Moog Guitar

This review takes a look at the Moog Guitar, Moog Music’s guitar that incorporates elements of Bob Moog’s pioneering synthesizer designs. Read more…

Moog Music has released the production model of the Moog Guitar, the Moog Guitar E1.

The video above offers an overview of the Moog E1. It offers the same technology as the original Paul Vo Collector Edition of the Moog Guitar, but for $3,000 less.

That puts it at about $3,500, though, so it’s still out of the price range of most.

If you’re not familiar with the Moog Guitar, it combines a classic Moog synth filter with several new guitar technologies to open up new styles and sounds for guitarists. It’s not a true guitar synthesizer, but a hybrid that offers its own sonic palette.

Detail on the Moog Guitar below.

If you’ve used the Moog Guitar, leave a comment with your thoughts! Read more…

Julian Lage and Brett Comeaux stopped by the Moog Factory and checked out The Moog Guitar.

This was right next to the Voyager production line. You can hear Voyagers being built in the background.

This demo video, from Moog Music, shows how the Moog Guitar’s CV input can be used in combination with the new Etherwave Plus, which has CV outputs.

Guitarist are probably going to freak out about this – but the Etherwave’s CV outputs are especially cool.

The Asheville Citizen Times has an article today that looks at Moog Music and how they’ve found international success:

Only a few businesses inspire such fierce loyalty that their customers tattoo the name of the company on their bodies. Harley-Davidson comes to mind as one. Another is Moog Music, local manufacturers of legendary keyboard synthesizers and effects pedals for various instruments.

“We have photos that people send us of their Moog tattoos,” said company president Mike Adams, who doesn’t have one. Yet.

Founded by inventor and sound engineer Bob Moog more than 50 years ago, the company’s influence on the worlds of music and sound are part of what inspires customer loyalty. Moog was an early pioneer of electronic music, and his name has become synonymous with the field. He lived and worked in Asheville for more than 30 years.

Every piece of equipment carrying the Grammy-award-winning Moog name is produced at the company’s warehouse on Riverside Road.

The company moved to this location in 2005, the same week that Bob Moog died. Since then, the business has expanded by adding employees and creating new products. When Adams started working at Moog six years ago, the company had only eight employees. Now there are 40.

Adams said he’s been cautious and produces only products that customers want. For example, he’s reissuing a bass pedal synthesizer first built in the 70s. He put the specifics out on the Moog Web site, which includes an active forum of music enthusiasts. Within 10 days, he had 300 orders for the synthesizer, each of which included a $500 deposit. Now he’s got to build the synthesizers, which probably won’t be delivered until late 2009. Every piece of Moog equipment is made to order, so there’s no back stock.

“That’s the kind of confidence in this company our customers have. They’ll put down a deposit on something we haven’t even built because they know it will be great,” Adams said.

Full article here.