Moog Music Receives Premier Guitar’s Premier Gear Award

April 20, 2010 - PRLog -- The Moog MF-105M MIDI MuRF has been awarded a Premier Gear Award in the May 2010 issue of Premier Guitar.

The Premier Gear Award is an honor bestowed upon a piece of gear—whether guitar, amp, effect, or other gear— that has been extraordinary enough to impress the staff of Premier Guitar. Despite the high quality of all gear reviewed by Premier Guitar, only exemplary items earn the award.

“I improvised with the MIDI MuRF live during a few shows before completing this review,” says reviewer Brian Barr. “It was inspiring to play both live and at home; it added a whole new dynamic to my sound. The MIDI MuRF is an instrument in itself, and it will add enjoyment and imagination to your music.” Premier Guitar awarded the MIDI MuRF a rating of 5.0, the highest possible rating. The full review can be accessed at: http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2010/May/Moog_MF_105M_MIDI_MuRF_Pedal_Review.aspx

“We’re very gratified that the MIDI MuRF received the Premier Gear Award honor,” says Chris Stack, Product Marketing Manager for Moog Music. “We put a lot of love and hard work into the design and manufacturing of our products. Recognition like this lets us know that we are doing it right and it means a lot to us. We can’t wait to hear the innovative uses that Premier Guitar readers come up with for the MIDI MuRF.”

“At PG we want our reviews to focus on premier instruments and equipment for discerning gearheads, professional players and tone chasers,” says Premier Guitar’s senior editor Chris Burgess. “So we're always on the lookout for the best guitars and gear we can get our hands on. Occasionally, our reviewers come across something that positively distinguishes itself from the rest.”


About [Moog Music] (http://www.moogmusic.com):
After ten years of making theremins, providing unearthly sounds to science fiction movies and avante garde musicians, Bob Moog met experimental composer Herbert Deutsch, whose search for electronic sounds inspired Bob to create the first Moog Modular Synthesizer. At the end of 1977, Bob left Moog Music and in 1978 founded Big Briar for the purpose of developing and building electronic musical instruments with novel player interfaces. Actual Moog keyboards were made for the better part of the next decade by Norlin Music, but with the heart and soul of Moog gone, Moog keyboards ceased production by 1986. Bob reclaimed the right to use the MOOG MUSIC and MINIMOOG trademarks in 2002, and immediately changed the name of Big Briar to Moog Music Inc.

About Premier Guitar (http://www.premierguitar.com):
Offering guitarists news, gear info and education/instruction, Premier Guitar is the multimedia resource for players who are serious about their tone. Premier Guitar’s gear-centric print magazine has a monthly circulation of 32,000; the industry's only complete and freely accessible digital magazine (digital.premierguitar.com) that serves more than 40,000 readers every month; a mobile app that is now available for free download featuring content in its entirety from current and past issues (itunes.apple.com/us/app/premierguitar/id357976896?mt=8); a Web site (www.premierguitar.com) that's the fastest-growing portal in the guitar industry with an average of more than 700,000 unique visitors consuming more than 17 million page views per month; and the market's leading interactive gear search service that attracts more than 200,000 monthly visitors (www.premierguitar.com/gear/gear_search.aspx). In total, the Premier Guitar monthly magazine content is read by over 675,000 unduplicated guitarists, with 30% of this readership being international. Premier Guitar also publishes a weekly e-newsletter, Backstage Pass, which serves over 80,000 subscribers. Premier Guitar is published by Gearhead Communications, LLC, a subsidiary of Premier Media Holdings, which also publishes the Guitar Edge multimedia network (www.guitaredge.com) in conjunction with the Hal Leonard Corporation (www.halleonard.com). Premier Media Holdings, LLC is employee-owned and based in Marion, Iowa with offices throughout the U.S.

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Premier Guitar offers guitarists a multimedia source for news, gear info and education/instruction, PG is the media home for players who are serious about their tone.