EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 65, Issue 06 This issue's topics: Bootsey (6 messages) I have a MU-TRON... (2 messages) Mutron Wanted: Mutron (2 messages) What is a Mutron? - and more... (4 messages) What is a Mutron? - really! Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 18:11:52 -0400 From: John Sweeney Subject: Re: Bootsey In a dream, these words by J. Michael Roach were imprinted on my mind: > > Who is Bootsey? > Bootsy Collins, bassist from P-Funk. ---- john sweeney jds@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu binary sound(imprints) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 17:41:05 -0500 From: "J. Michael Roach" Subject: Bootsey Maybe I'm too young, or perhaps too stupid, or, more likely, too ignorant. Who is Bootsey? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 01:45:10 EDT From: Glenn Booth Subject: Re: Bootsey not sure, but I think a funky bass player from the "funkadelic" era bands, black pre cursor to disco... I think... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 10:27:40 EDT From: Jody Mayfield Subject: Re: Bootsey >>>Maybe I'm too young, or perhaps too stupid, or, more likely, too ignorant. Who is Bootsey?<<<< Bootsy Collins of P-Funk fame. This guy was the bass player in Funkedelic. He also played with James Brown. Bootsy formed his own band named Bootsy's Rubber Band. This is real P-funk. You should check it out. He used a FX unit on his bass called a mutron. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 11:51:49 -0500 From: "DCumming by way of xrjdm@farside.gsfc.nasa.gov Joe McMahon" Subject: Re: Bootsey Bootsey Collins, Bass player extraordinaire. Played with everybody ion the 70's. He had several top selling albums and play with great musicians. He developed his own wild style. Played with George Clinton, not the presidents' brother, but the leader of Parliment / Funkadelic darryl ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 19:37:23 -0500 From: "J. Michael Roach" Subject: Re: Bootsey > Bootsy Collins of P-Funk fame. This guy was the bass player in Funkedelic. He > also played with James Brown. Bootsy formed his own band named Bootsy's > Rubber Band. This is real P-funk. You should check it out. He used a FX unit > on his bass called a mutron. Thanks for avoided the temptation to make me look like an idiot. I appreciate it. I'll check out the tunes fer sher! :) j. michael ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 17:48:54 EDT From: Glenn Booth Subject: I have a MU-TRON... I have a mutron octave divider if you are interested. Make an offer and it's yours! It has mix, tone, ringer and stabilize controls. It has two footswitches, effect & Bass only... Thanks, soundbooth@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 11:51:39 -0500 From: Joe McMahon Subject: Re: I have a MU-TRON... >I have a mutron octave divider if you are interested. Make an offer and it's >yours! > >It has mix, tone, ringer and stabilize controls. It has two footswitches, >effect & Bass only... > >Thanks, >soundbooth@aol.com Hi, Glen. As mentioned yesterday (you did read it, didn't you?), we prefer not to cut deals on equipment on the list directly. Things like this are better done via direct email. (It would also probably have been cheaper for you to send Jaydawg a message directly, since you're both on America Online...) Please, take this stuff to SYNTH-L (also out of auvm.american.edu, and caters to the gearheads who want to discuss specs and make deals). --- Joe M. -- "Will somebody get the cat off the fender Rhodes?" (MST3K) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 10:27:46 EDT From: Jody Mayfield Subject: Re: Mutron Hey you guys have been great. But I still need a mutron. Like the kind Bootsy Collins played with Funkedelic. This Mutron is an envelope follower or something like that. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 16:50:11 EDT From: Jody Mayfield Subject: Re: Wanted: Mutron *************************************************Anybody, Anybody, Anybody, Anybody, Anybody, Anybody, ************************************************* Anybody, Anybody, Anybody, Anybody, Anybody, Anybody, ************************************************* I need a Mutron, like the kind bootsy collins used. sign JayDawg947 a.k.a Jody Mayfield Money is no object!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 16:19:22 CST From: "Harry F.P. Haecker" Subject: Re[2]: Wanted: Mutron >Anybody, Anybody, Anybody, Anybody, >************************************************* >I need a Mutron, >Money is no object!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GACK! RETCH! We get the message...take it to the synth list, because "money IS an object" here. HFPH haeckerh@nwrc.gov ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 22:08:52 +0200 From: Tommy Anderberg Subject: Re: What is a Mutron? - and more... I'd also like to know what a Mutron is! Any relationship to the Mellotron? - Tommy Anderberg ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 15:55:17 -0500 From: DAVID BAGSBY-PRACTICE NONSILENCE Subject: Re: What is a Mutron? - and more... Hello Mutron is a company that made special effects pedals such as phase shifters, fuzz boxes,... I believe the effect Bootsey used was an octave divider/ring modulator- called a Mutron 2 or 3. They also made the Bi-Phase which was two phasers in one package...Jean Luc Ponty liked this effect alot. They were bought out by ARP synthesizers, who in turn were bought and went out of business. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 13:01:12 PST From: Alex F Stewart Subject: What is a Mutron? - and more... Hi, I was a wonderin' what exactly a Mutron is? What P-Funk/Bootsy albums is one heard on? What other synths, etc. are used on 1970-1980 P-Funk albums? I am not at all interested in buying/selling a Mutron. Also, reply directly to me if this is not of interest to others. Thank you, -Alex (alex_f_stewart@ccm.hf.intel.com) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 11:57:56 EDT From: Jody Mayfield Subject: Re: What is a Mutron? - and more... >>>I'd also like to know what a Mutron is! Any relationship to the Mellotron? - Tommy Anderberg<<<<< Yo Tommy, a mutron is an incredible analog bass pedal. It was popularized in the middle 70's by booty collins. Basically it is a envelope follower I think. (This is what I've been told). But the sound is real phat. peace out jaydawg ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Jun 1994 11:45:33 CST From: Darwin Grosse Subject: Re: What is a Mutron? - really! >Yo Tommy, a mutron is an incredible analog bass pedal. It was popularized in >the middle 70's by booty collins. Basically it is a envelope follower I >think. (This is what I've been told). But the sound is real phat. > >peace out >jaydawg Well, not really a bass pedal. While - maybe - popularized by Bootsy, it was primarily sold to guitarists. It was, in fact, and envelope follow - allowing the patented "auto-wah" sound of the 70's - and not a ring modulator. This unit (the Mu-Tron III is the one I had) had the standardized Mu-Tron shape - side view: ______ _@___/ | |____________| where @ is the push button. In addition to the standard envelope follower controls (threshold, filter amount, volume), it had rocker switches that allowed for reverse filtering (awwww sound) and hi- or low- pass filtering. Also, this is the only envelope follower pedal I ever used that could be forced into self-oscillation! I liked it well enough, but - alas - destroyed it when trying to place it into a rack mount system. Beware of the musician with a drill!!! Cool unit, but not very popular. The "auto-wah" sound was short lived, and most people purchased the MXR, single knob box for the few times they actually needed this sound. Also suffered the Mu-tron disease of requiring goofy voltage power supplies, or a boat-load of batteries ... Hope this helps .. and good luck! [ddg] .............................................................................. Darwin Grosse . (414) 377-2946(h)/359-9800(w) . ddg@prosrv.ems.com .............................................................................. ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************