Soundgas launches prize draw for vintage-inspired synth sample packs

Soundgas has turned its archive-minded sample world into a prize draw that lands squarely in vintage-synth culture: buy any Soundgas Sounds pack between June 3 and July 30, 2026, and you are entered to win a Soundgas Type 636P or a Soundgas Type G, two hand-built preamp pedals valued at more than £2,000 combined.

That pairing makes sense for a company that has spent years selling the feel of old hardware as much as the hardware itself. Soundgas says Tony and Jo Miln founded the business in the early 2000s as a restoration project, and it now operates from a custom workshop in Derbyshire while restoring hundreds of tape echoes, amplifiers, effects units and vintage synthesizers. The company has also handled high-profile work, including restored Roland RE-201 Space Echoes for Still Point by Daphne Oram at the BBC Proms in 2021.

The sample packs at the center of the promotion are built from that same mindset. Soundgas says the Soundgas Studio collection is made from rare and unusual gear, including the Suiko ST-50 Poetry Trainer, the Soundgas Type 636P and Chase Bliss Habit, with sounds shaped into dub-heavy delays, reverb-soaked rhythms, glitchy synth beds, loops, beats, one-shots, pads and vintage atmospheres. For readers who chase not just instruments but the textures around them, that is the hook: the company is bottling a very specific corner of the old-gear universe and turning it into something immediately usable in modern production.

The prize itself is solid enough to draw serious attention. Soundgas lists the Type 636P at £1,554 including VAT and the Type G at £594 including VAT, and the draw is part of its Soundgas Sounds prize-draw series. Soundgas says 10% of proceeds from the current promotion will go to Music Venue Trust, the UK charity that protects grassroots music venues. The company has previously directed Gasaways donations to MAP Charity Leeds, which works with young people in Leeds who are outside mainstream education.

That charitable angle matters because these draws tend to sit on a smaller, more committed playing field than a mass-market giveaway. Soundgas has previously said some monthly draws were capped at 2,500 tickets, and one earlier launch had fewer than 800 entries at announcement time. The winner of this run will be announced live on Soundgas’ Instagram channel at 4pm BST on July 30, 2026, giving the promotion the same mix of collector anticipation, boutique gear lust and community purpose that has long defined Soundgas itself.