Synth Bass on Steroids: The Power of EFX Pedals

video upload by Anthony Marinelli Music

"In this video, Anthony reveals one of his personal favorite trade secrets. He shows us how to transform any synth bass sound into a synth bass on steroids by using various combinations of 5 different guitar efx pedals including the Electro Harmonix Big Muff, MXR MX-134 Stereo Chorus, Musitronics Mu-tron Phasor II, MXR MX-118 Analog Delay and A/DA Flanger. He illustrates the difference and importance between the wet sound (efx only), the dry sound (no efx) and mixing the wet and dry sound together. By running both of these sounds into a mixer, you have the option to add as much special personality from the wet sound without losing the energy and definition of the solid dry bass sound. You can then add as much of the wet sound as you prefer, much like adding spice to your food. Think of each pedal as a spice from a different part of the world. When you get the spice balance between wet and dry just right, you’ll create a sound with a unique personality. This is one of the special powers that comes from using EFX pedals with synthesizers and a sure fire way to create synth bass sounds on steroids.

CHAPTER TIME STAMPS
:00 intro
:16 Electro Harmonix Big Muff (silicon fuzz)
1:37 MXR MX-134 Stereo Chorus
2:58 Musitronics Mu-tron Phasor II
4:19 MXR MX-118 Analog Delay
5:32 A/DA Flanger
6: 53 Summary

Anthony's musical touch as both composer and performer is connected with some of the most influential creative minds over the last 40 years. He’s composed and conducted original orchestral scores for over 80 feature films including Young Guns, Internal Affairs, The Man From Elysian Fields, 15 Minutes and Planes, Trains & Automobiles, been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for his symphonic work "In the Family Way", written over one thousand TV commercials in a myriad of musical styles, co-founded Levels Audio Post (LA's premiere post production facility) and performed and arranged on big-box-office films and influential hit records such as Michael Jackson's Thriller.

His extensive work as a young arranger, orchestrator and performer for Quincy Jones, Jack Nitzsche, Lamont Dozier, Arthur Rubenstein and Giorgio Moroder was vital in launching his own career. His early years pioneering modular analog synthesizers along with his wide-ranging music scholarship positioned Anthony at the center of the music technology revolution. He attended the University of Southern California School of Music as a piano and composition major."

Website: www.anthonymarinelli.com

EP346 Arturia Phaser BI-TRON - Demo and Tutorial

video by CatSynth TV

"We preset a detailed demo and tutorial of Arturia's Phaser BI-TRON, a recreation of the classic Mu-Tron Bi-Phaser effect unit.

00:30 Background info on phasers and the Mu-Tron Bi-Phase
01:19 The main interface of the BI-TRON
01:56 Minimoog example
02:35 Detailed walk-through of features (with Arturia CS-80 V as source)
05:57 MicroFreak example (and envelope follower)
07:00 Vocoder and and BI-TRON with envelope-follower
08:44 Retro sci-fi example with Sequential Prophet 12
09:33 Funky jam with three BI-TRONs!"

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Part 1:

Arturia FX Collection: Bus Effects (Bus FORCE, EQ SITRAL-295, Comp DIODE-609)
video by CatSynth TV

"In the first of several videos exploring the updated FX Collection from Arturia, we look at the brand new bus effects: EQ SITRAL-295, Comp DIODE-609 and Bus Force. We demonstrate individual parameters and factory presets of these plug-ins and show how to use them on mixes.

00:47 EQ SITRAL-295
03:49 Comp DIODE-609
10:38 Bus FORCE"

Processing Dub Techno Stabs (Ft Yamaha E1010 Delay, Master Room Spring Reverb & Mu-Tron Bi-Phase)

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"After my video about the Sound of the Musitronics MuTron BiPhase Phaser ( [posted here] ) someone ask me a demo with Techno Dub or Reggae Dub Chord Stab so I did this video quickly .

For this one I use the Novation Peak Synthesizer to do the stabs, Switch off the effects of the Synth, then I send the sound directly to my Yamaha E1010 BBD Analog delay then I send the signal to one channel of my MicMix Master Room XL-210 Spring Reverb , finally I send the signal to the Mu-Tron Bi-Phase.

Voila

Leonard de Leonard"

Musitronics Mu-Tron Phasor II VINTAGE Mutron Phaser SN 11854

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"Works as it should. All original parts including 2-prong ac cord. Beautiful, rich sounding phaser."

Modded Korg DW8000 Analog Synthesizer w/ Musitronics Angel City Turbo Upgrade

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via the seller: "This synthesizer works absolutely perfectly and has a few significant upgrades- most notably the rare DW Turbo Expansion from Musitronics / Angel City. This allows for bi-timbral patches (with splitting or layering), a new (really exciting) modulation generator waveform (random S/H!), keyboard transposition, two simultaneous MIDI send/receive channels, patch 'compare' functionality (to hear the saved version of a patch before overwriting with your live patch), and additional patch storage banks!

I also added three switches just under the joystick: portamento push-button, patch up push-button, sustain/hold toggle (great for tuning, performing with drones, etc)."

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MUSITRONICS MU-TRON BI-PHASE

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"This is one of the greatest (and biggest) effects pedals ever made - a genuine vintage Musitronics Mu-tron Bi-Phase. As used by Lee Perry (and many more): this pedal is the real deal..."

