Mutronics Mutator on Ebay

From the listing:

" This is the ultimate filter unit... This one is hardly used, owned by West Coast Dub Hop Band "Heavyweight Dub Champion"- only used in studio and babied all the way. It is in near mint condition. Email if you have any questions.

from the Mutronics website...

The Mutator is a stereo analogue filter and envelope follower with full control facilities. It contains two independent voltage controlled filters similar to those found in analogue synthesizers, which can be used to treat any external sound source. Each filter can be controlled from its own associated low frequency oscillator (LFO) and/or its own envelope follower section, which extracts the envelope contour of an input signal and applies it to control the cut-off frequency of the filter.
Each envelope follower can be switched to track either the envelope of the sound that is being treated by the filter, or that of an independent external control signal. This external control signal can be any audio source , eg. a drum sound, a guitar, a synth, a sampler output, or even a microphone. Thus the envelope characteristics of one sound can be superimposed onto the filtering contour of another.

Another switch on the envelope follower selects envelope follow mode or gate mode - in which the circuit detects whether a signal is above a certain threshold level before switching on.

In gate mode, the device can operate much like a dedicated noise gate unit, with the added capabilities of the analogue filter

The LFO's have four different sweep waveforms each and may be switched via a stereo link to produce stereo panning effects.

Used by

Massive Attack - Leftfield - Nellee Hooper - Radiohead - Thrash (The Orb) - Youth -Moloko - Edwyn Collins - Andy Weatherall - William Orbit - Marius De Vries -Sasha - Battery Studios - John Smith (Blur engineer) - The Rapino Brothers - Dodgy - Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) - Charlie Hall - The Creatures - Real World Studios - Lisa Stansfield - Barry K Sharp - Jah Wobble - Tongue & Groove Records - Mute Records - David Toop - Mark McGuire - Ry Cooder - Steven Barkin - The Dust Brothers - Q Engstrom (Depeche Mode engineer) - David Arnold - Beck - Pascal Gabriel - Joey Negro - Nine Inch Nails - The Lightning Seeds - Daft Punk"

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