Moog Lap Steel

GovernorSilver · Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:25 am Post subject: Moog Lap Steel

I don't play lap steel at all, but this appeals to me more than the Moog Guitar for some reason:

http://www.gearwire.com/moog-lap-steel-demo-winter-namm-2011.html

v-un-v · Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 9:50 am Post subject:

Ooooh! NICE! Cool

BobTheDog · Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 10:56 am Post subject:

Having bought a Moog E1 I would not go near any Moog guitar based equipment again!

Those Moog pickups are crap to be honest, very noisy, very hissy, very distorted, bad shielding for EM and a pretty nasty general tone.

GovernorSilver · Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 1:05 pm Post subject:

BobTheDog · Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2011 2:20 pm Post subject:

The midi board went wrong causing terrible hum on the piezo so it got sent off for mending (9 weeks it took), I asked them to check the noisy pickups and they said they were normal.

I might sell it actually, I'm not using it and when I do only through the VG99 for a virtual guitar and then you lose the filtering but it does sound 100 times better!

There has been a fair few complaints about the pickups on the moog forum, it basically means you cannot really use it as a general guitar, if the vo power is on then it's great as the noise is hidden, as a normal guitar it stinks.

Inventor · Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:01 am Post subject:

I'd like to clarify that this guitar technology is different from the one that I've been discussing from time to time. I think it was in chat someone mentioned it as competition. They are different for whatever that is worth.

Les