I have a Moog LP Stage 2 that I have owned for about a year and a half. I turned it on the other day to find that it is no longer working. Basically, it starts up as normal, then when you try to move encoders nothing happens and there is no sound, sometimes the encoder LED’s skip all over the place as well. I have made a video below:
Anyone have any ideas? I have contacted Moog support already with a basic description and I was told to send it back, the problem is that I live in Australia, so shipping back, with parts and labor would be very expensive. I know these things do happen, though I can’t help feeling a little frustrated - I have other synths older than me that have never skipped a beat.
Could the debugger perhaps solve this issue? I’m happy to try anything - Any suggestions would be most welcome!
This looks like the common ‘dancing dials’ grounding issue. You could investigate and ensure that you are using a 3-prong power cable into a well-grounded power outlet. See if the issue remains when running from another outlet (try another in your home first and then perhaps elsewhere).
I hope this helps - let us know how your testing works out..
Thanks for reply David, though I don’t believe this is a grounding issue, I used to get grounding issues at my previous house which would make the LED’s go all over the place, though the unit would still sound. I have tried on different power outlets, different power cable etc just to be sure… The Moog pretty much sat in the same spot, connected to the same outlet for the last year when this happened all of a sudden…
I had the “dancing dials” problem when I first received my Little Phatty. Literally, the first time I turned it on this happened. I moved it to a different room just to see what would happen, and haven’t had a single dancing dial since. Try moving your synth to a differnet room, just to test and see if this works for you. At least then you can start trying to figure out what’s up.
- How was the issue fixed in the end?