Very interesting from Sweetwater

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Sweetwater sent the picture with the announcement but I’m too dumb to imbed in post. It certainly seems legit:

10th Anniversary Minimoog Voyager

Moog will soon be announcing a VERY special and limited Custom 10th Anniversary Minimoog Voyager. Only 5 total of these will be built for the United States.

Price is $15,000.

FEATURES:
• Production limited to 30 total worldwide, with only 5 total in the US
• 24 Karat Gold-plated Chassis with Custom Silk Screen
• Clear Polycarbonate Knobs
• Custom Cut Rear Panel with Indigo (purple) Backlit Moog Logo (see photo below)
• Black Piano Lacquer Cabinet and XY Bezel
• Custom 10th Anniversary Cabinet Inlay - Designed and Executed by World-renowned Inlay Artist Larry Robinson
• Gold customizable Voyager Badge
• Gold Headphones Jack
• All Black Rocker Switches and Jacks
• Custom Fleece Dust Cover
• Handcrafted and Bound Manual
• Custom-built Museum-style Wood Shipping Crate
• When will they ship - December

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Sounds like a nice gem. I hope the sound is spiced in a similar way too - Moog has a name that is associated with just one thing: The sound

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Now I’m afraid at what they might do for the 100th Anniversary of the Theremin coming up in a few years.

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wow. :open_mouth: Please, someone smarter than me, tell this gentleman how to embed a photo. pleeeeeease.

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I can’t wait to see this…I’m sure it’s lovely but $15,000 for a TEN year anniversary? That’s pretty opulent, even for Moog, don’t you think?

Especially when I can think of a 110 space modular system that costs less than that…

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It’s probably the gold that will be worth at least $10K, not the Voyager. :smiling_imp:

I couldn’t find anything about that on their web site tho… :question:

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Sometimes it’s just painful how dumb I am…I forgot about flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/84298631@N04/8030538406/in/photostream

http://www.flickr.com/photos/84298631@N04/8030559226/in/photostream

Not really a “pretty” beast.

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:open_mouth: :confused:

I’ll echo the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film Predator when he sees that other beast up close: “You’re one ugly motherfocker !” :laughing: :laughing:

I really don’t dig the “western saloon” lines on the sides… Only my personal opinion, though.

Thanks for the pics, and heads-up about it still, Khatru2u !

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$15,000 for a cabinet and cache? That is a lot of Buchla, DotCom or topline recording gear that is going to sound different than the 10th Anniversary unit that will sound the same as a $3000 Select series. But there are people who will buy them. Seat for every bung and a bung for every seat.

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When I read Larry Robinson was doing the inlays, I pictured something like this…




It would look nice with this:

That Voyager is going to be a fingerprint magnet. The lines remind me of a billiard table.

And 15k will get you a SMALL Buchla lololol

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Actually, Eric, if you looked at his site, I sort of like the fish that he did as inlays on the fretless (must be bass) neck. But I question how it would sound; MOP vs. the wood of the neck?

One of the guitars has piano laid out across the back. Incredible work. Having seen the pic posted, I guess it’s just the Steam Punk outline and the #10 that is the Inlay?

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Wow, that thing is pretty ugly..

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This is some kind of joke, right?
I keep looking at the calender to see if it’s April 1st.

I don’t understand the thought process here.
It has to be a joke, why would they waste their time on something like this?

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I thought this EXACT SAME THING.

Im really beginning to question the validity of this picture.

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Well part of it is fake/a joke for sure. Outside of the fact that the purple illuminated logo doesn’t match the color scheme of the Steam Punk front/gold pic; the aspect ratio of the logo is too square considering that the panel is tilted back.

Oh, and then there is the fact that the top edge of the Voyager says “XL” and has the obvious absence of the jacks that a Voyager would have and a XL would not have.

But maybe they just haven’t taken a photo of this part of it yet : )

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Good eye, EMwhite! I vote for it being a joke. There’s no reason for a real prototype to have the XL top, seeing how the length wouldn’t be right. I’m thinking this is a hint. . .

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Hey, people, anyone can plainly see that the first picture is a computer rendering of a virtual prototype (and not even a good one at that) Geez! :unamused:

And the second pic is one of the back of a Voyager XL (probably Khatru2u’s) on which a bad photoshop job has been done to put a pseudo-lighted logo at an improper angle, as EMwhite had noticed.

As for it being a joke, most probably. Especially when there is no mention anywhere of this, either from Moog or Sweetwater…yet.

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So what you are saying is that it’s sort of like vaporware, or in the same category as this: http://www.tomoberheim.com/images/sov4-wide-Lg.jpg

: )

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Yep. I also think that the same poor rendering software has been used in both cases…

And while we’re at it, this also (although Tom Oberheim has already begun taking orders for it, so it might not be vaporware for long if he has enough pre-orders):

http://tomoberheim.com/images/2VC-01b.jpg

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Cross my heart and hope to die guys, I was really sent this stuff from Sweetwater. I’m not saying it’s not some kind of joke, but I swear to you on the soul of my XL, I had nothing to do with it.