Title link takes you to a review by Mike Peake sent to AH back in 2002 on Moog vs. Synthesizers.com. It's an oldie but worth reading if you haven't seen it before. It recently popped up on AH and I figured I'd put up a post. For those of you that read the comments here, you might recognize synthbaron gets a mention. : ) BTW Mike Peak was the man behind the Andromeda A6. He helped make it happen. I remember before it came out he was gathering feedback on AH and Sonic State's the-gas-station. I kind of miss those days. Waldorf was still in business, the-gas-station was still pumping (pun intended) and someone was actually going to come out with an analog poly monster synth. Anyway, I'm going off on a tangent. This post is about Moog vs. Synthesizers.com. Go read about it and then check out some of these videos.
The following is a small excerpt:
"The Moog 904a lowpass filter and the Arrick ladder (in the "traditional" response configuration in which resonance is proportional to Fc) sounded quite alike! Very much so. The tests weren't detailed enough to be conclusive (owning and using both would be the next step) but dang, they were close. The Arrick tracked a hell of a lot better than my Moog filter (but then again, it's not calibrated at the moment) without sounding rigid. The only issue I had with the Arrick ladder was some self-noise. But for the price, if you want something that close, you can't beat the Synthesizers.com ladder filter. You could probably buy three or four Arrick ladders for the price of a vintage Moog 904a!"
Saturday, November 11, 2006
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being lucky enough to have tried both, i'd add just a detail that impressed me, synth.com filter has a feature i've never seen on any other => when adding resonance, signal always becomes a bit more quiet, but not on the synth.com filter
ReplyDeletetry oberheim on this feature ;) even with curtis chips!..
ReplyDeleteNot to slam Mike, but there were many people who were also behind the A6. Erik Norlander, Julie Yarborough, Taiho Yamada and many others.
ReplyDeleteIt was definitely a group effort.
Mike is not an electrical engineer, but his ears and synth knowledge were definitely very important.
I was at the first A6 design meeting at Alesis too.
So was Freff... who slept through most of it. ;-)
In fact, I *may* have sold the very first A6. Not sure, but I had to be silent about it back then because they weren't released yet.
Also had to caution my buyer since he had planned on playing it on the Tonight Show that week.
That would have been a drag for Alesis and their dealers if people saw an A6 on TV and they weren't out yet.
And now.. back to synths.com :)
to moogulator:
ReplyDeletei own a matrix 12 and have tried most oberheim synths (including sem) ^^
KL, You are not an electrical engineer either. Not by a long shot, although you try to act like one. Kinda funny.
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