Comments on: Moog electric guitar

By: JTode

JTode — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Seems to me this is largely the same as the Fernandes Sustainer, which is available on various Fernandes models for under $1k.

I had a salesguy demo one for me once, but decided it was not something I would end up using a lot.

By: Seedouble

Seedouble — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Oh my god.

By: ployntabs

ployntabs — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

When did Lou Reed become a guitar player? I know he holds one and takes a few stabs at it when he plays but I thought that was just window dressing.

By: aldasin

aldasin — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Looks awesome, but for that price I’ll probably have to just do what I can with an e-bow.

By: Brett Burton

Brett Burton — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

While all the rich dudes who can afford these are making terrible new age albums, the rest of us will keep plugging away on pawn shop guitars.

By: stratosfyr

stratosfyr — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I wish I’d gotten guitar lessons as a kid.

Instead of recorder.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yes these guitars are very expensive, but they are the first of their kind! Give it a few years when other manufacturers start making their own versions of this pickup design, and the price will drop dramatically.

By: rjohnson439

rjohnson439 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

dude, dig the flutar!!!! it sounds like a flute, but you play it like a guitar!

Where is all this wild stuff coming from?!

http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~eberdahl/Projects/FBGuitar/

By: BookGuy

BookGuy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@marlborotestmonkey7

It’s great if you like to smear together all of the chord changes in a song so that there’s no differentiation at all. Or if you play long, droning songs with no chord changes at all. Perhaps while high.

Seriously, it’s kind of novel, but as a classical guitarist, I’ve spent years perfecting the art of muting strings to keep harmonic lines “clean.” This seems like a nightmare.

By: Wingo

Wingo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Do you hear the sustain? You would if I were playing…”

But seriously, yeah, I’ll have to agree with Brett Burton. I have a lot of respect for Moog and their products, but this seems like a very expensive one-trick pony to me. I can see many a bad new age tune coming from those things.

By: flyingdutchman

flyingdutchman — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Guitar Hero” Lou Reed?

Oh c’mon.

By: Thinkerer

Thinkerer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

SPECULATION: Looks like they’ve added inductive feedback to their pickups eg. the pickups keep the strings vibrating until you tell them to stop, or the strings can be quickly damped by EMF applied by the pickups. Kind of like noise canceling headphones.

By: Tralian

Tralian — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hi there,
lots of great stuff mentioned here, yes the flutar is an instrument, however it is not played like any other stringed instrumenmt, this is why a U.S. pioneer patent was awarded for it’s method. Patent #4,993,300.

By: lercio

lercio — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

sounds like the guitar The Edge (U2) used on the Joshua Tree. The Infinate Guitar.

By: Takuan

Takuan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

HI TRALIAN! STOP USING CAPS! IT SOUNDS LIKE YELLING! THANKS!

By: DarkHumour

DarkHumour — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I remember an interview with George Lynch of Dokken talking about a device called the Sustainiac. The producer heard it while they were recording in the studio and likened the sound of it to a “herd of charging buffalo”. He wanted George to use it on everything.

By: MarlboroTestMonkey7

MarlboroTestMonkey7 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Would anyone explain what would infinite sustain be good for?