Foogers with Batteries = ?

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So I’d like to put together a small portable system. It must be battery powered. I love the sound of my Foogers. So what would you all use?

Delays, no problem
Phase shifters, easy
Ring modulators, check
Battery powered sound source can get those.
Amps are a dime a dozen.

So what would you substitute for a Murf, low pass filter and Freq. box?

Thanks
Dean

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You can built yourself easily a battery box with the needed cable to plug the battery box where the wall wart cable normally goes. So no problem. But I don’t know about the ampers a foogers needs.

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Here you go:

http://www.moogmusic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6178

So Slabwax, are you asking whether it’s possible to battery-power 'foogers or for alternatives you would use to substitute them?

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I’m looking for smaller and also battery powered. Think camping/ busking/ more portable type gear. I know that a small Boss/ MXR etc delay is not going to sound anywhere as warm as my 104 nor is it going to have all the capabilities with no cv ins and outs. But different needs requires different gear.

Thanks
Dean

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Could you use multi-effects for portable gigs? I know the smaller Zoom ones run off batteries.

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I am TOTALLY with you on battery powered pedal and stuff. I should have done this long ago. All that was required are a couple of 9v plugs from old adapters and a pair (of pair) of Sermos connectors. I picked the batteries from what I had that would fit in place (and that I had in stock). I would not recommend for people to power their foogers with lipos, just as I did. These batteries must be handled with very specific care. Use AA’s or AAA’s instead, rechargeable or not. I would have used them myself (and I probably will) but you need to make a special battery holder, that’s a chore, so I went for easy does it :wink:

So here’s my battery operated pedal gear. The little ME-20B is an essential sound beautifier for my basses. I just go a new Strat with noiseless pickups and the ME-20B is absolutely great sounding with it. It was always good with guitars, but it seems to shine with this Strat, same with the Midi-Murf. I was all humbuckers before but this guitar sounds real good. (Not shown, a couple of regular exp’s for the foogers).


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It might get a bit difficult to place batteries inside the Moogerfogger 12-Stage Phaser and the Analog Delay:

MF-103 12-Stage Phaser


MF-104Z Analog Delay

I just assembled three Moogerfoogers in my FX rack

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Portamental

Thats a great mod! Thanks for the photos and description.

As far as using a multifx pedal I thought it might be more fun and possibly sound better by using individual pedals.

So what would you use instead of a murff and a freq. box?

Dean

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Both the MuRF and Freq are pretty unique.

You might get close to the 105 with the Boss SL-20.





No idea about the 107 though.

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latigid on,

Thanks for the heads up on the Boss splicer, looks like a cool piece. It is a bit large for this application. I might have to rethink my one for one idea. So
far it stands as

Boss GE eq
Boss DD3 & or Mxr carbon copy
Boss RV5
MXR phase 90 ( the old school custom one)
Copilot fx Android
Boss RC-2
Maybe a Korg MiniKP or if I can find another small pedal that tweaks the signal in a crazy sort of way. The whole idea is to find them used and cheap. And if that means beat up so be it.

Dean