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Musitronics Mutron III Envelope Filter with Original PSU & Box

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yousenditworks

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MUSITRONICS (MU-TRON) FLANGER

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"like any Musitronics FX unit, the Mu-tron Flanger is just great, with an amazing vintage sound, from very smooth, to very experimental - it is very, very rare, hardly ever seen in Europe and certainly not at this very fair starting price which is lower even, than the prices seen in USA - where the Musitronics Flanger is on offer, very occasionally.."

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Roland D-550 Linear Synthesizer w/ M.EX board and PG-1000 Programmer

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"Roland D-550 with Musitronics expansion (M.EX) board. The M.EX board makes the D-550 multi-timbral, giving you the power to play up to 8 tones and 4 patches at once. This board triples the D-550's memory to store 192 sounds. It adds 10 new displays and 42 new parameters, providing enhanced capabilities for playing live or for use in a sequencer-driven environment. All voice allocation is done dynamically. You can create and save separate Multi-Mode settings for every patch, giving you instant access to 192 Multi-mode settings. This board also includes the Speed system which increases timing by 35%. More info, manual download, and sounds at Musitronics website. Also, included in this auction The PG-1000 programmer. Makes programming D-550 a breeze. Sliders for every function."

Vintage MUSITRONIC 6 Keyboard ORGAN MKS-470

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Be sure to see the pic of it folded up.

"Circa late 1960's, this is a rare MUSITRONIC 6 Keyboard Organ once marketed to schools as a teaching tool for potential musical prodigies. There are 6 identical 4 1/2 octave organ keyboards, each one with its own volume button, 5 tone position switch, and a low/high balance switch. They are all attached to the main organ which controls which organ is to be played. Two control panels have color-coded on/off switches that match the knobs on each keyboard. Measuring 75" long, 31" wide, and 29" high, this organ has 4 smooth rolling wheels. When not in use, the organ can be easily folded up and neatly stored away.

This 6 Keyboard Organ is in good working condition. All of the keyboards work although there is some static due to dust; it is in need of a good potentiometer spray. Great for classroom or stage group use !! Awesome at a party !! This is an incredible unique piece of music history that would make a wonderful Christmas gift for the serious collector !! Please enlarge all photos for maximum viewing. Pick up only: Manhattan area or Kearny, NJ."

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MUSITRONICS MU-TRON III Envelope Filter (Auto-Wah) SN 12414

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Vintage Musitronics Mu-Tron III Envelope-Filter

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"Three selectable filter types: Low Pass, Band Pass, and High Pass. Peak and Gain potentiometers. Filter trigger response is variable from low frequency to high frequency or vice versa. Runs on two 9-volt batteries, or Musitronics PS-1 power supply."

Mu-Tron Bi-Phase w/ C-100 Pedal

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FRAMED 1975 MU-TRON SYNTHESIZER PROMO AD.LARRY CORYELL

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"Rare Original 1975 MU-TRON PS-1 Synthesizer Promo Ad Display

'Ad Features Larry Coryell, guitarist for The Eleventh House'"

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Musitronics Mu-Tron Bi-Phase Vintage Pedal

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Serge Quad Slope and Wave with Tr-606

YouTube via b3nsf
"Playing the Quad Slope as oscillators through the waveshapers under TKB control, tr-606 through the mu-tron phasor and a fender mini amp... fun times!!"

Serge good electro shock device

Serge good electro shock device by b3nsf

"dial in your settings and fry under the electrodes... feedback patch with mu-tron phasor and serge m-odules.... Live one take, with reverb added.. Enjoy!"

DUB mix practice

YouTube via electro303
"DUB mix practice
Roland RE-150 tape echo
Mu-tron Bi-phase phaser"

1973 MU-TRON Promo Ad

via this auction

"original framed promo ad for Mutron featuring Larry Coryell that came out of a 1973 music publication."

You can find more info on the Musitronics MU-TRON III on mu-tron.org.

Musictronics G-170 pianolab Six Keyboard lab synthesizer

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Details:
"This is a very unusual vintage item, Hard to find. It is a six keyboard music trainer. It is designed so that a teacher can have 6 students sit down at once and they can teach them all at the same time or indidvidually. 120 volts ac.

The keyboards all have their own headphone jacks for independant operation and also there are some swithches on the unit that seem to allow coupling together so each can hear the others for duet, trio,etc up to all 6. Also has some in or out jacks so maybe you can mix with other sounds? Not sure of all the functions of the other switches, but there also is built in speaker under the console too. There is some type of wired remote as well, I assume so the teacher can combine or separate each. Each keyboard has its own headphone/output jack, level control, and a multiposition "voice"control, that changes the sound to different synthesized sounds. They have a nice early synth sound to it perhapse like a simple moog or early roland?. Polyphonic ( multiple keys on each keyboard can be pushed and work at the same time) Probably uses early standard analog synth generators perhapse made by one of the big synth companies- all put into this big console -may be more valuable for someone to separate into six early synth units and sell each separately. It has been tested and all of the keys on all of the keyboards worked (except for the one of the keyboards seemed to have scratcy controls and has one key that did not work-probably needs contacts cleaned or adjusted). We did not have a lot of time to further check this, or know what all the extra switches on the remote and console do, so it will be sold as is-guaranteed not dead.

It conveniently folds up and wheels away so it is sort of portable. Because this item is so large it will be local pick up only or you can arrange truck pickup from your end after its' paid for."

I remember seeing this in the latest Future Music shot video via Sonic State.

via Cynthia of Cyndustries.