SynthTemple

Worship the synth.

A Melbourne-based music production studio built around a mind-blowing collection of vintage synthesizers, modulars, drum machines, samplers and effects.

02/06/2026

Piano bump in ➡️ too easy

21/05/2026

By now every Australian engineer would know of JLM Audio and their amazing line of studio outboard and audio kits. JLM also make a growing range of synthesizer upgrades too. Here I've installed the JLM Perfect 5 RAM and EPROM upgrade kits for the ReV 2 and Rev 3.0 Prophets. This is one of SynthTemple's Rev 3.0 units and this kit removes the need for a backup battery and will soon allow multiple patch banks to be loaded, effectively turning a Rev 3.0 Prophet into a Rev 3.3. The kit removes all of the problems of the original 3.0 CPU board - No more old and rare 6508 RAM chips, no more 2708 multi-voltage EPROM's, no more need for a memory backup battery. And you can install it yourself!

09/05/2026

Meet Synth Pod D - just plug your laptop in to start recording to your chosen DAW. This pod is Moog heaven, including a Memorymoog Plus, Model D, Polymoog 203a, Voyager and some keytar action with the Liberation. We paired the Moogs with the best of Sequential synths including a Prophet 5 (rev 3). Special guests include an Octave Plateau Voyetra 8, OSC OSCar, Roland V-Synth XT with vocoder and Linn LM-1 drum machine. With each synth pod having its own patchbay array, outboard effects, pre-amps, tuner, DIs, A/D and D/A, headphones, local monitors and MIDI we’ve made it super easy to get recording straight away to maximise your opportunity for exploration. Book Synth Pod D via the link in our bio. You don’t need to be a pro to book!

02/05/2026

An April highlight was having Melbourne purveyors of funk, live record full on 70s and 80s retro session sessions using a host of rare and unusual synthesizers and drum machines.
1. Oberheim DMX, Ult-sound DS-4 drum synthesiser and pads, Simmonds SDS 8 drum module (client owned) and Synapse drum pads (client owned)
2. As above but switching in the Linndrum in place of the DMX
3. Wurlitzer electric piano
4. Moog Minimoog Model D
5. Roland VP330 vocoder
6. Yamaha CP-70 electric piano
7. Roland GR-700 guitar synthesizer & G-707 guitar body (client owned) - thanks to Steve for repairing ahead of the session
8. Close up of drum synths and drum machines in 1 above
9. Time for a coffee break
10. Critical listening in Studio 2
11. on the .protools
Other vintage items from the SynthTemple collection used were:
Yamaha CS-80
PPG Wave 2.3
ARP Quadra model 2461
Roland Juno 60
Roland Juno 106
OSC OSCar
ARP Solina
Oberheim OB-X8
Rhodes Mark 7 electric piano
Lexicon model 200 digital reverb

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01/05/2026

Fun couple of lockout days earlier in April with 8 of the crew tracking live with Cam Trewin engineering. Such a unique groove using the best of the old and new tech. We set a new studio record on these sessions for using the most vintage gear on a booking. Can’t wait to hear and watch the final product - keep an eye out for it. Enjoy some BTS shots and, for the fellow gear nerds, watch out for our next post.

Thanks for bringing your creativity, professionalism and very special groove to our studio:
Bass
Drums Graeme Pogson
Keyboards & vocals Aaron Mendoza
Vocals
Percussion & vocals
Keyboards
Guitar
Guitar
Engineer

28/04/2026

The mighty PPG Waveterm B has had its refurb in the SynthTemple tech room and is ready to join the two PPG Wave 2.3 synths in SynthTemple Studio 1 along with the full sample disk library. Next into the tech room is the PRK FD weighted PPG controller/sample controller keyboard.

17/04/2026

What sorcery is this? How does such a tiny spring give such a huge and silky reverb sound? The EF-P2 Spring Reverb pedal by Echo Fix - Tape Echo Parts and Service has arrived at SynthTemple. Making the Linn Drum sound even more vintage! Vintage synths and pedals are made for each other, we use pedals constantly at the studio.

15/04/2026

Just finished setting up the 16 cue sends in DADman ahead of a couple of fun lockout days with .

11/04/2026

The SynthTemple studio pedal FX "crash cart" providing some support to one end of the System 700 with some Mozztronics optical compression.

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51 Barkers Road
Melbourne, VIC
3101

Website

https://www.synthtemple.com/

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