Gary Numan Replicas intro on busted Polymoog 

If that's what a busted sounds like, I can't help wonder how non-busted sounds. This performance was so atmospheric... Cue mental-visuals of super-industrial dystopic future!

Busted !! WTF that's a beautiful sound ! do whatever you need to keep this incredible sound with us. As a true Numan fan I say to you - Respect !

thank you for your comment, i listen to it and wish it was perfect but you can hear the 30 years of abuse this machine has had. i found it in our local junc auctions still with its box, all mouldy and grotty. paid 150 quid for it and its costing me some money now buying the parts for it.

I hear God blessing me through this sound. 😔🙏

It's busted, it may be even be gone, but what a sound it left us. Please never take it down!

Its raw poly recorded into the line in on my computer into nero wave editor then i added a phaser and a bit of reverb, and then tweaked some filtering as the filter sliders on my moog play up when messed around with too much, I hate it but love it, its like an old car, its a bastard to start, runs like shit but you love it for being like that lol

Bloody best intro of any song going!

aaah, Vox Humana... such an unearthly beautiful sound ! ! !

Got to admit, I keep coming back to this myself. One of my favourite favourites.

Thats some coffee table table you got there my friend!!! At the moment my coffee table (203a) is 95% restored to ALL its former glory... and I can't wait to pick it up in a few days from the shop when it is closer and closer to 100%. These buggers are problematic sure, but there are many simple things you can do to them to alleviate their design faults... Such as switch all LEDS to modern ones ... LOVE this sound! Good work!!!

Honestly friggin outrageous BUSTED OAFT what a sound

my god !!!!what an awsome sound.nothing sounds like the mighty polymoog! just fabulus! please do some more!!

Busted my arse !!! it sounds awesome - such a beautiful sound

Un suono veramente spettacolare, puro analogico. Grande PolyMoog!!!

If this is busted, KEEP IT BUSTED!

This is electronics weeping

F'ck me mate, that brought back so many happy memories and I had a tear in my eye, very emotional piece. Thanks for doing that, Moog's have got to be best Synth's ever!

fantastisk! gåsehud og brystkassen presses. En af de bedste introer.

Dopiddy dope ass dope yo!

what a wonderfull machine and espacially this vox humana sound. This sound almost would make you feel like crying.

Please don't let the moog die.....What a sound, What a tune !!!!!!!!!!

Keep coming back to this. Gives me the chills every time again and again! Hope your Moog is still alive?

best sound in the universe, fact

nothing sounds as beautiful as this Vox Humana sound ! ! !

The Numan vibe is strong with this one

synthpro. He can fix this!

Awesome machines.✌❤

that sounds awesome

My son specializes in repairing and restoring these. Please look up Jareth Lackey.

Sounds good! I have checked this video out several times and still enjoy the sound. I finally got me a polymoog 280a with the legs for 300.00USD. It is going to need a little work, but it is going to be nice to have that great moog sound.

My fav synth sound, hard to beat :-)

This is Guys Outro music too! Cheers, god speed. Si

Amazing ...........

If I may suggest something....whatever you do, don't toss the whole thing out!!! If anything, you can either part it out, or get one being parted out and replace the parts needed. These older vintage Moogs are worth thousands and being sold for thousands. And there are plenty of vintage synth lovers like myself who really like hearing stories of them being refurbished and restored. I hope you can get it fixed and by the way, it sounds really awesome and the sound just on my computer speakers sounds really phat.

so powerful

Beast!

hi, thanks for the comment, i dont think i'll be selling it now, me and my friend have been working on it and nearly every discrete replaceable componant has been replaced with its modern counterpart. it now turns on and works fine apart from one problem, due to differences in companants due to manufacturing, its terribly out of tune now lol. not bad for £150 and spending about £200 on bits for it. just need to touch up the case now and give it a long overdue clean and polish.

It was hard to avoid.... I suppose it was a shame.... but they didn't even try....

good job...and good advice...play it loud.

remember that the polymoog was dying when i recorded this, but the only way to recreate that atmosphere is to be at wembly, have the big speakers and the atmosphere lol thanks for you comment.

