm still of the opinion that it's some new prototype synth by Seekers, the Japanese company (formerly Sky Soundlab) who made the Voice Spectra vocoder (seen on the left in the photo with mics attached). They were trying to build a full featured and pricey monosynth about 6 years ago.

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Roland G-505 Guitar Synthesizer Controller, GR-300 Polyphonic Guitar Synth

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via this listing

"Up for sale, a 1980s Roland G-505 Guitar Synthesizer Controller and GR-300 Polyphonic Guitar Synthesizer [SN 090427] in 100% original condition and in perfect working order, complete with the original 24-pin cable. First introduced in 1980 as a follow-up to the GR-500, the GR-300 is perhaps best known for its usage by Pat Metheny; produced at the venerable Fujigen factory in Japan, this versatile guitar synth can deliver a huge range of decidedly unique sounds, with a hexaphonic fuzz circuit, VCO synth, and combinations of the two. This GR-300 comes complete with the G-505 Guitar Controller, taking its design cues from a Strat with a sleek ash body, one-piece maple neck, and a trio of single coil pickups alongside the synth pickup.

The G-505 Guitar Controller guitar has plenty of natural sparkle and shimmer, and the Roland PU-134S pickups deliver a bevy of Strat-style tonalities via the five-way selector switch. Weighing 8lbs 12oz, the G-505 has been professionally setup here at Mike & Mike’s Guitar Bar with 10-46 strings, low action, and spot-on intonation.

The maple neck has a slender C-shaped profile carve with good shoulders, gaining appreciably more heft and roundness in the upper registers, measuring .810” deep at the 1st fret and 1.015” at the 12th. The fretboard exhibits light finger wear through the gloss, and the slender fretwire ostensibly benefits from a level and crown in this guitar’s lifetime, showing virtually no wear. This Roland plays cleanly up the 25 1/2“ scale with a straight neck and a responsive, optimally-adjusted truss rod, and the nut measures 1.650” (42mm) in width. The headstock features a bullet truss rod nut and gold “GR” logo, and the Gotoh tuning machines function reliably. The back of the headstock retains the silver foil serialized sticker.

The electronics on the guitar controller are untouched, with a control scheme including Master Volume, Guitar Tone, Guitar/EG Balance (Blend), VCF Cutoff Frequency, VCR Resonance, and LFO (Vibrato) Depth knobs. Additionally, the three-position Mode toggle enables on-the-fly switches between Hexaphonic Fuzz only (Mode 1), Fuzz and VCO synth tandem (Mode 2) and Synth only (mode 3). The controls are capped by the original sextet of knobs with ridged grips for easy adjustments, and the three-ply white pickguard rounds out the plastics.

Cosmetic wear on the gloss Metallic Blue finish includes a number of nicks and dings on the body as a whole, most prominent along the lower bout perimeter, with some finish chipping adjacent to the output jacks, and some very subtle texturing in the finish on the top. The neck profile retains its smooth gloss, with a handful of shallow marks that have no impact on playability.

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five g analogue synth store harajuku

flickr by ninjaspew

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Dave Smith Instruments OB-6

Published on Sep 12, 2016 ED電音頻道 E.D.Music Channel

"*Special thanks to: Five G
Copyright: E.D.Music Co."

Synth Shop Hieber-Lindberg, Munich, Germany

via cheater cheater:

"I thought your readers could be interested that there's
such a nice place in Munich for synths.. it's not exactly Five G but
then they don't have to fly to Japan for it.. :)

Hi guys,
Last Saturday I have visited the music shop Musikhaus Hieber-Lindberg
in Munich, Germany. I was tipped off by Florian, who said it could be
interesting. You can find their website at
http://www.hieber-lindberg.de (unfortunately only in German, but it's
easy to find your way around, and Google Translate works well)

The Shop

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Xpress (320 x 240)

YouTube via prophei. don't miss 1:46 for some heavy synth spotting at Tokyo's Five-G.
"Coming out of days of illness, I wrote a new dance track a few days ago using mostly my Livewire AFG, self-built ssm 2044 filter (fonitronik), my self-built and modified x0xb0x and pro tools HD3 system.

Yesterday, starting to relapse with my illness, I experimented with making a music video for the song using only some vacation pics from Asia... and apple's iMovie.

While the results are much better than I anticipated, using iMovie was as frustrating and evil as imaginable. It felt like editing with an application that hates you.

As much as I am typically a HUGE apple fan, BIG THUMBS DOWN. Next time, I'm going with adobe after effects, premiere pro or even apple final cut pro.

I posted this on youtube twice, but had to remove it due to sync between the video and music being lost. I then uploaded to Vimeo, even worse! Looks like this worked now only at 320 x 240. Link to original 640 x 480 file below...

If sync still sucks, you can download the video here: http://www.prophei.com/video/Xpress_Y..."

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14 SCI Prophet 5's At Five g in Japan

flickr by Acusonic24

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TFoM2022 | official digest video |

video upload by Tokyo Festival of Modular

"Tokyo Festival of Modular 2022
“New Breath”

2022.04.17. 12:00-22:00
場所 : Contact Tokyo

TFoM2022 出演TFoM2022 出演者

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Roland Jupiter-8

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via this auction

"This is apparently a two-owner, never-gigged unit, only used in no-smoking environments, with condition as seen in photos. There's no smell of smoke or mildew or anything.

I bought this about four years ago at Tokyo's famous vintage service/retail shop, Five-G in Harajuku. Last week I tried to get them to do a point inspection but they just about refused, taking pride in how they set it up the first time. "If there's a problem bring it in, otherwise there's no need for a checkup so soon after the last one," they said. (If you buy it and want to pay extra for the checkup and are OK with the delay, I'm happy to arrange it. I'm absolutely positive the checkup won't find anything, though, and if it does I'll pay the repair out of the purchase price.)"

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