How Do U Fooger?

thenightgoat · Post by **thenightgoat** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:43 am

I was just curious how everyone here uses their various foogers. I mean, I have searched through these different posts and learned a great deal about connecting different foogers, CV and other things a guitar player like myself knows very little about. I was curious what kind of setups people have for their Moog stuff. I currently run my Strat or Jaguar Baritone through a MF-102 & MF-105 to my Roland JC-120 amp and I am loving the results. I especially like how the foogers really create a lot of unusual sounds with my Jaguar Baritone (which is an unusual guitar/bass anyway). I also like the clarity of my JC-120 which gives me a crystal clear sound for my Moogers. What does eveyone else use with their Moogers?

lg · Post by lg » Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:00 am

we play a range of musics from melodic instrumental rock through dark ambient, industrial, experimental. in the i've used, variously, guitars, keyboards and drum machines through my fooger gear. guitars-tele, strat, SG, amps-voxAC15, fender twin. usually with guitar i run my signal through a meekbox compressor, then an oberheim digital echoplex. sometimes i'll have the MF-101 before the echoplex, and an MF-102 after, with various overdrive/fuzz/delays in between. last thing in the chain before it hits the amp might be a trem or chorus pedal (i like playing with multiple trems- combining the MF-102, a trem pedal, and the internal trem on the amp can be very active & rhythmically interesting). also love to use an ebow with the MF-101- can create some really complex envelopes (especially skronking ebow against strings). keyboards are rhodes 73, farfisa compact duo, acoustic piano. the percussion and trem/vibrato sounds on the farfisa work nicely shuttled through the ring mod. very complex, spacy. saving $$ for a machinedrum, but until then i've run various models of electribe and alesis boxes through the works.

Bryan T · Post by **Bryan T** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:55 pm

lg wrote:also love to use an ebow with the MF-101- can create some really complex envelopes

I'm sure I would have gotten around to this eventually, but I pulled out the ebow last night and messed around with my MF-101. Wow! What an amazing thing to be able to shape the sound of the filter with the ebow.

A cool signal path is: ebowed guitar -> square wave tremolo -> MF-101 -> delay ->amp. The ebow lets me control how open the filter is, the tremolo adds rhythm to the sound and motion to the filter setting, and the delay gives nice ambience. It sounds more like a monosynth than a guitar.

Bryan

tunedLow · Post by **tunedLow** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 5:00 am

That does soud cool. I use a frostwave fat controller to work the cutoff of my 101 when I play various synths through it.

EricK · Post by **EricK** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:17 pm

Try a Synth or even a theremin to the Ring Modulator with a slow vibrato. THen run that into an Electro Harmonix Bass Balls unit.

THe Bass Balls is a Dynamic sweeping Filter. So its similar to the 101 in the essence that its touch sensitive, so every time the Ring Mod vibrates, a vowel like overtone will sweep through the tone of the theremin.

It makes for a very interesting effect.

I think that the RIng Modulator could probably blow up the DYNAMIC aspect of the bass balls, making it burn out or something because i wonder if the bass balls could handle that fast of an attack/decay for a long time hehehehe.

Fast vibrato is totally wierd.
Eric