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... just HAD to be done...!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHg2H7Nszig

Cheers,
Tom

That place looks like the worst place to store a Moog Modular: a damp and poorly ventilated cellar... There's even what looks like mildew on the ceiling in some shots...
This looks like the basement where Bob Moog built prototypes and assembled the first synthesizers in Trumansburg New York, back in the early sixties, that Gershon Kingsley described in the Moog Movie.

That being said, this is a great looking modular there... And your oscilloscope is actually working, as opposed to Keith Emerson's fake TV screen...

On the contrary Mr.666 ... the central heating boiler is down there, as is a dehumidifier - running 24/7...!

Dunno about that *mildew* but it is a nice, dry, warm place where I spend most of my time...

There is a 'window' with an air vent with fan and motor which is currently covered as it's very cold here currently. But up until recently it was open which allowed a constant draft through the whole room. It was nice in the summer. The draft passes right through the Moog... and I must say that throughout my 'restoration' project - over the past 5 months or so - I found that this draft made absolutely no difference to the tuning...! I had heard/read that those 901 oscillators would "drift with so much as a window being opened", well not these buggers...! I have a tuning fork there all the time. I could go down in the morning, power on... check tuning and it would be spot on almost immediately. I'd then check it again, regularly though out the day and it would not budge, until I powered down. The Minimoog however, that I have built into the system suffers much more 'drift' and warm-up/settling in time - even though it's the one I've used for over 20 years live, solid... and I've never had a complaint against or an issue with...!

So go figure... don't know why this is so... maybe when she come out of there for a gig she'll start acting up..?

Who knows, but for now it's just amazing. It lives and breathes...

thealien666 wrote:That place looks like the worst place to store a Moog Modular: a damp and poorly ventilated cellar... There's even what looks like mildew on the ceiling in some shots...
This looks like the basement where Bob Moog built prototypes and assembled the first synthesizers in Trumansburg New York, back in the early sixties, that Gershon Kingsley described in the Moog Movie.

That being said, this is a great looking modular there... And your oscilloscope is actually working, as opposed to Keith Emerson's fake TV screen...

I may have erroneously taken shadows for mildew behind those wires running on the ceiling at 2:11...

I had noticed that it sounds really well tuned. Seems like you did a great restoration job on it.

Actually there are two wooden beams in the ceiling (all painted in white wash) which have a special 'grease' on them just where they enter into the stonework. That's maybe what you saw...!?

Here's another vid for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_9MdnZ0pMM

thealien666 wrote:I may have erroneously taken shadows for mildew behind those wires running on the ceiling at 2:11...

I had noticed that it sounds really well tuned. Seems like you did a great restoration job on it.

Since you're a big fan of ELP, of which I am too, you might enjoy this: my humble cover of Keith Emerson's famous Moog lead in Lucky Man. I've used the original track that I fade during the lead so you can hear what I play.
Done on a famous analog synth, though not a Moog (my Minimoog D hasn't got the right kind of glide for this). Recorded today.


http://soundcloud.com/thealien666/lucky ... r-by-alain