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Originally Posted by CfNorENa  Pretty soon you'll be able to scan a dim photo of a poorly lit studio and identify every single machine in the picture, even if you can only see a corner of it. Trust me.  |
I've been doing this stuff for a couple years now and I still have trouble IDing a lot of synths in bad pictures. Mainly because it's memorization for the most part and there are a ton of synths to memorize, haha.
Even synths I'm familar with can look unfamiliar at odd angles/lighting too.
Though I have to say I recognized that Pro One right away. Not only because of the writing on the back, but because it's a synth I've lusted after for a few years now. But show some dim, fuzzy picture of say, a Rhodes Chroma and I'll have trouble figuring out what the heck it is.
If I have an idea of what it might be, I'll go to
Vintage Synth Explorer and look at the pictures to try and nail it down. For example, someone mentioned an MS20 on the right side of the pic--I noticed it too but I would have to look at pics to see if it for sure an MS20 and not an MS10.
Here's a pic I posted on VSE earlier today, it's a screenshot from a video posted
here. See how many of these synths you can ID at first glance. The ones in the foreground aren't that hard, but what about those in the background, on the 3-tier stand? Bonus points if you can ID the synth beneath the Minimoog without viewing the video.
