Moog Guitar Steals The Spotlight For The Summer NAMM Weekend
June 22, 2008
We've got the Moog Guitar right where we want it: at Summer NAMM 2008 and in our hands. We stopped by the invited Press Briefing at the Moog Booth and tried out the Moog Guitar for ourselves.
Paul Vo -- inventor of the Moog Guitar -- was on hand to talk about the development process, and about how the Moog Guitar builds on previous "sustainer" ideas and turns them into something infinitely more refined.
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Stolen Concept
This was originally invented by Michael Brook, guitarist and inventor from Canada. He created a guitar that used a feedback transducer to sustain the notes, and the Edge used this guitar with U2, most notably in the intro to "With or Without You". I'm not saying that what Moog music has done with the controls isn't quite useful, but it is being disregarded that the sustain - what most people are focusing on as the primary idea - was not original to Moog music, but to Michael Brook.
-pd
Not so fast
Look at the prior art. No less than a dozen 'guitar sustainers' in the patent database. Nobody stole anything. I want one. Bad.
good point.
Thats a good point sean. I suppose I was too quick to throw "stolen" out there. I guess im just confused as to why the original sustainer guitar never really got any press, or talk in this story or others about the Moog, because that was a huge step that led to this awesome guitar (trust me I wouldn't mind having one either). I see the Moog guitar as the infinite pickup guitar with an off switch. Its pretty cool. Sorry for the misrepresentation.
-pd
Moog
This is another Beautiful creation from the company that is at least Apples equal. I cannot find Paul Vos patent. Anyone steer me to the right place in the USPTO?
This is not a rip-off. It is a leap forward. It mutes also! The built in filter is great. Check out its patent.
mute
yes, the mute is amazing. this guitar is seriously unreal. They've managed to ignore all of the digital bs going on right now, and actually gone back to the hardware to produce the effects you are hearing. Simply amazing.
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