After all this talk of upgrading the little 8-SOIC Atmel Serial EEPROM in the LPTE i finally grew the balls to crack open my Tribute Edition (I tend to have trouble when I take things apart to not be able to put them back together correctly…or lose a screw).
Whoa, awesome job Moog! beautiful design…very inspirational…
I even went far enough to check out the front panel with the nice surface mount leds…awesome! I was also very impressed that the entire design was surface mount because I have this irrational fear that surface mount capacitors sound far inferior to the big through-hole poly caps.
I documented the whole thing with my digital camera so I wouldn’t have to do it again unless it was to upgrade anything. But a strange feature that really made me happy is what I will call the “Anti-Mouse Wall” which would have been really handy to have in an Opus-3 i bought off ebay a few years ago.
It is simply a little (fire?) wall between the keyboard assembly and the rear area containing the main PCB.
I dunno if it was originally designed by Moog to protect the PCB from that nasty Mouse pee & poo that tend to happen when silly adults store their moogs in attics and basements for extended periods of time…but yeah, I think the new design works well to protect our instruments for the next generation of boys and girls who discover the abandoned Moog Little Phatty!
cheers!
