Minimoog’s missing link: how an icon was born in summer of 1970

How did the Minimoog take shape – and set the course of synthesizer and musical instrument history? Among many revelations in JoE Silva’s The Minimoog Book for BJOOKS, we learn how the synth’s early prototypes evolved into the instrument we know today. Read the excerpt here.

Here’s Ben Burtt breaking down every single iconic sound design from Star Wars, film by film

If you love sound, it’s impossible not to be enchanted by the work of Ben Burtt. His approach to sound design for Star Wars was inventive, surprising, organic — let’s let him talk about it. A lot. It’ll make you want to grab your mic. Jamming air hammers!

Peter Kirn - May 4, 2023

May the 4th: KORG reissues ARP 2600 FS in limited run, for your R2D2 sounds (Gallery)

One of the most sought-after instruments of all time is back in the form of its complete, authentic recreation (“FS”). It’s a Reverb Shop-only sale for the USA, in a rare chance to grab this instrument – and another excuse to recall how it created iconic sounds from Herbie Hancock to, yes, R2D2. May the 4th be with you.

Peter Kirn - May 4, 2023

T-Rex recreates the Binson Echorec Magnetic Disk Delay – look, it spins!

Peter Kirn - April 18, 2023

Arturia LX-24 recreates 1978 Lexicon 224 reverb – but don’t miss the 2023 flipside

Peter Kirn - April 4, 2023

BOSS DS-1W is the DS-1’s first solid-state distortion pedal update in decades

Peter Kirn - October 6, 2022

Celebrate your Blue Monday with the choir sound from New Order – and Kraftwerk’s Orchestron

Peter Kirn - January 17, 2022

Dave Smith himself tours the Prophet-5 in a six-part series, one year later

Peter Kirn - November 16, 2021

An evocative album draws from Ukrainian sci-fi, in Cluster Lizard’s “Star Corsair”

Peter Kirn - October 18, 2021

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