Minimoog Reissue vs Original

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[@ZenMountain]

An actual musician who shares empirical knowledge because he actually knows what he's talking about. And a great instrument. Thank you, Matt.

[@danieltx7066]

Not all of us are good musicians, but we still enjoy having fun and making sounds. No apologies.

[@dankeplace]

I have seen people gloat that they own one, yet you don't ever hear them play it with skill. Anyone can finance one of these and use it as a trophy queen. Doesn't make them musically capable to rip like Matt does. I could never afford one of these, that doesn't bother me, I am not into things this big and mono, I have other gear that gets me where I want. Doesn't mean I cannot appreciate the D or how people use it.

[@jamaharon]

@@dankeplace can you be more dull

[@dankeplace]

@@jamaharon could you be even more obtuse?

[@jamaharon]

@@dankeplace Show us on the doll where the bad man touched you

[@gunnarvestlund2729]

Thank you for not comparing waveforms for 20 minutes.😅

[@gainofdysfunction4135]

Those things can be tedious but I am glad someone is doing that as well - and satisfying an audience that is interested in it. Not me, but I don't judge. There is zero harm in it.

[@wolfunplugged]

that combination of an electric piano+minimoog+jazzprogressions sounds so damn cool! love your keyboard skills. you really created that wonderful sound which I associate with jamiroquai...

[@ThomasQA_JamTracks]

Definitely wanted more of that!

[@Station2Station-du2gh]

Wow...they are sooooo close. Thanks for doing a proper review, Matt. Stellar playing and matching up, Matt.

[@autoy]

Rob didn’t say they sound worse, he said they’re built worse. Which is true.

[@Station2Station-du2gh]

@@autoy I'm fairly certain Rob said they don't sound anywhere near as good as the original - and this was circa 2016 re-issue. But you could be right and he said build quality. I've been inside my re-issue and I have no problem with the build quality. I'll edit my comment above and remove the words on Rob because I've only heard 2nd hand reports of his comments.

[@stevebatty2518]

Loved the wobble and reaction, just like us excited amateurs opening our new toys.

[@sunrise5803]

Congrats on the Grammy Matt. Good to see current artists are appreciating your sound. Thanks for the great videos!

[@AlisonCassidy]

Even to my antiquated ears, it feels like the new MM is just a little brighter than the older one, maybe? Both of them are absolutely dreamy! ❤

[@MattJohnsonJamiroquai]

Yes I think it's fair to say it's slightly brighter. I think possibly due to the age of the components

[@AlisonCassidy]

@@MattJohnsonJamiroquai I’d say you’re absolutely right on that. Or maybe even variance between instruments. Who knows!

[@itinerantghost]

Dreamy sounds! Lovely to see this comparison (and the sounds) coming from you, Matt!

[@alexbrown7176]

Such a warm sound. I love how battle scarred your old one is.

[@Siete7Black]

Your videos are the only ones I watch excitedly from the beginning to the end without blinking, you are the best 🙌

[@bitbotrecords]

Love watching and listening, hope you make more vids of th Moog, happy days❤

[@Gianmaria_]

Thanks Matt: your videos are always interesting, informative and musically tasty. Your style is so elegant, distinctive and inspiring: superb! :)

[@DeepspaceHorizon]

Great sounding synth, thanks for sharing this amazing moment ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫💥

[@jeuxdeau2009]

Always good to see a video from you ,Matt !

[@funkelektroniq]

soooo lovely, especially moments when they sounds simultaneously)) thanks for the video!

[@VintageVibePiano]

Beautiful demonstration, Matt!!

[@fawltytenor]

Many thanks for sharing! Lovely playing!

[@corneliusmulhollandmusic3570]

New gear day!!!🎉🎉❤ Thanks for the video! Hope you enjoy your new Minimoog and happy holidays 🎄🎄

[@jon_gee]

Love you Matt!!! Moog man!! Sounds so good. Absolute class.

