[sdiy] Best Filter: topic at G8

[Bob Weigel]

Obviously you've been snooping on my hard drive stealing my research for 
the chapters "Wetter was better til Nixon wrote a letter", "The CIA 
Squelches a screamer", and "Operation PRArevoGOOM" from my new book "The 
Audio Files". I suggest you ship your Moog 15 immediately or I shall be 
forced to pursue infringement proceedings.  :-) -Bob

SRRecords at aol.com wrote:

> Obviously the question about which is the best filter is a political 
> one. 
>  
> Now, if the Amerikkkan Govt. wasn't set up in the kapitalistic way it 
> was, ARP filters would've been better than Moog ones.  But since Moog 
> was on all those high-selling records, everyone thought they were the 
> best.  Actually, if you go to Smokinggun.com, you can find govt. 
> documents that prove ARP filters were better than Moog, but there was 
> a govt. conspiracy to make everyone love the Moog filter.  That's why 
> the U.S. Govt. funded bands like Yes, ELP, Rush, and a whole slew of 
> Moogites.  Imagine, the U.S. Govt investing in foreign bands.  That's 
> not what George Washington wanted in his farewell address, and I 
> quote: "be not inclined to invest in foreign prog bands, no matter how 
> great the incentive for the filters in analog synthesizers, whatever 
> those are..."
>  
> Look, I said I would have a "few pints" for my friends in England.  
> This is the result.  All in fun.
>  
> But to make this on topic-ish, the filters in my new Moog 15 are 
> perhaps the most dreamy and succulent things I've ever heard.  Wow, 
> send that fixed filter band into the LPF and you've got 
> paradise....Imagine eating the most perfectly cooked steak (or 
> slow-cooked peppered tri-tip), and you're almost there.  What's even 
> better is when I use the oscillators of my new Wavemakers synth to 
> subtly and slowly modulate the PWM or pitch or whatever on the Moog.  
> "heaven isn't too far away" indeed!
>  
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