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The Micromoog was Moog and friends’ solution to making synthesizers affordable to poor starving musicians. It has a fraction of the features (and 1\/3 of the oscillators) that the Minmoog has, but still has quite a few of its own. A multitude of rotary and rocker switches provides flexible routing options without making it difficult to operate. Even though it’s only got 1 oscillator, it has a variable doubling control that divides it down one or two octaves for extra Moogy phatness.<\/p>\n
The best part about this particular Micromoog is that it was found in a dumpster and still works great. Why somebody would throw something like this out I have no idea, but they obviously didn’t know (or care) what they had. When I first plugged it in I expected a puff of smoke or at the very least silence. It fired right up though. Right away I was able to play the filter with the keyboard. After some wiggling of dirty pots I was able to get the oscillator to make sound. Overall it needs some cleaning, the keyboard needs some new bushings and I think one of the rotary switches needs to be resoldered, but it works great. Even the ribbon controller, which tends to have problems on these Moog synthesizers, works just fine.<\/p>\n Cosmetically it’s a bit scratched, there’s an extra hole in the back and the sweet sweet simulated woodgrain finish is starting to peel, but it’s not too bad for a synth that was made in the late ’70s and stuffed into a dumpster.<\/p>\n The Micromoog was Moog and friends’ solution to making synthesizers affordable to poor starving musicians. It has a fraction of the features (and 1\/3 of the oscillators) that the Minmoog has, but still has quite a few of its own. A multitude of rotary and rocker switches provides flexible routing options without making it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-synthesizers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
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