[@Dar1oGom3s]

Thank You! Amazing Sound! Good Vibes from 🇧🇷✌️😉

[@ridgerider7402]

Nice Matt, it sounds good, enjoy. I learn so much from your videos 🙌😎

[@thisisokmusic3721]

Hi Matt, with your videos and your music, you always manage to present every instrument in such an exciting way that one wants to have it...😅🤩

[@kylen-unixowy]

Thanks for the video, it sounds wonderful and you play great atmospheric :)

[@mixolydian2010]

Both sound gorgeous Matt!

[@retrosound72]

I have an old Minimoog from the late 70s here. Wonderful sound and so reliable. Had the chance check a Reissue in 2018. The sound is a bit different in some settings. But both are great .

[@wackerburg]

Awesome video. I actually didn't watch it most of the time, just listened and had a peek when you did the comparison and when I could clearly a "winner". Just as in "I prefer THIS one". And it always was the old one, cannot even say why. It kinda grabbed my heart. Interesting.

[@Rivendio]

May it serve you well for a long time, it`s definitely in the right hands. It`s a joy listening to you playing with such a feeling...

[@angeldc54]

Matt, you bring joy to my life.

[@MattJohnsonJamiroquai]

Thanks!

[@mrnolex]

Got mine in January and even though I'm not even remotely close to your playing skills the instrument itself just seems to become such a natural extension of yourself when played. Hard to explain really but you just feel connected to it..and to the music. No clone or plugin will bring that to the table.

[@kurtyhearty]

Thats absolutely true.

[@gainofdysfunction4135]

Agreed, though I am a lousy player and the only useful stuff I get out of anything is to sequence them. My noodling time is great for getting fresh ideas though, but no one would ever care to hear it - least of all my wife LOL

[@spadogs]

Sounds great. Too bad Moog has gone by way of the dark side. The sale to InMusic means Moog is no longer part-employee-owned. InMusic fired a large portion of the Moog staff in Asheville and is relocating the production to Asia. So I hope your new unit is US made from the Ashville factory. Mine is and I love it!!

[@fjfrancois]

Yeah these are sad news 😢

[@Alleycat20507]

I’ve been off the grid musically for a few years, and reading this truly broke my heart. I am a proud owner of a 2017 Minimoog reissue, and was a real fan of how the company operated and took care of its employees.

[@N-trepid1]

Agree re: Sad new re: the InMusic acquisition. If I'm not mistaken, production of Moog core flagship synths (Matriarch, Moog One, Model D. Sub37) stayed in the US.

[@sw1ne2001]

Spellbinding ending, great beginning and 'reasonable' middle... ;) Sounds amazing. Thankyou.

[@StanAllDay]

Sick and then in the end you drop some drum and bass

[@chickenlickin3820]

Awesome vibes Matt!

[@nestordls]

Excelente demostración!

[@DanielRojasBuscaglia]

Matt, congratulations on the new member of the family, haha, excellent, thanks for sharing the interesting comparison and may it be a motivation to create new music. Best regards ...

[@futuristiccavemanofficial]

That som gun sounds INCREDIBLY BEAUTIFUL 😍

[@mcgyrus]

Thx for the side-by-side. Been sooo curious and TBH wasn't gonna find out any other way. Thx Matt! OH! Maybe a heads-up before cranking the filter notch would make the video more enjoyable. The self-oscillation + headphones was still intense on my laptop at 1 volume. Still glad to hear it, though.

[@AgustinDavidF]

The Moog, the one and only. So beautiful music, Matt!

[@SandcastleTheory]

Congrats, Matt! If anyone deserves a new Model D, it's you. Here's to the next 40 years... ;) Cheers!

[@matthewdotson2186]

Good to see you're releasing new videos, Matt! I've missed your keyboard videos on my KZbin feed. I still gotta say... the Rhodes piano and Minimoog is my all time favorite keyboard combination. It touches a part of my soul, you know what I mean? I've got the Moog Sub Phatty and Behringer Model D to get me close to the sound. I've been eyeing your Vintage Vibe keyboard on their website. It's a bucket list purchase for sure. Hoping I can own the real deal one day.

