The Phaser Behind Siamese Dream and Black Ark Dub | Mu-Tron Bi-Phase

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"In the early '70s, a guitar synth project died before it ever reached the shelves. Two engineers rescued the pieces, set up shop in a former chicken coop in New Jersey, and built something that would end up on Lee "Scratch" Perry's mixing desk at Black Ark... and all over Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream.

Explorers, I waited years to get my hands on a #MuTron Bi-Phase. This is the very first time I plug it in, with no rehearsal: just two phasors, two sweep generators, and a lot of curiosity. Then I run a full Digitakt jam through it to hear what this #Phaser does to an entire track.

And at the end, I answer the question every #VintageGear collector faces sooner or later: is the real thing worth it when there's a plugin for everything? I'll also confess what this one cost me.

Tell me where you land in the comments. Hardware or VST?

CHAPTERS
00:00 The Package I Waited Years For
00:41 A Lost Synth, a Plane Crash and a Chicken Coop
02:02 Unboxing the Mu-Tron Bi-Phase
02:42 Plugging It In for the First Time
02:58 Phasor A on Its Own
04:16 Bringing In Phasor B
04:45 Flipping the Sweep in Reverse
05:02 Gen 1, Gen 2 or the Pedal?
05:17 Both Phasors Swirling Together
05:44 Running the Digitakt Through It
06:34 The Jam
10:50 A Holy Grail?
11:05 Hardware vs. VST
12:23 Why I Finally Bought One

— Gio"