Brand New! 360 Systems Instant Replay HD Audio 2.0 Replacement Faceplate Overlay

Description

This is the newest product from Synhouse, available now.
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Two of the photos in this listing are scary photo collages of some of the many problems with the old Instant Replay overlay that are solved with the installation of this new Synhouse overlay, which is of a quality far superior to the old one in many ways, this is the quality and details the Synhouse overlays have quickly become known for.
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Completely renew the control panel of your 360 Systems Instant Replay Hard Disk Audio 2.0 with this brand new replacement overlay manufactured of the highest quality polycarbonate and adhesive with crystal clear printing and brilliant colors.
It is properly made of a sandy-textured polycarbonate substrate material, with die-cut holes for the buttons, potentiometers, and LCD assembly, and has the correct rectangular clear plastic windows over the audio level meter LEDs. Masterful color matching to the original makes it perfect. It is correct construction details like this that other previous sellers of synthesizer/drum machine overlays have not had.
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The original faceplate overlay on the 360 Systems Instant Replay machines are absolute garbage. The supplier that 360 Systems used were a bunch of complete idiots who produced what is the worst quality overlay that I have seen in a lifetime on any production machine of any kind, and 360 themselves weren't much better, continuing to use that trash with twice updated artwork again and again even when ANYONE could see that they looked horrible and were delaminating even on machines that had little use. I have seen MANY Instant Replay machines in MINT condition aside from the overlay being cracked across the front and delaminated between the layers.
This Synhouse project here was somewhat prolonged by some failure analysis work on the original overlays, but it was worth it because a lot was learned.
Three mistakes they made in making the old one were NOT repeated here.
From an product engineering standpoint, the old one had three fundamental problems/failures:
1) Wrong process. The artwork wasn't properly reversed and silkscreened onto the bottom side of clear polycarbonate substrate (like on a 1990s black reissue E-mu SP1200 sampling drum machine, those held up well, and without excessive wear or damage, still look the same as they did new, because they were made with a different process than the ones E-mu used on the 80s, those were trash that shed like a dog with any decent amount of use). The artwork of the 360 Systems Instant Replay overlay was just printed on the top of white material with adhesive backing (I don't believe it was epoxy ink or even silkscreened at all). After that, a piece of very slick (meaning adhesive doesn't make a lasting bond with it) clear plastic was glued on top of it, like a laminated plastic menu at Denny's.
2) Wrong material. That top layer of plastic is garbage, it's the same crap that a disposable water bottle is made of. It's not good, and the glue doesn't stick to it (Try gluing a school picture onto the side of a water bottle with any glue that exists, and see how long it stays there...), which is why it soon lifts up around the edges, and moisture gets under it and causes weird discoloring, you can see that in two of my photos how this top plastic is just a totally separate thing that pops right off, and when it does, it has NO color on it, because it wasn't printed on the back side. Additionally, it's cheap crap that gets stressed out and you can see that the slight bend at the front of the panel has put hundreds of cracks in that bent area, and right where everyone can see it the most.
3) Wrong thickness. It's too thick to make that bend, and this creates a upward force of springing back trying to straighten itself out, and that forces the delaminating, and the cracking is worse.
Just take a quick look with an eBay search of 360 Systems Instant Replay, and you will see that it is difficult to find one of these machines with an overlay that still looks perfect, nearly all of them look noticeably bad, and some of them are horrible, some so bad the owners ripped them off and just put labels on there to mark the functions of the keys.
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Synhouse Multimedia Corporation has been in business for 20 years and has been manufacturing from day one. Synhouse existed for 4 years informally before incorporation, and was officially incorporated in 1999. Twenty years later, those first products (the Synhouse Original MIDIJACK, MIDIJACK II, and Moogiestyle MIDIJACK) are still being manufactured.
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There is a minimum shipping price for all of my small components and a different minimum for a very low value item or for something or more. However, I can ship almost any number of parts for the international shipping that it shows for most of those items. So if you want, for example, an SP1200 overlay and some knobs and some switches, or knobs and switches and potentiometers or whatever, just let me know IN ADVANCE and I will set up a special listing for you so that you will only pay the shipping once. This is if you tell me IN ADVANCE, not if you ask for it later because any shipping money paid has already been docked 4.9% by PayPal and another 10% by eBay and that money is not coming back. Yes, eBay takes 10% of the stated shipping charge since 2011, and PayPal has always taken 4.9% of that money for international and 3% for domestic. So let me know in advance and I can set it up so that you can save a lot of money by buying and shipping the parts together.
I can also set up special listings for different quantities of items sometimes. Usually the price is the same per item but I can set it up and that saves a lot of money on shipping.