[@MattJohnsonJamiroquai]

I'm always releasing, you have to click the alert bell as KZbin doesn't like me haha!

[@KILLAGORILLA7000]

Fantastic comparison Matt. You're corrrect that comparing in a musical context is much more valuable than sweeping through the oscillator shapes and filter responses. I just wonder how the Behringer stacks up in such capable hands haha!

[@sasarasa88]

I asked myself the same question. How would the Poly D compare? I am pretty sure that Matt would make it sound wonderfully in a musical context.

[@benzmobil]

What I love about the Moog synthesizers is that they always sit in the mix so well! Priced for a reason.

[@davejohn23]

Priced kind of outrageously I'd venture.

[@kurtyhearty]

Fantastic! Congrats with the new mini!! It was a stonehard goodbye to the old one😂 which sound with your playing sold me! I evaluated all options to this instrument and luckily I ended up buying the original, before Moog goes south. The warm organic sound & instrument feel is so inspiring, can´t stop playing.., a dream come true and still dreaming

[@glennanderson9947]

Thank you Matt, great video and performance. An actual Minimoog sitting on top up a real electric piano as God intended. It does my heart good.

[@adrianjapp]

Sounds amazing. Love some that essential Jamiroquai 'signature' there. Mint!

[@gainofdysfunction4135]

Happiness is Unboxing a Brand New Minimoog

[@rockstarjazzcat]

love it. congratulations on joining the reissue crowd, matt! best, daniel

[@jeshkam]

I'd love a full Matt Johnson Rhodes & Mini D early 1970s vibe album!

[@samprock]

Woohoo! Enjoying mine so much as well! 🤩 Would not lie, yours sounds somehow ... better, don't know why 😉 One thing to note, keybed is so good on reissue. Real premium and pleasure to play from keys to sound to looks.

[@sanamusic]

Bro anything you touch turns to gold

[@skiiizo]

Thank you for the video Matt 😁

[@krider7296]

What a great comparison. I love your playing and both Minimoogs sound amazing. If you were closer to me (in Canada) I could bring your old Minimoog up to spec and add MIDI. With a little TLC old Minis can be made exceptional and play perfectly. Keep up the great work.

[@Frakaphoto]

sooooo good music, thanks

[@SkillipEvolver]

So awesome to watch this Matt! To a synth absolute novice like myself, the Moog is immediately exciting. And I guess that must show what a successfully ubiquitous synth it is. The old one, is this the one you mentioned ages ago having suffered cigarette smoke? It definitely looks that way! 'goth mode against its will ' 😆

[@Minimoog7]

Congratulations, Matt!!! Enjoy it!!!

[@ladyapp-titude]

Just lovely

[@1dkappe]

Matt, you rock and funk!

[@AlainHubert]

Looks like you're running out of room there, Matt... If you don't use your JP8 I would gladly take it off your hands ya know? 🤣 More seriously, you could send your beat-up Mini to Jareth at Synthpro he does amazing work restoring vintage synths. He also did a restoration job on a Minimoog re-issue (like the one you just got but the 2016 batch), and he found surprising things about its build quality. Anyway, great video, an excellent job at matching them, and a superb musical demo as usual, and thanks for sharing. Congratulations on getting a brand new Minimoog D!

[@JamesMyddelton]

Fantastic sound :)

[@life-is-inspiring3953]

I got the 22 reissue and it’s an amazing instrument; very well built and sounds GREAT. it’s expensive but worth every penny

[@larsuk9578]

Sounds fantastic, thanks for another great video. Would be interesting to have a comparison with the Moog Voyager you have in the back 😊

[@andremello6455]

Mesmo Minimoogs da mesma época soam diferentes. Não seria diferente com esses de gerações diferentes. Mas o novo passou com louvor. Aprovado.

