25 Jan
2009
25 Jan
'09
5:18 a.m.
On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 18:31 -0800, Ken Restivo wrote:
... they just sit in the corner of someone's
studio, collecting dust, until some random guy (me) gets called in to do some backup and
archiving sysadmin tasks, and stumbles upon them:
http://www.restivo.org/misc/mooggasm/
This one is Serial Number 1037/1038 (a FrankenMoog?), made by Mr. Moog himself, in April
of 1971. Discrete transistors, NO OP AMPS, apparently impossible to keep in tune.
No, it doesn't work, alas. The power amp section works (speakers go BOOM! when the
thing is powered up, and noise can be heard when its output is turned up), but only OSC3
can be heard, faintly, as if it were bleed-through. No sound at all from OSC 1 or 2.
Can't be that hard, can it? There's nothing very complicated about old
analogue synths...
I don't need yet another project, otherwise
I'd offer to buy it, strictly for the cool factor... if it were ever working again it
would be SO sweet.
Shame it's on the wrong side of the planet. I would certainly take a
look at it.
Gordon