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Here's a rare bird!

This 2008 Moog Paul VO Collector's Edition Prototype Sustain Electric Guitar is about as cool and high-tec as you'd think. It's made with a Swamp Ash body with a Quilted Maple top, a glued-in Maple neck, and an Ebony fingerboard. It has a 1.704" nut width, 25.5" scale length, and it weighs 8 pounds 4 ounces. It features a nice flat radius and a modern C neck shape for a shredder-friendly feel. It comes with a tweed hard shell case, expression cable, special Moog strings, and all the corresponding cables. 

This guitar is in very good condition, with little play wear. There are just a few marks on the guitar here and there, but no cracks or splits. The frets are in excellent condition with plenty of life left in them. 

Thanks for looking! Here's a great write-up from musicradar.com:

In the basic Full Sustain mode (with the Moog filters disengaged) and the magnetic-only voices, the Vo Power control introduces the other-worldly sustain like a volume control. Now it's not unique as a sound, but less random and buzzy than the Fernandes Sustainer and although it works on all notes, some are quicker to vibrate and therefore sustain more quickly than others.

With the filters disengaged, the footpedal acts as the Harmonic Blend, bypassing (we think) the rotary control - as you push down on the treble, the sustain/feedback becomes more fundamental. As you heel down the higher harmonics are emphasised and the sound becomes higher pitched (apparently on the production model this will be reversed for a standard wah-like configuration). It's a very natural sounding part of the feedback-like sustain.

Controlled Sustain mode focuses electronically on the single note, or notes, you're playing and successfully mutes the other notes so you don't have to worry about damping. Anyone who's used E-Bows and sustainers before will know how convenient that is, especially with higher-gained, high volume amp sounds.

The Mute mode turns the guitar into, well, a banjo with very short clipped sustain. A little odd, though it might be handy for the occasional special effect (although one of the Moog distributor's staff told us this was popular with shredders who love their gain and use it to articulate their blurred note cascades).

For the two Moog filters, think slightly squashy wah, and more squashy wah. The footpedal acts like a wah to control the filter sweep while the Harmonic Blend comes into play (doing what the footpedal did previously). You can apply the filters to the different sustain modes.

Listed8 months ago
Condition
Brand
Model
  • E-1 Paul Vo Collector's Edition
Finish
  • Blue Quilt
Categories
Year
  • 2008
Made In
  • United States
Body Shape
  • Double Cutaway
Right / Left Handed
  • Right Handed
Number of Strings
  • 6-String
Body Type
  • Solid Body
Bridge/Tailpiece Type
  • Tremolo Bridge
Fretboard Material
  • Ebony
Neck Construction
  • Bolt-On
Number of Frets
  • 22

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Nashville Used and New Music

Nashville, TN, United States
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Product Overview
The discontinued Moog E-1 Paul Vo Collector Edition features a flame top finish and gold hardware along with the ground-breaking Moog electronics that allows this guitar to infinitely sustain each string separately and blend harmonics using a knob on the guitar or a separate expression pedal. 

Years of Production: ca. 2012 - 2014
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