A Moog Guitar? Mmm-kay. . .
Show me a person who disrespects Moog synthesizers, and I’ll show you a schmuck. But when the company announced the new Moog Guitar, I was a bit like, “Wh-whaaaa?”
Moog long ago entrenched itself in the hearts of creative guitarists with it’s stellar MoogerFooger series of stompbox-like effect processors. And at first glance, it looks as if the Moog Guitar is a regular guitar with some MoogerFooger synthisis and/or effects processing built in. But after watching Moog’s video on its homepage, and with the company’s insistance that this is not a MIDI guitar, not a guitar synthesizer and not an effects processor, I’m not exactly sure what the Moog Guitar is. It’s clear that you can control the sustian and muting of the strings like on no other guitar, but not being guitarist, the true implications of that may be lost on me.
Moog will be publicly debuting the Moog Guitar at this year’s Summer NAMM in Nashville June 20-22, so we should have more answers after that.
