Hi All,
I’m trying to make a small enclosure for my MoogerFoogers and MBox 2 Pro and was looking at my options. It looks like I’m just going to make something myself as what I’m looking isn’t professionally manufactured.
I was wondering though, with the rackmount kit, how do you get to them if they’re inside the enclosure? Are you suppose to leave a huge amount of space above them to access the knobs? Or do they make rack enclosures that have slide out drawers?
Thanks!
As far as the rackmount kit goes… there is enough space above for right-angle 1/4" cables when racked, but if you want to get at them or switch them from time to time, you should either put it at the top of a small rack or leave at least 1 extra space open above it.
Another option is to use a patchbay to move the in/outs to the front of the rack.
If you make your own box/enclosure, you could have a cutaway at the top to allow full access to the jacks.
Give us a pic when you are done, this sounds like a pretty fun project 
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The best thing I can think of is screwing a piece of wood vertically to each side of the rack tray to make sides…Then the MBox or whatever else could go underneath. The only isssue is that I don’t have a third MoogerFooger and just forked out for the Mbox 2 Pro so that isn’t gonna happen soon. Although I’d kill for the 101 or Freqbox…or Phaser…
Thanks for the advice
I found that there was no option, you need to leave at least one extra space above the rackmount kit for cables. I could not fit right angle cables to all 8 or 9 jacks on the back of the Foogers, it just wouldn’t work. I had to leave an extra space above the rack, plus the rackmount kit , and the patchbay, making it at least 8 rack spaces needed to use the rackmount kit effectively.
I want to make a rack that houses my 6 foogers and also a permanently wired patchbay. I don’t want to have to use 8 rack spaces when I can get away with 6 or seven.
So if we cant use str8 jacks out of the rackmount kit and there is not enough room for right angle jacks, could we solder cables directly to the contacts inside of the pedal?
This way there are no metal Jacks sticking out and the cables which are permanaently wired from the MFs to the patchbay wont move around.
Do you think this could work? I mean for those of us who want some thing permanent?
There is enough room to have right angle jacks (semi-permanently). There is not enough room to plug them in or pull them out when you use the space above them in the rack. So you would have to unscrew and remove something to adjust your cables is all.
I might have to post a picture of this so I don’t get blasted again.
I have considered rewiring my moogerfoogers to have the jacks on a front-facing panel. The jacks inside the units are placed tightly together and share at least one wire I believe, but it looks possible for you to disassemble it and wire up a 2nd jack for each in a patchbay. I don’t know how the switched power jack would be affected by doing this, but it could be figured out.
I just opened my ring mod and found that I was wrong about the jacks on the inside. The top row of jacks was connected directly to the circuit board. If you knew which contacts were the important ones, you could still wire them, but it will be harder I think.
Here are some pics from my phone of the rack with right-angle cables and the inside of my ringmod. I hope this helps!
Yes there is room for some right angle plugs, just not enough room for all 7 or 8 jacks on the back of the foogers to use the right angle plugs. I have found that I can use right angle plugs for some of the jacks, but I also need straight plugs on some of them so that I can plug them all in.
That makes more sense. Maybe 2 different heights would work better, like on the picture with the phaser where one cable is taller than the other. It still is a lot of cables for a small amount of space.
I think Moog should have a second rack line that are sold this way
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26266638@N07/2464884953
That is great! Much more useful that way for me. What is the box behind them for though? Maybe it is empty or there is a second one of each for stereo.
Quite possibly the circuit boards had to be moved. The phaser’s board goes right to the edge of the casing (also the delay, or was it the Freqbox, I can’t remember). Other units like the filter, ringmod and MuRF have shorter boards.
From the 4th photo:
the extra space probably accommodates a transformer also.
That looks like a nice Modification. Do you think your warranty still holds up?
Just kidding.
What I did was I got a 20 space ATA mixer cabinet (the top is removable so I mounted the MF Rack on the top space). I haven’t gotten the VX rack shelf yet and while I reccomended to someone before about mounting the CP/VX above the MF, doing this without gaping holes is impossible.
Ill include pictures when I get the cabinet to a point where everything I have is mounted.
My only complaint about this setup is that We are forced to remove the back metal panels and the cheek plate of the middle Fooger.
WHen you guys mounted yours, did you leave the rubber feet on the screws?
Did you have to purchase a Furman Power module or a similar power module, and if you did, did it create line noise if you had a lot of them plugged into the same power module?
Eric
Erick, why did you removed the back panels?
It isn’t necessary..
I still have the rubber feet on the screws by the way. 
Thats what the directions said to do. When I get home Ill surely replace them!
Im taking care of my grandmother right now so Im nowhere near my studio and don’t know when ill get back.
Eric
I thought that the directions were vague on the back panels and rubber feet, although I hated to take the wooden sides off of the middle unit!
I left the bottoms and feet on mine, as I was afraid that I would lose them.