Recently sold my Sub 37 in favor of an Voyager RME but I miss the multidrive circuit so much. It really beefed up everything without destroying the sound. What would you recommend for me taking this into consideration?
MF Drive pedal is really nice…but, the MF-102 Ring mod will give you a lot of mileage with CV and it’s overdrive is awesome.
The obvious, keep the RME and get another Sub37.
Stephen
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I put an MF Boost and a FreqBox in the Mixer Out/Filter In insert point and it rocks the house!
I had a ring, a delay and a cluster flux before and the drive they gave sounded the same so I guess it doesn´t matter which Moogerfooger you use. They sounded great but are a bit too pricey these days. I guess a ring would be the best pedal for expanding the sound possibilities.
You might be correct. But anyway, I find the drive on the minifoogers different from the one on the moogerfoogers and using one of each seems to be more versatile. IMHO, that is…
Minifooger Delay has a very nice sounding overdrive, but pushing it past 10:00 will create a bleed of the delay signal, even at 0% mix (something to consider). I run the Sub37 and the Slim Phatty through their own MF Delay units, and have them ON almost 100% of the time, and with Drive set around 12:00. Yeah, Baby!
Minifooger Drive has a very wide range of OD tones inside the dials, almost any guitar tone you’d ever want. Sweeping the filter with an EP pedal is the sweep spot for me. But, if you plan to use it with a synth, there is a significant high-end roll off to this pedal. Not a consideration for guitar use, but you will hear it on a synth. Sometimes, I’ll use one with an Arturia MicroBrute and make use of its CV controls to modulate the MF Drive filter.
I just got the MF Boost yesterday to insert into my XL, and it is a sweet little boost. The two different methods for boosting the signal produce an exquisitely clean sound, very pure in tone. You can then shape the tone via the included 6db filter (tone knob).
I’d like to try the MF Drive next, but think that you’d get great mileage by starting with a little (or a lot) of Boost in the signal chain.
After many experimentations, I had the best results with a BBE Sonic Stomp, but that was before the minifoogers were released.
I always end up boosting the highs on Moog synths so the MF Boost might be nice. It sounded clean without destroying the sound as heard in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFrsUsWWHng
The MF Drive broke the sound up more but sounded equally cool though! 
Yeah, the MF Drive seems like it would be a great way to get an effect similar to the Sub 37’s Multidrive.
The MF Drive in the video smashed the sound compared to multidrive on the Sub Phatty & Sub 37, but that could have something to do with gain staging!
Yes dear, Moog’s gain circuit is an underdog, it rocks the house like no other!
I tried the mf-drive with my voyager and minitaur and it works but I don’t think it
Sounds like multi drive at all really. It takes away too much top end.
What I have been doing is using an old Boss Km series mixer in the loop, or after the voyager. The multi drive is pre and post filter though, right?
I’m impressed with the Mantic Vitriol with Moog synths.
Have you tried the old mini Moog trick of running the headphone out to the audio in? Always works nice with my voyager. I believe it was that old school trick that inspired the multi drive circuit on the subs. There is a really cool video on Youtube demoing this technique. All for the cost of a patch cable!
The video shows plugging a standard 1/4" jack into the Headphone output. This is a bad idea, because it shorts one of the headphone channels to ground, and will probably kill the HP output at some point. A better and safer way to do this is to use an insert cable (TRS-type) to split the HP Output into two individual channels, and then plug one of those channels back into the Voyager to create a feedback loop (leaving the other channel unplugged, or available as a second feedback source to feed another Voyager input).
- Greg
Alternately, just plug the TRS cable halfway into the Voyager headphone out. That way you’ll get the ground and one of the channels with no damage.
Stephen
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Was scratching my head trying to figure how that would work, until I realized that you probably meant to say “TS”, not “TRS”.
A TS cable plugged in halfway should be okay, as the Tip of the plug will connect to the Ring contact of the socket, and the plug ground (Sleeve) will mate with the socket ground contact. This way you’re tapping off of one side of the headphone output without shorting out the other.
That said, I’m sticking with an insert cable for that job.
Greg
I understand the stereo and insert, -both TRS cables- are different. Can you use either here?