Five Spooky Synths at Gearnews

Spooky Season may be over, but every day is Halloween and Stranger Things are coming! Check out the hair-raising Gearnews.com feature on spooky synths, including Cherry Audio's Quadra synthesizer.

Ah, Halloween. The most wonderful time of the year. You can keep your Christmas. I’d much rather take to the streets dressed as a monster while the sounds of spooky synths fill the air. I mean, it has to be synthesizers, doesn’t it? Ever since cash-strapped independent filmmakers started using synths in their horror soundtracks in the late 1970s, the entire genre – hell, the idea of terror in general – has become associated with synths. From the steady analog pulse of a John Carpenter film to the modern reinterpretation of Stranger Things, it’s synths all the way down and under the ground.

To get in the mood for Halloween – or really any day, as every day is Halloween, after all – here are five spooky synths along with some of the movies and TV shows that they’ve soundtracked.