In this video, via Vintage King, Bubba Ayoub discusses the Moog Minimoog Model D – both the classic synth and the recent Minimoog Model D reissue.
Ayoub discusses the history of the Model D and the features that made it a unique and a coveted synth.
He also compares an original unit head-to-head with one of the reissued Model D synths.
How about stacking both of them against a soft synth recreation of the Minimoog?
Why would you make the effort to record these two synths, pan them hard left and right, and then not play them simultaneously? In other words, don’t listen to this on headphones.
I really don’t see the point of these. To me they are boring and uninformative. The main question always seem to focus on “are they identical?” So what if they aren’t? I have a 1976 400D and it doesn’t sound like a 1971 early serial number model.
Ooh, Vintage King… you too? I guess the clue was in the name all along but I’m still mildly depressed now…
If you’ve got the Benjamins, buy the Minimoog D reissue.
If you don’t have the Benjamins, have a rummage sale and buy a soft-synth Minimoog.
Good job Bubba!
Bubba Ayoub is one of the few people who knows enough about the history of Moog to really make cogent and valid statements about this synthesizer, and comparisons between the new version made by the 2nd Moog Music and the original.
I had the reissue…. loved it! Sounded so much better than a Voyager. Voyager sounds compressed. I just wish that the reissue had memory.