The Phantasia Moog modular synth
You are probably familiar with the great videos by Alex Ball, covering all kinds of synthesizer stories, historical facts and everything else for the Synth enthousiast. Recently Alex Ball published …
Korg Electronic Musical Instruments 1978
In our pile of vintage synth & gear brochures we found this 1978 Korg brochure offering the great PS analog synthesizer series, the MS range and the -then- new VC-10 …
Rosen Sound – synth gear
We discovered Rosen Sound – a vintage gear sales company also offering a ‘Synth cabin’ with a lot of vintage synths to play with – they even rent synths. Rosen …
Radio Electronics 1973 – Paia 2700 DIY synth
In 1973, Radio Electronics (magazine) published a series of articles for building your own modular synthesizer, created by John Simonton. This DIY project resulted in the Paia 2700 synthesizer, which …
The Gear of classic Synthpop
Reverb recently published this article about gear used in Synthpop – such as by Gary Numan and Depeche Mode. Although it is certainly not an indepth nor complete article – …
Peter Forrest: The A-Z of Analogue Synthesisers
The definitive encyclopedia of classic synths Part One A-M & Part Two N-Z – Reviewed by John Alex Hvidlykke The title says it all: Analogue Synthesizers from A to Z. …
Sound of Tangerine Dream – ‘White Eagle’
What is your favorite Tangerine Dream track? – Mine are ‘Bent cold sidewalk’ and ‘White Eagle‘ the latter also known as ‘The Mädchen auf der Treppe‘. (oh well – there …
EMS Vocoder brochure
In our series Pile of vintage brochures we now present you the EMS Vocoder. Below you will find: Scans of the original (UK) brochure, dating from (approx) 1970 Specifications (taken …
The Story of Dark Side of the Moon (#3)
The recent 50th Anniversary of Pink Floyd‘s ‘Dark Side of the Moon‘ triggered me to compile a series of posts on this terrific 50-year old timeless album by…. because I …
The Story of Dark Side of the Moon (#2)
The recent 50th Anniversary of Pink Floyd‘s ‘Dark Side of the Moon‘ triggered me to compile a series of posts on this terrific 50-year old timeless album by…. because I …