are the moogerfooger bodies large enough to be used as spring reverb tanks? i know the danelectro spring king is about mf size, just side ways. that would be awesome then they could incorperate a vca into to get all sorts of crazy reverb swells and reverse reverb sounding effects. if possible i would love to have 100% reverb, no dry signal at all or with a mix out dry out and wet out. of corse if moog put out a reverb tank im sure it would have some crazy stuff we couldnt even dream up.
I think one in maybe a full 3U rack (like 2 cp-251s side by side) could work out. I was thinking real hard about getting a Vermona Retroverb for quite a while, if moog made one of those w/ as many useful features, and at as a good a price, I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
Question is, what could they do to edge out the Vermona?
They’d need to have at least:
12db filter
AD type envelope w/ looping capability and rate
inputs for CV
maybe a full fledged lfo? hard to say. the vermona is really deep, i’m not sure they could even fit something akin to the accutronics type 9 in a tighter space like that and still keep the features at or above the competition.
I prefer my Hammond tank and AO-44 amp. Then process afterwards. I’ve also got a TC reverb I use since I sold the plate reverb. (What eveyone needs in their living room!) It takes room for a good deep sounding tank, a Fooger isn’t big enough. IMO.
There are enough spring reverb tanks out there. Unless Moog can make one with their own special Moogy spin, I would rather see them come up with something more unusual and innovative.
yea i think the double cp size would be better. and i did forget about the vermona, that pretty much has everything you can do for reverb. im sure moog could think of something new though
I voted no for multiple reasons:
Nicer spring reverbs have large and multiple reverb tanks and a tube pre (all this would not fit in a moogerfooger). I can’t think of too many things you could/would want CV control over on a spring reverb. There are a lot of nice spring reverbs availabe so the market probably isn’t really there for anyne outside of moog fetishists. Of course I could be wrong.
I voted no, for the simple fact that there are so many options for spring reverb units, some of which are affordable. Synths.com has a spring reverb module. The Reverbamates are nice compact units with a lot of funtionality. I’m not sure that a Moogerfooger would be the right thing for a spring reverb unit.
Spring reverb was/is popular because it is so cheap and easy to do. I had Vibrasonic sound in an old car I bought in the 70’s. (Spring reverb) Guitar amps, organs and home stereos had it. We are used to hearing it.
I had a plate reverb for a number of years. Expensive, HEAVY and huge. Did it sound better? YES. Was it practical outside of a studio? NO. The weirdest reverb I ever saw was this thing that had a speaker at one end of several differant diameter corrugated tubes and a mic at the other end. Don’t know what it was actually called. We called it the ‘sewer pipe’ reverb.
while there are much more flexible reverb units out there, I really think a moog spring reverb unit would be something to be behold, particularly considering the signal path and modulation options out there. It’s really the only analog solution out there Moog could do, and I personally really enjoy the sound of spring verb, but it really depends on what the response would be like.
I for one would love one, but definitely not until they addr some of the more pressing moogerfooger matters out there, we still don’t have a vca/env/cv-midi combo unit, sequencer, or multimode filter. A chorus/flanger would be really really nice too. Until we see these methinks spring reverb is going to sit on the shelf for quite some time.
That sewer pipe reverb got me thinking. Maybe spring reverb isn’t what moog should make. Maybe they could design a completely new form of verb.
I enjoy all types of reverb. I suguested spring because its the most portable and affordable, but moog seems to go beyond go beyond reinventing the wheel most of the time. I mean they are already working on time travel lol (mf106tc)
