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There is a Roland CUBE guitar amp for every guitarist, with over 2 million amplifiers sold since 1978. So what CUBE is the one for you? Contributed by Christian Moraga for the Roland Australia Blog. Choosing a guitar amp can be a daunting task. Hey all, I'm wondering if there is a website that accurately helps you figure out the date your Boss pedals were manufactured. I'm curious to know if my TR-2 is new or 'new old stock' - I may get it modified for the classic volume drop issue.
So, I just checked my data base. DCB ports became standard on Jup 8 starting at serial $ 282880. For those who aren't aware, Roland's first 2 digits are a month/year from when Roland started and the last 4 digits are totals produced Caveat: The Jupiter 8 serial numbers started at 100 rather than 0.
Serial # 030104 was the fifth Jup-8 made. Highest serial number recorded ( I might have another one slightly higher) was XX3269 making at least 3169 Jup 8's produced.3269- 2880 = 389 Jup 8a's produced. Hope that helps. Yep, the Roland/Boss serial number system uses a 6-digit number from some time in the late 70s till the late 80s IIRC. During that period the first two digits represent a month, as urge says, but it's a cyclical sequence and not directly related to the actual calendar names. For example, 25 would be December '82, 26 would be Jan '83, etc. The number resets to 00 after 99, which can cause confusion to those not certain of production dates, as there is more than one instance of at least parts of the range of two digits.A quick and dirty, but not completely debugged, s/n decoder can be found here.
Gs wrote:Wow, that's not a lot of units. No wonder these things go for (IMHO) some 2 or 3 times their otherwise vintage market value. I wonder how many Prophet 5's, Poly-Sixes, or OBXa's (or other competitor polysynths) were produced. Got to me more than 3200. I mean, only a few years down the pike, hundreds of thousands of DX7's and M1's were being produced by these companies.
Was it really that more expensive/slow to produce/assemble analog components in a factory setting, than digital components?The DX7 sold in such high numbers in part because of its price. It cost just under 2000 bucks US when it first appeared, half or less of the price of a P5 or OBXa/OB8. Its electric piano patches may also have helped sell DX7s, as the sound became ubiquitous fairly quickly, and it allowed musicians to replace their Rhodes and other electric/electronic pianos with something that produced more sounds and was lighter than those instruments.Wikipedia claims the production numbers for all versions of the Prophet 5 was 6000(, the OB8 3000.
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Please add a detailed description to posts and titles.READ THIS! I am considering buying a used vintage JC-120. The seller claims the amp was made in 1975, which I find highly unlikely as that's the year the JC-120s were first produced. He did send me a serial number, which is #687359. I googled decoding Roland serial numbers but there are a bunch of different sometimes contradictory threads and I was unable to get anywhere on my own.He also sent photos of the amp:Any thoughts on how I can date it? I don't need a 1975 model specifically, but I'd love to find a 70s or 80s JC-120.Thanks!.
Ask for the date codes on the speakers, you can use the to date those at least. There's a lot of random stuff out there about Roland dating, as you said, so hard to tell. The bright switch was apparently added in the 80s, and this one doesn't seem to have it though it could be covered by volume knob from the angle of the picture.Edit - forgot that Roland is a Japanese company, it may not use the standard EIA codes on their parts. Usually when serial numbers fail to help, you can use EIA codes on pots, speakers, transformers, larger resistors and caps and such for approximate dating. If they don't have stamped codes on these parts, it's hard to say.