From Chris Whitten Sent Wed, Aug 5th 1998, 19:31
From Chris Whitten Sent Wed, Aug 5th 1998, 19:31
I think the Mutator is a UK made device therefore I would doubt if there was any connection with the company that made the Mutron. More likely tha= t Mutronics have devised a name which has echoes of the Mutron. The Mutator was available before the Sherman and has had the benefit of n= ot being directly compared. I know one producer who is kind of middle of the road who has used the Mutator. The stuff I heard sounded tame. Whether this was the Mutator or the producer I don't know. I have worked with a producer who prays at the alter of the Sherman. It sounded kind of un-controllable to me, very dirty and as I said before ha= d a metallic resonance which always seemed to be present. Those are all things he loves about it. He uses it a lot on guitars. In the UK the Mutator is more expensive than the Sherman. So if it were m= e I would go for the Sherman. Speaking really for me I would rather use a synth. When working with producer 2 I got more interesting, more radical and yet more controllable= sounds via my Arp 2600 audio input and my Doepfer audio input. OK so thats going to cost you several hundred dollars more...but you do g= et a fab synth with it. CW