Nice to see the Mk.3 ARPODYSSEY in your collection. I love the run-on text
(it seems so 21st century, not late '70s). That oen is my all time fave,
though I do have a soft spot for pre-DX Yamaha analogue instruments that
didn't bother mentioning the instrument, only the manufacturer in that
hyper-legible Yamaha typeface.
To anyone who thinks these things don't matter, a slightly off-topic story.
My uncle used to race cars back in the early '80s. One of his sponsors was
Sony. He might have two dozen decals on his dash viewable from the interior
camera, but only one was legible given the rather primitive in-car video
technology of the day. The power of clean graphics.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Jason Proctor <
jason@...> wrote:
> i've always been obsessed with synth back panels -
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http://redfish.net/backpanels/>
> crap collection right now but i hope to expand it.
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> it used to really bug me that TV shows like Top of the Pops etc would put
> black tape over the graphics to prevent advertising on the BBC. i thought
> they should carve guitars into basically the same shape and put black tape
> over their heads too! it's only fair.
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> what's everyone's favourite back panel? i think the first Emulator has a
> rad one. also Moog Source and... Prophet VS.
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> Fun topic. Got me thinking about when I was a teenager growing up in the
>> 1980's first becoming interested in synthesizers. I remember thinking it was
>> SO cool to have keyboards on an A-frame stand with "YAMAHA DX7" and
>> "Emulator II" facing the camera in music videos, photos, or on stage. Mostly
>> because back then there was no way I could ever realistically afford those
>> instruments. Fast-forward to many many years later, that stuck with me so
>> much that when I picked up a DX7IIFD and EII the cosmetic condition of the
>> names on the back really mattered to me!
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>> Howie
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