Black sides with 3.1 upgrade?

[humboldt]

I'm considering sending in my Stage II Phatty for the 3.1 upgrade and CV mod. Can I choose to have black sides installed along with this? I emailed Moog support, but haven't heard back yet.

[ricknboogie]

Yes, I believe you can.

[humboldt]

I realy like the way the black sides look so I hope so. I guess I just need to get in touch with moog before I send it in...

[slabwax]

I had mine done back in September. At that time I was told that in order to get the Black end caps I had to go for the sonic tune up. So I went for that and also internal input cv trimpot. Cost me a bit of change but it's only money.




Dean

[dan thacker]

Forgive my ignorance,but what does the internal trim pot do? Some sort of an adjustment device?

[Sir Nose]

It is used to scale the pitch CV in to the standard 1V/Oct. The phatties run at .97. Not a big deal for 3 octaves or so. At 5 octaves many people notice the tuning does not track perfectly.

[dan thacker]

My response is kind of late,but thank you Sir Nose.Is the .97 voltage an oversight,or the result of cutting costs,maybe?

[Sir Nose]

It is by design. Cost cutting: they did not include the internal trimpot on the stages and slim (both the cost of not including the component and having a tech scale it before it goes out the door was saved). The tributes have a couple more internal trims including on on the CV pitch in. The cost cutting is why I could afford my LP in the 1st place.

[dan thacker]

I'm in the same boat, as far as cost is concerned,and it sure doesn't have any bearing on the noise I make.Just curious.
Thanks again!