[@vakula5500]

amzg. thx Matt. also have those BIG SYNTHS but the vintage one with Sample & Hold device - really rare.

[@ringsystemmusic]

Oh man that Moog lead on the drum and bass was awesome.

[@spadogs]

Also liked your patch cable. I actually ever patched the pressure to the filter on the model-d before, using a pedal instead. What a dream!!

[@marinerecords58corshagwen]

The Minimoog is the "Stradivarius" of the syntesizers, every sound played on it, sounds like electronic poetry.

[@ondrejpelikan6935]

Could you make an 24-hours video of You playing different synths from Your previous videos? It would save my academic career :D Aslso thanks for this one! You are literaly the only one I would watch make this kind of comparison video :)

[@VEsound]

Hi Matt :) The reissue is great, I had to think about it when it was released but I prefer to keep my Minimoog Voyager (XL) because of its precious patch memories (and the additional features of the XL version). As you said at the beginning of the video the Moog sound is in the air! What a synth company...

[@NickHchaos]

You could also build one with identical components to the best sounding Model D ever made with more capabilities via AJH Synth in a Waldorf KB37 or something equivalent in eurorack for a substantially much lower cost, that’s what I did. AJH out Moogs Moog, incredible work they’ve done.

[@Jeff_____]

the full AJH Synth minimoog is about $5800 right?

[@NickHchaos]

@@Jeff_____ no way, more like 60% of that if you bought new, and I bought almost everything used or at a discount, so closer to $2500 for me.

[@Jeff_____]

@@NickHchaos oh cool. Based on their price list on the website it looks like it would cost more. Thanks!

[@_alexxon]

Seems like the modern model D sounds exactly the same as the past! And your performance is perfect as always!

[@user-nu7xx7pc1d]

amazing video!

[@McN4styFilth]

They're very very close for sure. I do feel all the wear and tear on the vintage unit gives it a unique characteristic. I've been blessed to play and own a few oldies and even within the same year of production (prophet I'm looking at you) can sound and behave differently. Anyway I'd still pick the reissue as a player. Thank you for the video!

[@marzzz1]

I had a mid-70's original MM back in the day, but "had" to sell it in 1980 to "help" pay for University. I bought a 2016 Reissue the moment they became available, and now NO ONE will make me part from it. Nearly 8 years later, I get the same thrill and deep satisfaction playing it as when it first arrived. Total deja vu with regard to my long-lost original! I will continue to maintain the subtle differences in sound between Original and Reissued units are well within the tolerances of when they were originally manufactured. I also installed the MUSE Board, which made it even more (!?) perfect. Congrats on your new instrument! Now if only someone would do a proper reissue of the Jupiter 8...

[@depalma1726]

I always had this thought of , man someone’s gotta have the skill to play every synth in the planet so I know which one I really like. Insane to see on video the actual guy doing it. Impecable playing

[@soundlimit300]

Very nice Matt.

[@kierenmoore3236]

All these newer analog synths sound a bit brighter and more focused than the vintage ones … which is what I think many perceive as ‘thinner’-sounding … Is it just 20 years of component drift etc? … maybe, though I doubt it’s purely that … In any case, there are positive trade-offs, like features and (one would hope) greater reliability (though only time will tell there) … Every new/reissue analog should have a ‘Vintage knob’, though, imho … Just another thing that Dave Smith (RIP) got right … Enjoy her! 😎🤙🏼

[@entropybentwhistle]

Had a good laugh at the unboxing. Fave KZbin music channel host humming “The Stripper” by David Rose while opening a MiniMoog box is top tier entertainment.

[@kannon3979]

I would love to see Matt, Mike Dean & Jordan Rudess collaborate on a song together. Keyboard wizardry at its best.

[@kbstabs5982]

Matt, I could see right away that you really needed another keyboard. Great mastery as usual!

[@MattJohnsonJamiroquai]

I need a bigger studio!

[@nobbystyles4807]

id say the new one sounds just ever so slightly more immediate.

