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Fantastic work! You are absolutely thorough, not leaving any detail untouched. The synth looks better, and definitely performs better than when it left the factory in the 80's.

Bad ASS

Hey Synthpro! Love your videos. I own a MiniMoog Model D Serial #. 4461. I bought it used in Mint condition in the late 70's for $400.00! I gigged with it for about 15 years I have been working on restoring the keyboard but am stuck on how to reinstall the little springs under the keys. Any advice would be appreciated. None of the videos I have watched show that part of re-asdembly.

question I have an OG 2736 SN with OSC 2 boards I believe the power supply is an early version the current caps in it are only 2- 1000uf 50V's is that correct sizing for this one? I see later versions had 3 caps in there, but want to keep the way it originally was done thanks!

Very good explanations.

this didnt have that buffer board should you install that if doesnt have it?

Well I am a bit late in seeing this vid, but it was definitely interesting! I love my old minimoog, it was found on the local tip quite a while back and had suffered somewhat from the rain so needed a bit of tlc! For some reason lately I have been thinking it was a '76, but refering to the vid, mine has sharp edged badges, thin end cheeks to the case ( which is a lovely grained dark wood ) rev 2 osc board and no octave buffer board, so earlier! I've used it happily for years but it was a bugger for going out of tune, I bit the bullet and fitted the temperature compensation mods, multiturn trimmers, and while I was at it rebushed the keyboard - now it is rock solid for tuning - as you say about the rev3 board, possibly too good, a little bit of character was lost, but a small price to pay for useability! It suffers a bit from the board connectors being a bit shoddy and some times needs a bit of a knock to sort them out, but at the moment it's working fine apart from the overload light, -bulb is fine - probably a poor connection somewhere - Bah! -well you can't have everything, it doesnt affect the operation so I've not delved into it! I'll maybe sort this out at some point, and possibly fit a buffer board, but it does seem ok without.🙂

I love the sounds on that synth. Great video!

Excellent Video, Informative and inspiring. I would absolutely be interested in two Voyager interfaces and Three Moog interfaces if and when you decide to make them, really great ideas !. I sent an email via your website too. I enjoy all the videos Thanks !

I have a 2016 edition and I don't have the footage problem, nor pot problem either. I haven't tested the resonance for the harmonics, but it appears to me that the model you had here was not so good.

What strobe tuner app is that?

I'm only halfway through the video but I checked out my octave switches on my 2016 version and you're right, noisy little things. Considering the cost of these synths, the component choices and quality control is very disappointing.

This is really a great instrument. I didn't even know that the Moog Muse inherited various things from the Polymoog. It's all in the lineage I guess. The Moog One is quite something, too. It seems to combine the Memorymoog with the flexibility of Moog IIIC/Model 55. I mean, it takes considerable time to achieve good sounds on the Moog One. Which is not a bad thing. It takes years to achieve good sound on acoustic instruments.

This synthesizer is absolutely beautiful inside out. Modern synthesizer "reissues" are shockingly hollow inside, namely the Sequential Prophet-5/10, Oberheim OB-X8, and Behringer UB-Xa. Even the Moog Matriarch is hollow inside. On the other hand, the Moog One isn't. I wonder what the story is with the Moog Muse.

When I see the Polymoog, the first thing that comes to my mind Tong Poo played by Ryuichi Sakamoto in YMO. And yes, a pipe organ or a tone wheel organ is an additive synthesizer, except that one of the main synthesizer functions is the envelope generator, in where organs have very limited input, aside from very subtle envelope feature called percussion.

To me personally, the one problem that the Model D reissues in 2016 and 2022 have is the shape of the keys. The new Fatar keybed keys do not have the same shape as the original Minimoog. The original Minimoog keys are more similar in shape to pipe organ keys than to whatever Fatar seems to have on offer these days.

very nice indeed. thank you! :)

Great restoration, and an amazing vintage synth, Jareth. Hope your Christmas was nice, and wishing you a safe and prosperous New Year, my friend.!!!

