Geddy Lee Mini Moog Model D

[R6GYY]

For synth-heads with more money than sense. Sadly not me.

Geddy Lee teams up with Moog

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[Slim]

That instrument sounds incredibly dated now in those songs, but that's part of their charm in the present day for me really.

Funny that he thinks that song is called 'I See Red'

Actually, broadening the conversation a bit - I do think that it was to the detriment of the band that Geddy tried to do so much with keyboards. He wasn't a good player and in a live setting especially he overreached. I don't think he managed to hold it all together enough to keep the vibe of a performing band, if you see what I mean. He had so much more fun on the first couple of tours when he was just nudging the Taurus pedals occasionally.

What they should have done is hire a touring keyboard player. Lots of bands have done that.

[Fishy]

Why?

[Nickslikk2112]

Knock £4k off the price and I'd be in there

[Slim]

Why?

Would have made, I believe, for a more enjoyable experience for the fans, leaving Geddy to play bass and sing. They were so much better live when he wasn't trying to keep across banks of keyboards.

[Thenop]

Why?

Would have made, I believe, for a more enjoyable experience for the fans, leaving Geddy to play bass and sing. They were so much better live when he wasn't trying to keep across banks of keyboards.

Was at one time sort of their business model though: look! the fabulous band with the dude that does vocal, bass AND keys at the same time!

[Fishy]

Why?

Would have made, I believe, for a more enjoyable experience for the fans, leaving Geddy to play bass and sing. They were so much better live when he wasn't trying to keep across banks of keyboards.

Sorry was wondering why was he bothering teaming up with moog

[The Picnic Wasp]

You'll be relieved to learn that my paragraph on Behringer clones and Arturia soft synths got binned by this Samsung tablet before posting. I hate Android!!!

[Matt2112]

Oh...it's actually pronounced "Moag", is it?  I've been under the wrong impression for only about 45 years, then.

[The Picnic Wasp]

Geddy used to pronounce it Moog until recently

I wish they'd shown more of him noodling away to those tunes though. The price is nuts. The Behringer Poly D clone can be bought for £569 and is reportedly pretty close to the real thing. If you buy all Behringer, the Wave, UB-Xa, Poly D and their Minotaur module, you can have a brilliant rig just like,e Geddy's from the 80s and have change from £2000. Go original, PPG3, Oberheim, Minimoog and Taurus and you're over £20K. I don't know how Behringer do it, or are allowed to but I'm very tempted.

Edit: Alternatively there's Arturia Analog Lab Pro which has all those synths and more in software form for around £150 and sometimes half that when on sale. Something I really like is Rush Keys Deluxe by Allan Lobo who has programmed all the famous Geddy synth sounds including Taurus for use with Arturia Analog Lab. Looks great fun.

[David L]

Oh...it's actually pronounced "Moag", is it?  I've been under the wrong impression for only about 45 years, then.

Yes, I found this out a while back.Probably one of the most mis-pronounced words in modern (music-related) parlance.

[Nickslikk2112]

Oh...it's actually pronounced "Moag", is it?  I've been under the wrong impression for only about 45 years, then.

I've known that for years, but still say it like a bovine noise with a "g" at the end. It's how it's spelt innit.

[The Picnic Wasp]

Oh...it's actually pronounced "Moag", is it?  I've been under the wrong impression for only about 45 years, then.

I've known that for years, but still say it like a bovine noise with a "g" at the end. It's how it's spelt innit.

Nop might disagree with our insistence on cattle impersonation.

[Thenop]

Oh...it's actually pronounced "Moag", is it?  I've been under the wrong impression for only about 45 years, then.

I've known that for years, but still say it like a bovine noise with a "g" at the end. It's how it's spelt innit.

Nop might disagree with our insistence on cattle impersonation.

Meh (see what I did there?), I am ok with the Moog pronounced incorrect. Not in the last place because I too did so...
Moag, don't know. Feels like Moag-ue, making it a fancy instrument.

[R6GYY]

Alternatively there's Arturia Analog Lab Pro which has all those synths and more in software form for around £150 and sometimes half that when on sale. Something I really like is Rush Keys Deluxe by Allan Lobo who has programmed all the famous Geddy synth sounds including Taurus for use with Arturia Analog Lab. Looks great fun.

I've just taken a look at the Rush Keys Deluxe website. Mightily impressed and it must have been a tremendous amount of work to build all those presets. Thanks for the heads-up about that 

From what I can tell you don't need full blown Analog Lab to import the presets according to the website blurb. I've got Analog Lab Intro (a licence was included with my Arturia Minilab 3) and this will do the trick. In fact the free Play version will also work, so I think you would only actually need to fork out for that Presets pack.