Golden Age of Synths as told by OMD
b'There have been many times over the last one hundred years where technology has changed the way we make music\\u2026\\n\\nTake the microphone, for example\\u2026before it came along, singers had to be naturally louder than the orchestra\\u2026they needed to have a voice that could reach the back rows of the theatre\\u2026but when the microphone came along, certain singers like Bing Crosby, realized that you could use it to create a whole new mood for singing by getting up close and personal\\u2026\\n\\nAmplification was another game-changer\\u2026at one point, you needed a dozen or more people in a band to fill the room with music\\u2026with amps, you needed fewer people to make as much noise\\u2026\\n\\nMagnetic tape and multitrack recording made it possible to create entirely new soundscapes, the kind you could never get in the real world\\u2026the studio became an instrument for new sonic frontiers\\u2026\\n\\nAnd then we had developments like the electric guitar\\u2014and I don\\u2019t need to tell you how much that changed everything\\u2026\\n\\nThis is how things were for the late 50s, all through the 60s, and into the 1970s\\u2026amps and mics and electric guitars and multi-track recording gear\\u2026those were the tools for making music\\u2026\\n\\nBut then there was another change in that started to really be felt in the mid-70s\\u2026a new era featuring electronic machines that made sounds that had never been imagined anywhere in the universe\\u2026\\n\\nSo many new possibilities opened up during an era that\\u2019s become known as \\u201cthe golden age of synthesizers\\u201d\\u2026everything changed\\u2014and changed fast\\u2026\\n\\nIf you\\u2019re into any flavour of today\\u2019s electronic music, you will find this fascinating\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'