Moog guitar paul vo edition

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Please check the fields highlighted in red. Yes, that's correct Do not update. E-1 Paul Vo Collector's Edition. Solid Body Electric Guitars. Funky Moog filters.

The great quality guitar. Huge sonic potential. Prototype issues aside, both the magnetic and piezo sounds could be better. It's complex to use at first and frankly, out of the reach of most mere mortals. Moog is not exactly a stranger to the electric guitar. The new Moog Guitar, however, is completely different. Designed by Moog associate Paul Vo in conjunction with Zion Guitars owner Dale Brown Zion is building the guitar part of the project , the new instrument uses unique analogue circuitry that takes sustain guitar technology - most commonly employed by Fernandes - one step, no, actually quite a few steps, further.

Zion has been building drop-dead gorgeous 'boutique' style guitars for a couple of decades and the platform for the Moog Guitar is exactly that: a maple 'drop-top' boutique beauty. In terms of retail price, even without the fancy electronics, it would easily cost half, if not two-thirds of the hefty cost of the Moog package. We don't have space here to go into great detail on the guitar itself but it's all you'd expect, aside from perhaps a glued-in maple neck, as opposed to a bolt-on.

It's a big rounded neck too - The integration of the Moog part is classy. Note the black relieved headstock, leaving an almost Parker-like skeletal raised portion that mirrors the black control area relief - stylish and beautiful.

Turn the guitar over and you see a huge backplate covering the Moog electronics the separate battery compartment powers the piezo bridge system. A five-pin output socket on the guitar's side connects via the supplied cable to a mains powered footpedal, with audio out for the magnetic and piezo sounds and CV in , which also powers the electronics. A separate standard jack output is for piezo only, for example, if you're using a PA or acoustic amp.

Control-wise it's busy, with five rotary controls, five-way and three-way lever switches and a mini toggle. Where to start? Well first let's ignore the fancy electronic possibilities and listen to the guitar in both its magnetic and piezo modes. First off, the required special Moog strings don't feel great, as if they have some kind of coating.

Although they are roundwound they have a slightly 'plunky' flatwound feel and response. Not that you'd notice with the piezo sound that's bright in the extreme, with excess hi-fidelity and sizzle. Pulling down the treble on our AER combo and reducing mids gets us in the modernist acoustic-like ballpark but far from an old Martin flat-top sound.

Mind you, the magnetic sound is also out of step with the mainstream. Aside from some background noise issues this is a production prototype and these will obviously be sorted , the pickups are really very powerful and trying to get a clean sound we have to reduce our preamp gain to a place where cobwebs live.

Even then the fruity, barking midrange clouds the quite open and resonant strings aside unplugged voice of the guitar. With gain, as you'd expect, things come to life and with some experimentation - way beyond our normal amp settings - we obtain an okay general rock tone.

With heavier gain, the lack of high-end and detail sounds like someone has thrown a thick cloth over our ears. Also there's some odd response: the low E and B strings are noticeably quieter. Moog says that it's aware that the output is too strong and will tame it on the production models. But Moog should also consider the voicing as, on this evidence, it's far from a standard guitar in terms of magnetic tone - especially at boutique prices. Initially daunting, the considerable controls which make a Fender Jaguar seem like the most simplistic guitar ever conceived are rather cramped on the control 'deck', especially when you've screwed in your vibrato arm.

Again some prototype issues throw us some curveballs - not to mention general unfamiliarity - but gradually the fun begins…. In the basic Full Sustain mode with the Moog filters disengaged and the magnetic-only voices, the Vo Power control introduces the other-worldly sustain like a volume control.