NICE!

Pqp olha esse Som,o Gary Numan sabia usar o Sintetizador perfeitamente.

awesome

Thank you all for you wonderful comments, just proves that the £150 quid i paid for the moog was worth it. Thanks

sounds good to me!

If this is broken, please don't fix it.

Busted or not, nothing can beat the Moog sound! Sounds great, RADS190. :) 64m >:-)

@starmaidens1 I've two now, both fully working. Repaired and restored by myself. Love them.

OMG Coooooooooooooooooooooooool

just popping back for another hit.

Ive already built a new power supply for it as the original was very poor in giving a good, stable output. all the filter sliders are now new along with its oscillator circuits. if it doenst fix it, expect to see it on ebay within the next few weeks.

I think PolyMoogs came busted right from the factory ;) Busted or not...this tune sounds great!! Nice work! ***** 64m >:-)

There really are not any VST's i have found that mimic the polymoog and its construction but, if its just the Vox humana sound your after, the closest i have got to it is with the KORG polysix VST. check my other video using the polysix vst for the same intro and playing the numan song M.E

****LITTLE UPDATE**** The old polymoog has finally given up now, the lights come on and thats it, press keys, nothing. RIP polymoog (till i got the money to buy you some new guts)

Sounds delicious like the voice of Peter Murphy.

D + sensacional

Older synths are tempermental, that's for certain... So are old carb'd turbo-cars, or old Italian super-cars. But much like them, what they give out is worth the trouble they put out. Hey... Can you imagine applying a little license to the end of that intro, to lead it into "Cars"? I can.

no, i played straight into the line in to the computer into nero wave editor, then added a phaser and fine tuned filtering in nero as the filters on my moog go to shit when used to much grrr

i don't think this is the 280 model, but the 230 model. The 230 don't have Vox Humana circuit, but have somekind of strings sounds.

Was this made with an MXR phase filter added ? Sounds awesome :)

Hello, you are corrrect, mine is a 203 model with the crappy presets. i tried my best to make the vox humana sound found on the 280 keyboard version. i think it sounded ok'is but as you can hear (apart from louse youtube losses) its very distorted and knackard. Atm my friend and myself are working on it trying to replace as many of its internals with new componants to try and bring it back to life.

How much is a restored one of these worth? i bloody moved it the other day and it was playing up on a few notes. i remebered what my mate had said about the polymoog, so i opened it and pushed all the cards back in, works fine now lol

Rads as in "Radiobeach"?

Hey, I know this video was uploaded 15 years ago. I don't even know if you're still alive but is worth a shot. Could I use this sound for my livestreams? This sound would be amazing to use as a intro before the livestreams start!

I wasnt aware that "Busted" had a polymoog

thank you

lol no they make them work when you turn them on haha, i tell you what though, many VST's can get so close now its unreal, i can go out on stage with a laptop and a midi keyboard and recreate polymoog sounds very faithfully, albeit not strictly completly analog. to someone who knows what it sounds like its un noticable. my 203 (when it works) doenst have vox humana, but i can get pretty damn close in VAR mode, its the same with the VST. best one i found so far is the OP-X pro. bloody brilliant

Dead again, bot fixing it no more, gonna be a great coffee table!

is this the raw poly or do you have some effects on there too?

might let one of mine go ive 4 280s in the shed been there years, when the machines close down

If it's busted, is there any chance of you selling it?

Bang on mate....nowt wrong with it. You would imagine only the likes of Gary Numan, Chris Payne, Billy Currie and Dennis Haynes would be fit to criticise.....

There's a vat version called LUCEifer & a kontak version called ZOM ZOM.

Mmmm, is that really played from a Polymoog 280a...??

there is a reverb on there

Don't do that, let me have it I'll fix it !

**Yogojack. I accidently clicked remove instead of reply on your comment. i got the moog about 6 months ago from our local crap auctions. thank god nobody was there who new how valuble they are lol.

You still have this thing? Sounded really good

Is this really THREE years ago ?

That's not Vox Humana