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Moog MiniFoogers

I'll echo what I posted over in the PYPB thread:

The tone control takes a bit of getting used to, as there's no clear "neutral" setting, but there are definitely nice sounds to be found in there. The Drive has a great range of gain: from woolly, warm drive, to fuzzy high gain sounds which is what I'm using it for at the moment. However, the ladder filter doesn't do much for me, and I wasn't overly impressed with how it sounded with an expression pedal for sweeps -- it's not at all bad by any means, just a little too tame for my tastes (I'm using a SA Manta for that kind of stuff, so I wasn't really expecting to use the filter much in that respect anyways). I'd also really like a dry/wet mix knob on the drive, although it does preserve the low end quite well if you can get the tone dialled in right. It's just somewhat limiting on the tonal options, since you'll want to avoid certain tone settings if you value those bass frequencies. All in all I like it, but I'll need some more time with it to really make up my mind.

One thing that I love about all the Moog pedals is that you can throw pretty much any signal at them and they'll perform as they should. I use a bass with active electronics and a pretty hot output signal, which has caused some effects to distort in unpleasant/unintended ways previously. Not so with the Moog stuff. :)
 
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I've got the ring mod and will buy the delay when it finally is released. I love the sound of what I heard. The only thing that pisses me off is how quickly I destroyed the expression pedal that I bought with the ring mod. I thought Moog was of higher quality than that.

I also really wish they would release a filter in a mini size. Not sure why they haven't yet. it is the MF-101.
 
re: the drive

i didn't like the drive with bass. it was unique and responsive, but i'd not use it for a main tone. if you are looking for a sometimes-on effect, i think it could do some cool things, but i couldn't get an always/frequently on tone out of it.