I've been offered a Moog Prodigy

[thealien666]

I'm certainly not an expert in the english language, but "the first 11,000", doesn't that usually implies that there were others ?

[Box]

Yes, but it could've been a typo on their part. Or at that time it was their intention to make more than 11,000 and they never did. Only way to know would be to find one with a serial above 11,000.

[Kevin Lightner]

Manuals are generally published early on and would never indicate such a number.
Since this is an addendum, I'm guessing they were up to around 11,000 at the time, but expected to make more.
Hence the 11,000 figure. It was how many they'd made to date.

Some of the published mods indicate much earlier serials.
It would appear they made major changes for units up to s/n 2000, then more at just past 4000, then still more after about 8000.

[CZ Rider]

The first serial, not counting prototypes started at 1001, per the service manual. Mine is difficult to read but looks like 12137 or 12139? So that would make it the 11,137th made, right around the 11,000 mark. They usually round those figures off.

Anyone have a newer one than this?
This Prodigy is very reliable,never had a problem with it. It relpaced a Little Phatty I purchased for live gigs. The Phatty at two different venues, did the dancing parameter thing due to grounding issues. They just don't make them like they used to.

[EricK]

According to SynthMuseum.com they only produced 11,000 of the Prodigy. Tilting my monitory way back, it looks like that last digit is a 9 though, and then theres an anomaly that looks like a smaller 37 towards the end of the sticker. I don't know if they marked anything else on the stickers or if my brain is trying to form a pattern where none exists.

[Portamental]

Strange... my Prodigy's serial numbers, both 9xxx, are printed with a rubber stamp or something similar, not hand written. Maybe the rubber stamp had only 4 digits.

[CZ Rider]

Most of the Prodigy serials used that stamp, even the 5 digit ones.

Although every Norlin era Moog I have has a hand written serial. Strange that those Prodigy serials use some kind of stamp. Perhaps they lost the stamp by the 12,XXX series? Always thought the hand written marker serials were kind of cheap. Can't even read the ones on my Rogue or Taurus II. But all my R.A.Moog modules have written serials too.

[muksys]

Thanks Muksys,

Apparently the very early Prodigys DID have some tuning problems despite their heated oscillators.
Embarrassingly, I already had the info regarding these mods and serial numbers on my site.

http://www.synthfool.com/docs/Moog/prodigymods.pdf

Ya know, I think that's where the docs were found to fix mine up!

Rubber stamp here. #1246

[MC]

As simple simon as the Prodigy is, it has one of the meanest sounding hard syncs in the business!

[muksys]

As simple simon as the Prodigy is, it has one of the meanest sounding hard syncs in the business!

Absolutely!

Don't get me wrong, I love my Prodigy and wouldn't sell it for anything! But, the prices they fetch these days are rediculous.

[armillary]

I'm sure the Prodigy is a great piece of gear. But I would trade the second oscillator of the Prodigy for the S&H and input/output signal and CV versatility of an equally well maintained Micromoog, especially if we're in the $1000. price range.