Trust me: there is a whole lot more to the VO than a Fernandes Sustainer, Ebow or Sustainiac…Wilbo touched on some of it.

I found an organic quality to this instrument that is often lacking in “electronic instruments”…very cool.

More later…

If you want to check it out. They didn’t seem too impressed with the sound either.

anyways i wish the Reason Accordions was the one that wasn’t a joke cause the ones in Gypsy are fairly poopy.

Well, I had my hopes up for an instrument that had the sustain features and had polyphonic processing (filtering and distortion per string). Well, Sounds like I’ll stick with the VG-99 for the time being. This does look cool, though. I’ll put it on the “neat but don’t NEED it” list.

“A week or so back I posted a thread about Moog coming to my small little guitar shop I work at to introduce their new guitar.

Well today was the day. The new guitar has alot of cool features but nothing too unheard of or out of the box. It’s very similar to the Fernadez sustainer guitar. The main feature of the guitar is the pickups, that make the strings vibrate on their own. It’s kind of like having an ebow on each on off the strings. There is also a feature that makes only the fretted strings vibrate. Along with that, there is another feature that does just the opposite. Instead of the pickups giving the guitar “positive energy” to make the strings vibrate, it can be reversed to give the strings “negative energy”. This gives the guitar a muted sound, very much like a banjo to my ears. The guitar connects to an expression pedal via a 5 pin cable and from there turns into a standard 1/4 inch. The guitar also has a cool sounding low pass filter effect built in. It also functions as a normal guitar.

The build of the guitar is top notch. It was really solid and felt nice. The problem is that it’s really feakin stupid looking though. It’s got a ghey quilt top and looks all fancy, which just isn’t for me. I was hoping it would be a big bulky silvertone looking thing. So if there is one thing i really didn’t like about the guitar, it’s the looks. It looks like something the like you’d see on TGP. Moog doesn’t actually make the guitars of course, I can’t remember the name of the company that the rep said was building them, but the guitar still has Moog’s name on it.

I really didn’t think the thing was all that great until i got to play it. You can do the most amazing volume swells for days with this thing . Unless they change the way this thing looks, i really couldn’t see myself owning one, especially considering the thousands of dollars it probably cost, but its still freakin cool to play around with.

anyways, Moog is releasing it on their site on April 1st (Don’t think it’s a joke like the mooger fooger radio thing was) and it should be at summer NAMM.

thank you and goodnight.