Audio and Video Illusion called the McGurk Effect
December 19, 2012 – 2:05 pm | No Comment

It is true, music is best heard when your eyes are closed or if you can get really really close to the stage performer.
Everyone knows this because visual cues can at time be distracting. …

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Theremin – Electronics Illustrated 1960
December 21, 2010 – 8:52 pm | One Comment
Theremin – Electronics Illustrated 1960

For your pleasure is a scan from Electronics Illustrated’s June 1960 issue, describing the Theremin. It’s a great read – they almost sound like they’re describing some strange alien device, and it definitely gets …

Massive Synth Collection
August 26, 2010 – 1:09 pm | 2 Comments
Massive Synth Collection

Michel van Osenbruggen is a musician and synth collector from The Netherlands, and he produces music under the name Synth.nl. He had a friend over to take some pictures of his drool-inducing studio, and …

Didn’t buy your vintage analogue synths in 1989? Sucker.
August 11, 2010 – 9:50 pm | 6 Comments
Didn’t buy your vintage analogue synths in 1989?  Sucker.

Peter Forrest’s book ‘The a-z of Analog Synths’ contains graphs over time of the average selling price for pretty much every analogue synthesizer ever made.
The graphs are all extremely interesting, but what sticks out like …

Cats jumping on vintage synthesizers
March 8, 2010 – 4:11 pm | No Comment
Cats jumping on vintage synthesizers

from AutomaticGainsay:
“Just as you requested, here are a couple of cats getting their groove on with a number of exciting vintage analog synthesizers.”
Cats, vintage synths, What more can I say?

Mind-blowing vintage synth display
January 11, 2010 – 10:11 am | 2 Comments
Mind-blowing vintage synth display

Metunar from Austria created this video of the Synthesizer Meeting in Kufstein Austria that took place in 2009.
This is an incredible display of mostly vintage synthesizers that just makes me dream of being let loose …

JMJ Oxygene IV cover on vintage synths
November 20, 2009 – 11:46 am | One Comment
JMJ Oxygene IV cover on vintage synths

I have to credit Jean-Michel Jarre as being one of my inspirations to get into synths a long time ago.  The first time I heard Oxygene, my eyes were opened to a new type of …

Thomas P Heckman’s Studio
November 16, 2009 – 4:36 pm | 2 Comments
Thomas P Heckman’s Studio

In these 2 videos, Thomas P Heckman shows off his amazing collection of gear, in what he calls the “Synth Museum”. I’m not sure if it’s so much a museum, because he actually plays …

RJD2′s Studio
November 9, 2009 – 6:25 pm | 5 Comments
RJD2′s Studio

In this video, Ramble John Krohn (better known as the musician/producer RJD2) shows off his incredible home studio – while baking apple-raspberry cobbler a la mode.
RJD2 shows off his massive collection of synths, drum machines, …

Moby’s massive synth and drum machine stash
October 21, 2009 – 3:37 pm | One Comment
Moby’s massive synth and drum machine stash

This is a video of Moby’s studio apartment in Manhattan. It’s a synthesizer and drum machine playground, filled with ultra-rare gadgets, prized vintage synths, drum machines and bizarre electronics.
Enjoy.

For some reason, he seems to think …