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Cool.

What serial number did you get?

I called Big City Music today, and I guess Moog is shipping them THIS WEEK!!!


Soon.

I got mine too. Wow. I love it!!!! I got SN:0009.

Oh yea, my serial no. is #0051 and I guess I'll have to play that number this week Who knows, stranger things have happened...like the inspiration and invention of the freq box. cheers

Who will be the winner of the "I posted a ton of FreqBox examples first" contest?

I hope my ser# is 666 but 999 would do just as well.

zbq wrote:Who will be the winner of the "I posted a ton of FreqBox examples first" contest?

Actually, five short audio clips were posted on MoogSpace back on May 10:

https://www.moogmusic.com/members/?sect ... 0id%20DESC

- MF

yes, but one horse doesnt make a race.

The only problem for me is that the sound samples posted on Moog Space were with a synthesizer (Voyager or Korg) that were fed into the 107. It is hard for me to tell if any of the sounds were the 107 on its own or if the sound is a mix of the synth and 107 output. I would like to hear the 107 with electric guitar or bass, to see how the hard sync function works. It would be great if anyone would post a sound sample with the 107 into the 101 or the 107 into the Murf, as I play the bass guitar and I own both the 101 and the Bass Murf pedals. I am trying to decide on my next pedal purchase, between the 107 and the 102, please help me out if you can guys!

The S&H sample is really nice on there. So is the MS20 one.

too bad u have to pay to hear them

pelican wrote:too bad u have to pay to hear them

Exactly. Sort of defeats the object of trying to advertise their new product, doesn't it?

So far the only sample I've heard of the Freqbox is the one they put on the main site, which basically sounded like a Walrus with wind, which didn't make me want to rush out and buy one. So they did that and then expected people to pay to hear more.

I'll be interested to hear what people on this site do with the box. That's going to be the real demonstration.

Henfield wrote:The only problem for me is that the sound samples posted on Moog Space were with a synthesizer (Voyager or Korg) that were fed into the 107. It is hard for me to tell if any of the sounds were the 107 on its own or if the sound is a mix of the synth and 107 output. I would like to hear the 107 with electric guitar or bass, to see how the hard sync function works. It would be great if anyone would post a sound sample with the 107 into the 101 or the 107 into the Murf, as I play the bass guitar and I own both the 101 and the Bass Murf pedals. I am trying to decide on my next pedal purchase, between the 107 and the 102, please help me out if you can guys!

Point taken about the use of synths with the FreqBox. But since Cyril's NAMM demo was done with a guitar, Brian and I thought this was an opportunity to try it with a few synths and post some of the results for others to hear.

The synth sounds used were all relatively static. All of the modulations you hear in the clips are the result of tweaking the knobs on the 107. The sync function in the FreqBox can create sounds very similar to the Voyager's oscillator sync (similar to the synth sound in 'Let's Go' by the Cars), but the envelope follower and FM circuits can further transform the sound into hundreds of other timbres (fuzz, ring mod, intermodulation distortion, etc.). The audio clips only hint at what a synthesist can do with the FB.

Now that the FB is shipping, I'd expect others will soon post the guitar and bass samples you're looking for.

FreqBox or Ring Mod? Tough call if you're only going to buy one. IMO, the FB might be a better choice for a guitarist or bassist as it allows you to stay more in the sonic realm of a guitar effect (albeit a pretty extreme guitar effect). The Ring Mod seems better suited to synths in general (again, IMO), but both devices have their place in any musician's toolbox. It all depends on the sound you're going after.

- G

GregAE wrote:
Point taken about the use of synths with the FreqBox. But since Cyril's NAMM demo was done with a guitar, Brian and I thought this was an opportunity to try it with a few synths and post some of the results for others to hear.



Now that the FB is shipping, I'd expect others will soon post the guitar and bass samples you're looking for.

FreqBox or Ring Mod? Tough call if you're only going to buy one. IMO, the FB might be a better choice for a guitarist or bassist as it allows you to stay more in the sonic realm of a guitar effect (albeit a pretty extreme guitar effect). The Ring Mod seems better suited to synths in general (again, IMO), but both devices have their place in any musician's toolbox. It all depends on the sound you're going after.

- G

I was not very impressed with the NAMM demo with Guitar, and I do hope that others will post some samples soon. I haven't heard anything convincing that would make me want to purchase the 107 yet at this point, and I was hoping that one of the first few people that received one could post some samples that would show me why it is as great as everybody says that it is. It isn't that I probably won't buy just one or the other of the 102 and the 107, as I am now addicted to the Moogerfooger line of pedals, but which one I will buy next!

Henfield wrote: I was not very impressed with the NAMM demo with Guitar, and I do hope that others will post some samples soon. I haven't heard anything convincing that would make me want to purchase the 107 yet at this point, and I was hoping that one of the first few people that received one could post some samples that would show me why it is as great as everybody says that it is. It isn't that I probably won't buy just one or the other of the 102 and the 107, as I am now addicted to the Moogerfooger line of pedals, but which one I will buy next!

One musician's "great" is another's *yawn*.

Demos are all well and good, but obviously nothing replaces checking out the gear for yourself using your own instrument. The FB is one of those pedals that you really need to take the time to explore to see what it can do for you. After my own two short hours with it, I still came away thinking "but what if I used it for this or that?". There's a lot to discover with this one. Good luck!

BTW - If you get the FB, I'd like to hear what you can make of it with your bass!

- G