Hey, you know they say one of the keys to a long life is to take up new skills to learn to help keep your brain sharp.
Now see were on totally opposite ends of the spectrum. Im just about to get my College degree and start my career, so I bought a Voyager and a lot of stuff that I thought I won’t be able to afford when my wife and I decide to have children. My Moog system is my baby right now and I coddle it often lol. (that sounded wierd)
I tell you though, there would be no joy that I could think of than to be able to devote all of my time to nothing but art. To me thats what I have to look forward to. THough my plan is that when I retire, Ill have a facillity built where I can go in and produce whatever I want to. I just have so many paychecks spent and I haven’t even started my professional coursework yet! lol
Hi all, I`m newB here too. … And I placed order too so Moog Taurus III is one step closer now. I have used Crumar bass pedals and Korg G5 as my pseudo Taurus.
Another noob here. Been looking for some second hand Taurus pedals for a while now, never found any. Although this is quite expensive (i am aided by the fact that i live in the UK) i thought ‘what the hell’ - i love Genesis, Yes and Sunn O))), what else am i going to do?
i just hope they fix the Achilles’ Heel which was the exposed contacts as i recall. MIDI will make this amazing for fast sequenced lines. i also hope it still has internal PSU switchable between 240/120V - very handy.
Surely this will reach 1000 units ordered quickly? (i made sure i got in with the introductory offer).
Howdy folks - I ordered my pedals the day they were announced, but it took a while to get registered on the forums. I’m very excited - if they make it to production, this will be my 3rd set of Taurus pedals. I owned a set of used T-1s about 20 years ago, and a new set of T-2s a short while later. I’m currently using a set of Roland PK-5s MIDI’d to a Roland JP-8000, a good but not great sounding setup - I miss the sound of REAL analog. I hope Moog will do some advertising for the T3 - so far only visitors to the web site know about these, and I think there are a lot more potential customers out there, they just need to be made aware (Hey MOOG - help us to help you!). Here is my wish list for the Taurus 3 = wide pedal spacing like the original Taurus (my Roland PK-5 pedals are too close together, & I hit a lot of double & wrong notes with my size 12s), a pair of gooseneck light sockets on top for those dark stages, and a 1-octave pedalboard (let’s keep it portable & light). Moog’s spec of 4 CV inputs is clever marketing - I’m already thinking of adding a MP-201 Multi-Pedal to control those vital functions. My only question is, how are we supposed to take full advantage of an arpeggiator using only our two feet? Thanks, and lets all keep praying that our pedals eventually see the light of day!
Don’t forget to vote on what you’d like on my two poll threads! They are not official, of course, but it gives forum members an idea of what features are popular.
Wow, we’ve got heaps of views in this forum. Either we’re all losers or people are “lurking” due to the long forum registration process. The actual number of orders could be quite a lot higher, but people can’t post until they register.
Well i’m guessing there’ll be a few ‘names’ who won’t be registering or posting - i mean Sting will probably buy four just for himself - likewise Andy Summers. Maybe all those proggers like Yes and Genesis who are still touring will get a few as back-ups too.
I have an Ampeg B-15R & B-15E 100w Tube bass amp & Extension Cab 2-15 Stack that I baught about eight years after this reissue unit was introduced in 1997.
I got them in two seperate purchases, Extension Cabinet first, then Amp.
Both were Brand New, never sold. So they both had warranties and all.
Both were Serial Number “1”!
I found the B-15E, extension cab in Richland Washington, where it had been used only as a rental speaker cab. They sold it to me for $350.00, a very nice cash price. They didn’t even know it was #1 till they wrote it up.
This was after contacting Ampeg to find out if they had ever made one to go with the reissue B-15R amp. I knew a guy in the early eighties who had a 60’s B-15N 2-15 Stack, so I knew they were originally designed that way and I expected that they would have done the extension cab also.
Ampeg said “Yes, we made only 75 for distribution, they’re discontinued and we only do custom builds for Artist Endorsers”!
That should have been it!
But no I, mister nobody, run into one (and it’s #1) in a small store in nowhere Washington.
That’s one thing. I buy the extension cabinet for an Amp I don’t have!
Now I start trying to sell gear, hoping to find a used Amp that was going for $1399.00 when you did see them or $1999.00 new, which had started as a $2999.00 amp, I think.
I’ll try to wrap this up!
I was able to sell a 1974 Rickenbacker 4001 for $1050.00 and then received an email response from Guitar Center in Eugene Oregon that they had two new Floor Models back east that had some slight Tolex dammage that I could have for $1350.00
I say great, they took the Bass Amp I had for the ballance and charged me only $15.00 dollars In-Store Transfer Fee to ship my Amp from the East Coast to Oregon.
I pick up the amp and don’t eveen bother to look at the Serial Number until I got home. They didn’t seem to care to say anything to me either.
When I did look, I was S/N “1”! Not even a Joke!
What was odd was that the Head was #1 and the Cabinet for the Amp is #2. The store it came from must have received both 1 & 2 and someone wanted the cleanest Head and Cabinet combo so the store swapped pieces to make the deal happen.
I contacted Ampeg to ask if this was how they were shipped from the factory or not! They never really seemed to know. But they put me in contact with the man who designed the Original B-15’s and the Reissue, Jess Oliver.
Jess and I swapped emails, very nice guy! He told me he thought they gave him the first one! So he checks his serial numbers and his is #1 also. What was different was the last letter in his “Alpha” portion of the serial number. His is AJYD"J"00001 and mine is AJYD"Q"00001. Also his Head and Cabinet had the same S/N’s, so that cleared that up for me.
So, all that finally said and done, you really don’t know what you may run into!
but thought I’d let you know that I’ve put the new pedals one buyer closer to target 
Thanks for supporting the mighty Taurus!
