Moog Guitar

[madcap]

its fucking mind blowing, anyone heard of it. It came out this month i think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3SsYQrgcyA

infinite sustain has been a concept i thought was only possible in the depths of space, but leave it to Moog.

[Norton]

Would get one if I was good enough to play jazz.

[Jayster]

that does look wicked cool ;

but why do they not show any chords\riffing ?
is that a weakness ?

[SEEGERMANY]

Didn't Moog venture into the guitar market by adding components to a couple of late 70's Gibson models? I want to say it was the RD series. If I remember correctly, the units went over like a turd in a punch bowl.

[Nuclear Vampire]

That's pretty damn cool. I really like the slide stuff they showed.

[jacksoncsplayer]

Man that's pretty fuckin cool!

[RobRR]

For the $6500 that it costs, its has BETTER be fucking amazing. Though, the concept isnt new by any means... sustainers have been out for years now. And the muting is simply an amplified magnetic field dampening the strings, similar to if you put a passive pickup too close to the strings, just much stronger.

[Newc]

that does look wicked cool ;

but why do they not show any chords\riffing ?
is that a weakness ?

IIRC, the Moog synth is a mono-tone instrument. You get one note at a time, and cannot do chords.

For a sustainer, chords don't usually sound as good as single note passages because different strings naturally have different sustain, so your thinner strings will stop vibrating while the thicker strings continue.

What the world needs is a sustainer that you can set the harmonics and intensity for each string. Imagine being able to set your high strings for one mode and your low strings for the other.

:drool:

[Spivonious]

Did they just put an e-bow in a pickup? I'm confused.

[Newc]

Pretty much.

[Spivonious]

So why is it $6500? The effects they showed were neat, but maybe $200-$300 neat, not $6500.

[åron]

Shit.... talk about bad GAS. Unreal!