[@nubianrose_theband]

Magic for the soul 🙌🫶

[@downpatmusic]

Reminds me of a Hammond B3 in the way that you dial up the sound you want and are always dialing in the sound while performing by turning the knobs, or draw bars, in the Hammond's case. The Minimoog has the sound of a classic instrument and you warm it up, tune it up, and play it. The closest modern synth we found to the Minimoog when we did our testing way back when (before You Tube) was a Nord Rack (the original) at least for bass. It stayed in tune and you could save the patch. We migrated to the Nord Leads for studio use for that reason in the 90's I believe it was.

[@KNIGHTJUMPS]

This guy is super humble and cool. 😎

[@rleriche5044]

3:20 oof It was cool to see how quickly you bonded with the fresh Mini. Great playing as per..

[@RubiconRecordings]

Stunning, … it sounds so much better than your old one, that was a surprise

[@TeddyLeppard]

Classic sounds.

[@alexspiterigingell915]

Epic sound

[@FFrrEEddRRiiKK1]

Wow you make these instruments swing my dude. I look at this and get serious clockwork orange, shining and blade runner/vangelis vibes.

[@Jin-Hu]

Man, such a nice video, yours always brings a smile to my face, I’ve been enjoying Jamiroquai since Emergency back in the day, gotta say, you seem to be a big part of that Jamiroquai sound. Thank you for sharing your lovely new Moog and your beautiful talent. So what’s happening with the goth edition model D? Some surgery and a new home or pop it in a corner to enjoy now and again?

[@MattJohnsonJamiroquai]

Keep it as it is probably

[@MattPicsET]

Love my reissue Minimoog! ✨

[@howardbaldwin1226]

I owned a 1973? model. On of the first in NZL. I had to take a huge transformer with me everywhere as it was USA 110v not NZL 240v. Even then I had a lot of problems with fuses blowing. And, of course, it was hard to keep it in tune with my Fender stereo suitcase piano when playing live. It tended to drift - often depending on where we were playing! I sold it back to a local music shop after I left the amateur music scene. Great times though and a beautiful sounding instrument.

[@Hamfantasy56]

The two beasts are virtually identical: same beefy tone, the new one obviously seems more "stable"...your joy put me in a good mood 🙂🙂🙂

[@EVILJAMARR]

My guy! You did it! At least you're not putting candles on your hard drives anymore 😅❤

[@aerospacepat]

Wobbly stands, Rhodes, and Minimoogs; classic Matt at his best 🙂

[@BruceCopenLaboratories]

Hi Matt - cool comparison - wouldn‘t it be an idea if you publish a „reissue patch-book“? I guess it would be quite an interesting item for mini-lovers😅

[@samprock]

+1

[@coolo73]

Imagine if he just made a patch bank for the for the official Minimoog app. Moog sells patch collections as in-app-purchase, but they’ve never done a jazz-funk focused one. I’d gladly pay 5 or 10 bucks for a bank of Matt’s lead sounds. Should be a lot easier now that he has a calibrated reissue Mini. It could also serve as patch book of sorts and learning tool for beginners.

[@BruceCopenLaboratories]

@@coolo73 exactly - that's what I thought 👍

[@marcom.]

Instant Jamiroquai machine. 😄

[@dachiklangmusik]

12:15 ❤.. aargh .. love this 🙏🙏

[@w1zard0f0h]

That has to be the most iconic synth ever.

[@Songwirer]

impressed by the similarity (and the state of the old one too, although it sounds amazing still)

[@PetrFink]

Beautiful video. For work, preparing stuff, midi, for some "thinner" sounds, the reissue is just pretty fine, but still, the old one outperforms the new one with its "velvetness", rounded/fuller bass. The old one just sings, it has a bigger soul. (Btw. I can tell too .. I have four moogs at home. 1x Vintage/ 1x the lastest vintage, and two behringers model D. - Always going for the oldest one for recording it)

[@MuzixMaker]

Gorgeous. I have an original 70s model.