{"product_id":"moog-minifooger-mf-delay-pedal-pre-owned","title":"Moog Minifooger MF Delay V1 Pedal Pre-Owned","description":"\u003cp\u003ePre-owned in very good condition, this Moog Minifooger has some stickers for a great sounding setting. Original box and power supply not included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Sound on Sound by Gordon Reid\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Next in line comes the MF Delay. Based upon four BBD chips nestling inside a compander wrapper, this reminded me of my first echo pedal, but with much higher-quality results than something that cost me £95 (£580 at today's prices!) in 1976. Its controls are standard: delay time, feedback, drive and wet\/dry mix. With a maximum delay of 700 milliseconds (Moog make the common mistake of writing this as 700 milliSiemens, which is a measure of electrical conductance!) it offers longer delays than many low‑cost analogue units. Despite being quoted as infinite (which is impossible) the maximum gain in the feedback loop is just on the cusp of unity so, while the MF Delay will self‑oscillate if you wait long enough, you can't use it to create many of the classic sci‑fi effects that are such\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ea favourite staple of analogue and tape delays. I found this to be true even with the drive set to its maximum, which was a little surprising. Of course, the MF Delay also suffers (or, as some would say, benefits from) the usual attributes of BBD echoes, the most noticeable of which is that the bandwidth drops as the delay time increases.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn their blurb, Moog talk about creating \"natural room‑verb sounds” but, of course, there's nothing natural about the quasi‑reverberant effects that you can squeeze out of a BBD delay line. The company also state that the \"Mix control allows dry signal to be completely eliminated,” which turns out not to be true. I don't understand why they feel the need to exaggerate; the MF Delay sounds great and creates a very desirable class of delay and echo effects — slightly dark, and hugely musical. Used with the Z1 (especially with the MF Drive placed before the MF Delay) it was impossible to tell that the resulting sound wasn't being produced by a very large and very expensive analogue synth from the dawn of progressive rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat's more, the MF Delay has another valuable trick hidden up its analogue sleeves. The blurb tells you that the expression pedal input can be used to control either the amount of feedback or the delay time, even though there's no visible way to switch between these. (Unfortunately, you have to remove the bottom cover and select one or the other using a micro‑switch mounted on the main circuit board, so it's an either\/or choice in normal use.) I selected the Time mode and, amongst many other possibilities, this allowed me to modulate the delay time using the output from an LFO. I used the combination of a Roland System 100M Model 150 LFO and Model 130 Dual VCA to generate a huge range of modulation CVs and applied these to the EXP input (again, a simple TS cable sufficed) to obtain many interesting variations on simple chorusing and tape‑echo effects. Why variations? It's because the tone of the input signal tends to be much brighter than that of the delayed signal, so it's impossible to mix them to obtain traditional chorus\/ensemble results. As for the promised flanging effects, forget it. I was unable to generate these no matter what I tried. Nonetheless, many of the resulting sounds were superb.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shop Purchase","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44263181484075,"sku":"MFdelayV1","price":549.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0814\/7883\/files\/MG_5063_2246fb66-97ec-44af-9790-985721a10cbe.jpg?v=1782806354","url":"https:\/\/therockinn.com\/products\/moog-minifooger-mf-delay-pedal-pre-owned","provider":"The Rock Inn","version":"1.0","type":"link"}