# Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!

- Site: Analog Industries
- Author: Chris Randall
- Date: 2006-03-24
- URL: https://analogindustries.com/2006/03/hard-core-gear-porn-friday-4/

![Hard-Core Gear Porn Friday!!!](https://analogindustries.com/images/blog/116-1608_IMG_JPG.jpg)

You always know that when I put up a picture of Vangelis or Tomita or Wendy Carlos gear, I consider it something of a cop-out, but I had a really busy week, and was unable to do my normal Thursday afternoon search. (Read: no one sent me a link this week!) On top of working on Discord 2, our label had a release, and I'm doing ads for the UK music magazines.

So, I head to my "gimmees" folder and pull out another old standby. Pictured above is part of the absolutely ludicrous [synth collection](http://www.garethjones.com/pics/erasure/vinceSynths.htm) of Vince Clarke. I, like everyone that spent their teens in the 80s, was a fan of Depeche Mode and Yazoo. I always found Erasure to just be a little bit too gay for my taste. (Nothing against music that tends gay, of course. I'm secure enough in my masculinity to think that Oscar G. & Ralph Falcon's "Dark Beat" is a pretty thick track.)

Anyways, I don't even know what to call half that shit, and I'm pretty well-versed in matters analog. Some better pics of the studio [here,](http://www.garethjones.com/pics/erasure/erasureKeys.htm) including Vince & Andy. And, of course, the most famousest of all the pictures of the Dome can be seen [here,](http://usuarios.lycos.es/audionautas/Paranoias/vinceclarkestudio.jpg) from a late-80s issue of Keyboard.

Interestingly enough, with all that shit, Erasure has gone pretty much all soft-synth (Oh, the tragedy! The shame!) according to the [Ask Erasure](http://www.erasureinfo.com/features/askerasure_07.html) page on their site. Well, Vince, if you're looking for somewhere to store all that gear, I would be glad to offer my studio...

## Comments (12)

**tom vx** (2006-03-24):

Custom DNA Microarrays

Used biotech equipment

GeneMachines PolyPlex 2

Dna Sequencer

MerMade Oligo Syntheziers
(BioAutomation has a complete line of DNA/RNA Synthesizers
www.BioAutomation.com)

the last one is close in an unrelated to music kinda way....
i'll click anyway!

**davetron5000** (2006-03-24):

Those new digital DNA sequencers suck. I'm going to ebay to find an analog one...

**Chris Randall** (2006-03-24):

Snort. I was waiting for a comment like that... It took almost 6 months.

-CR

**studio nebula** (2006-03-24):

Hmm... four ads for Alesis dealers, one for some sort of "mobile" sound. Decisions, decisons. I don't like Alesis gear and I don't have a cell phone...

--Adam

**shamann** (2006-03-24):

So all that gear makes it really hot in the dome, or what's the deal with all the shirtlessness?

**dm** (2006-03-24):

seeing a emu modular stacked above a 2500, makes me want to stick in knife into someone. you could just substitue a emu/arp combo like that with a 10 speed bike in the following meatwad quote (ATHF episode #8) to further illustrate my feelings.

"Hey, now guys look. I do not want to do anything illegal, here...but I will kill somebody..in front of their own momma to get a 10-speed and if anybody testifies against me I'll gouge their eyes out."

a pictures worth a thousand words though, right? so heres the audio:

http://www.mcpeepants.com/sounds/008revengeofthemooninites/revengeofthemooninites5.mp3

best audio clip ever

**the8bitdeity** (2006-03-24):

it must be really hot in the dome, and lots and lots of discipline must be enforced around all the rare synth gear.

**brandon daniel** (2006-03-24):

Well, in this picture it's a bunch o' system 100m j cabinets. The weird silver blue and red thing is (I believe) his custom made 6x arp sequencer clone.

**inteliko** (2006-03-24):

DNA,RNA synths...dirty nasty analog..really nice arpeggiator

**giantm** (2006-03-25):

Why are the guys in the pictures wearing less clothing than me?

**ortho** (2006-03-25):

brokeback modular

**Carbon111** (2006-03-27):

His Serge is upside down...I seriously doubt anyone ever noticed. ^_^