Music
My name is Gavin Tyte and I am a synthoholic. I love anaog(ue) synths. I remember seeing that dude with the curly hair on he film Fame with his Moog and I thought, "One day that is going to be me." Okay, so I ended up being bald but the hair is unimportant. What matters are the synths.
My sister bought Jarre's first offerings in the mid 1970s - Oxygene, then Equinoxe and finally Magnetic Fields. I was six years old and I was hooked. I listened to those tracks over and over again. Ahh, the blend and depth of synth sounds. Later, in the early 1980s I was introduced to Depeche Mode. I still remember watching 'See you' on Top of the Pops. It was all down hill from there.
My first synth was a second-hand Moog Prodigy. I hadn't a clue what to do with the thing. I bought it for £40 complete with box and manual. I have owned various analogue synths over the years - mostly Roland offerings. When I was 15 years old my Saturday job was working in a music shop. This put me in touch with all the latest synths and lots of trade-ins - even if they were all out of my price range; DXs, Jupiters, EPSs. When the Roland D50 was released in 1987 I thought nothing could ever sound better.
My first 'new' synth was a Casio HT3000 purchased in about 1988, and from there I progressed through the Roland sample range (U110, U20, D70, JD990, etc.) until computers came of age. Back in the day I made 'Tape of the Month' in Music Technology magazine. I was chuffed to bits!
I studied sound engineering at Manchester School of Sound Recording and then at university I designed a digital noise reduction system. It didn't work very well, but I had fun trying! After university, I spent 18 months setting up and running a commercial recording studio - one of the first ProTools computer-only-based studios. I went on to be a sound designer for a virtual reality company and then went into teaching Music Technology to degree level.
These days my setup comprises of an Apple Macbook, Logic Pro and an M-Audio Sono 88 keyboard. Of course I have some lovely mics and my PMC AB1s with Bryston 3B amp for monitoring.
So, what you will hear on these pages (once they are all uploaded) is going to be lots of synths. Lots and lots of synths. Enjoy.