Really appreciate to see the inside. More stability less transistors, and sound less interesting .

Humanoids how are you?

Are you chanching the motor to steppermotor with speed control? Like @thismuseumisnotobsolete does to things among..

Now, that's quite some lineup of the Minimoogs. I didn't even know that the original Model D's front panel was all metal with etched markings. That's the same style as a Swiss made typewriter or a set of watchmaking tools. I mean, the current leather-like textured vinyl overlay on the Model D reissues from 2016 and 2022 are not bad at all. All the Minimoogs have charm and purpose. I am wondering if they still use discrete electronic components or integrated circuits in the Model D reissues. I am also interested in knowing how Moog implemented the oscillators in the Minimoogs and the modular systems. Are the oscillators charging and discharging capacitors? Or are they more complicated electronic circuits?

If the Behringer system 55 doesn’t have portamento how did you get some portamento sound in the last example you played on the Behringer???

Very cool.....

Great work. I have a 2016 and have never melded with it because it did not sound like what I heard on vintage Minimoogs. In your intro I heard the same differences between the two you demonstrated but after your work they sound very similar. I was wondering if the type and voltage rating of coupling caps to block DC offset could account for the more open sound of the vintage as I have experienced that in audio circuits. I know that the level of the DC offset does affect the sound of an electrolytic cap. You mention that the 2016 had less than half the DC offset of the vintage and maybe this higher DC offest on the vintage allows the electrolytic to behave more ideally as a coupling cap. I have also noticed that voltage ratings that are just above the actual voltage the cap will encounter sounds better than one that is say 4x over rated. Also was the 2016 assembled with leaded solder?

I had one of these and I loved it. Best pitch bend I’ve ever experienced! Unfortunately it got stolen.

sure does centre tap and italian and note note note center tap note note italian it into a very deep reverb and panned all over the spectrum

The 3350 filters are state variable filters, so that's a complete different design. Each is a two-pole filter capable of lp, hp, bp, br and ap, depending on how they are wired.

The A and D envelope pots seem to be logarithmic according to the service manual, maybe that can explain the strange envelope behaviour?

awesomeness

God dammit… these videos for the little phatty and sub phatty are all older than shit. Chances are this account holder no longer uses this account. So, so much for having questions

June 22 83 I believe it's the date. In Italy it I's DD MM YY

Oh Boy! This is great! Never heard one before and I had always wondered how they sounded! Fantastic work and demonstration! Thanks!

Always great learning the past through an amazing tech

Sounds decent. It's really a shame about the ADSRs. Bad design but, not hopeless. It's fine for the museum however, If I owned it I would change some component values to dial it in proper. The Decay is the most unacceptable. Cheers!

Fascinating bit of kit. You watching this Cherry Audio?

thank you for excellent demo of this, i really want one now !

Really interesting video. Cool synth, thanks for going through it so thoroughly. I really love these types of video where we get to see everything. Good stuff.

Thans for making these videos. I greatly appreciate your point of view and your music.

thank you

Imagine making a video like this and 9 years later people are still discovering it and finding it very helpful :D Thanks for sharing, hope to get similar results with my Behringer clone!

Great video! I’ve been pricing one together from scratch over the past few years - I should have enough modules to make it work pretty soon (it’s been a busy few years!). I’ll be referring back to this.

It's crazy that you can save 34000$ and buy the modular synth from Behringer that can do Moog just flawlesly. I don't like the Moog prices at all, of course it's a part of the history, one of the first produced synths but 35k, c'mon.

Thank you for sharing. Great idea. Gamechanger Audio later used this idea for their Motorsynth product.

can you explain how you got off the original membrain?

Fun fact - at the end of Pink Floyd's Welcome to the Machine, this is the sound you're hearing (played through a filter and with tape effects). @6:45

Please, what actual Deoxit product you use for oxidized bus bars and wires? Is it also OK for Minimoog bars and springs? Cheers! S

No sample & Hold????

the moog has more bite and low end weight for sure, it does sound better but you get about 90% of the sound on the behr for a fraction of the money.