Moog Music Forum

Placebo effect or not, my ears don't betray me when it comes to knowing what sounds good to me, or not. And a synth playing into a guitar amp and recorded by a camera mic, is not.

If you want to hear what a Moog Modular really sounds like, listen to Wendy Carlos Switched On Bach, or this demo of the Emerson Moog Modular re-issue demo by Moog Music, where the synth was properly recorded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7TJyPAyTiQ

Or this excellent video by Tom (AKA noddyspuncture), also properly recorded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJY8SZUC8f4

Yes sir, this is placebo. Nocebo has killed people too!

You can try to find out if modular synths are better than a VA, OR, you could try to spend your time trying to find out if Kind of Blue sounds better picked up from an Ortofon A95 on a Rega into a McIntosh and onto some Adam speakers, and compare it to a digital file playing that same Kind of Blue from a Pono into a Bose bluetooth speaker.

I don't have neither, but even though, I prefer a Moog System 55 instead.

As a side note, I'd love to see this thread on the modular forum...

The front panel has nothing whatsoever to do with what Euroracks sound like. They are all made out of mixed modules, many of which are more akin to circuit bending than normal synth modules. The mix mismatch coupled with the fact most Eurorack oscillators and filters are below par in many ways compared to more tradotional and established Modular designs.

Wrapping a heater coil around Moog vcos wasn't exactly design brilliance either. Dave Rossum smoked Moog in the day with his 1201 VCO submodule design used in the revered and rare EMU modular.

Eurorack modules are no where near this standard.

But nothing sounds as good as Moog 901s. The KE lucky man vcos. They will not stay in tune hence the 921s which lost a lot of that sound.

atomicsynth wrote:But nothing sounds as good as Moog 901s. The KE lucky man vcos. They will not stay in tune hence the 921s which lost a lot of that sound.

With a little bit of work at 'reigning in' my 901's are good enough tuning wise to use live on stage, in hot and humid venues...

Cheers,
Tom

It wasn't a modular component, but the VCOs in my OB-X (same VCO as the SEM) are very stable. There doesn't seem to be any warmup and I almost never hit autotune.

noddyspuncture wrote:
With a little bit of work at 'reigning in' my 901's are good enough tuning wise to use live on stage, in hot and humid venues...

Cheers,
Tom

Hi Tom! I'm sure your make it work. I know I would for that sound.

Best wishes!

Chuck