MOTM

>As far as the electrical design is concerned, if you are keeping the bypass
>switch, a 9th knob for MAKE-UP GAIN should then be added as well.
>Otherwise, there is no point in having a bypass switch because making
>comparisons without matching the levels is impossible!!  Look at any EQ
>with a bypass switch.  If it's going to have a bypass feature, it needs a
>pot for make-up gain.  Having one without the other looks retarded.

You don't really need a pot for makeup gain, because you can do this
with the 10 existing pots already. (All 10 pots up can be more than unity gain,
and as I said before, all pots at 7 is the same sound as all pots at 8, just
the level is different. (I see that an extra gain knob, though redundant,
would further simplify A/B switching, but that's a bit of an overkill IMO.)


>I realize that motm is not intended as meat and potatoes gear.  Yet,
>equalizers with a unique sound often become desirable, even legendary,
>pieces of recording equipment.  I've never seen a Moog used that way, but
>that doesn't mean it's never been done.  Perhaps the Moog was too noisy.
>Thirty years ago, most solid state did not sound good.  Considering what it
>takes to rackmount many popular board modules, mounting two synth modules
>sideways and finding a +/-15 supply is nothing.

This MOTM module will be a circuit which I have first built for myself, and
the funny thing is that I actually put my version into a 19" 1U enclosure
to use it with either MOTM or in another rack with other gear. Maybe
that's why I told Paul that a Bypass switch is crucial, and maybe it's in there
for just that reason. I just like to hear the difference (and it was usefull
to for creating the demo sounds, too. (;->) )
But yes, the Moog original is without Bypass switch, too. So obviously one
can live without it. And I like the idea of running direct signal and filtered
signal to a mixer, or to the VC crossfade VCA, whatever. Just keep in mind
that if the module has no bypass switch, and if you want to patch a bypass
configuration, this would mean considerable extra effort.

JH.