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Robert Moog started out selling theremin kits from Trumansburg, New York, in 1953, more than a decade before he built the first voltage-controlled synthesizer with a piano-style keyboard in 1964. The Minimoog, launched in 1970, and Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach album a couple of years earlier did more than anything else to put the Moog sound into mainstream music, though the company itself went bankrupt in 1987 after years of financial trouble. Moog won back the rights to his own name in 2002 and rebuilt the company in Asheville, North Carolina; inMusic Brands has owned it since 2023. On GuitarBomb it mostly appears as the pedal Behringer keeps cloning, the Moogerfooger. Here's what we've written.
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Moog FAQ4 questions
Why does a synthesizer company appear in guitar coverage?
Because of the Moogerfooger line — analogue effects pedals derived from Moog's own filter and modulation circuits, designed for guitar as much as for synths. The MF ring modulators, filters and drives are a real part of the pedal world, not a crossover novelty.
Who was Robert Moog?
The founder. He started R. A. Moog Co. with his father in 1953; the company was renamed Moog Music in 1972. Its early instruments included the Moog synthesizer, the first commercial synthesizer, followed by the Minimoog in 1970 — both among the most influential electronic instruments ever built.
Who owns Moog Music now?
inMusic, the group that also owns Akai, Alesis, Denon DJ and HeadRush among others. Moog remains based in Asheville, North Carolina; the acquisition is recent enough that the effect on its product lines is still being judged.
What is a Moogerfooger?
Moog's line of analogue effects units in a distinctive wooden-cheeked enclosure — the MF-101 filter, MF-102 ring modulator, MF-104 delay and others — with control voltage inputs so they can be driven by an expression pedal or a synth. They were discontinued and later returned in software form.