Blog Articles

Binson Echorec Varispeed Modification

If a standard Echorec was considered adequate for Barrett, Gilmour, and Page, why would you modify a vintage Echorec with a variable speed motor?

Soundgas Studio Services Update

We now have limited slots available each month - thanks to our engineer, Ben Hirst, and also to our fine beta testers who've sent us some amazing...

Regeneration: Synths Beyond Sustainability

Most modern synths, effects and amps are surely more energy efficient than their predecessors, but what is the cost of continuing to deplete precious resources by...

New Premier Guitar Article: Modulation Nation

Synthfest 2018 Report – Soundgas Bring The Noise

EMS Synthi Hi-Fli

Tony goes deep into the Synthi HiFli - history, some of the ways it can be used, and the different versions we've had through the studio...

How To Buy Vintage Gear Well (Part One)

The True Cost Of Vintage Gear (The Quest For Techs Part 2)

Part two of our series about the people who can fix all this old gear, people who really KNOW it inside out. And it’s also about...

Daphne Oram’s ‘Still Point’ – BBC Proms 2018

We were asked to supply six Roland RE-201 Space Echoes for the first full performance of Daphne Oram's "Still Point" as part of the BBC Proms'...

Machines With Soul

Not a another guide to Synthi AKS, but an account of my experience encountering and using one of these remarkable instruments.

A Fairlight, a Mellotron FX & a Robot Monkey Head

In 2018 our intrepid explorer Gid ventured to Bradford to delve beneath the Science & Media Museum as part of a workshop on 'Objects of Electronic Sound...

Which Binson Echorec?

A brief guide and a few personal thoughts on some Echorec models we've had in recently, including T5E, Baby, B1/B2, T7E, PE603-T, EC 3 and some...