PLAN B analog blog

okiikahuna said:
> Hi.  I saw our good friend Mr. Grenader yesterday and got a chance
> to listen to the new State Variable Vactrol Filter he's cooking up.
> The version I saw was obviously a prototype (no front panel, Peter
> was holding the two boards in his hand while he turned the pots) The
> In addition to Low pass, its got highpass, variable bandwidth
> bandpass and allpass outputs.  I especially liked the lowpass and
> allpass modes. The filter has a really fat sound with some of the
> nicest sounding resonance and distortion I've ever heard: it can
> sound dirty and yet smooth at the same time. It also has that
> peculiar ringing sound you get from Vactrols that I have tried but
> never managed to get any other way. This thing is definitely on my
> shopping list

Me too. The samples Peter posted on the SDIY list had me drooling, and I'm
even more excited about them now knowing that they're going to go into
production through EAR.

> By the way, lest you think that the vast corporate tentacles of PLAN
> B, INC. have reached me: I'm not an actor, and I'm not on Plan B's
> payroll, I've met Peter a grand total of two times.

Heh, yeah, I've only met him a couple of times, and he probably wouldn't
recognize me if he bumped into me on the street, but my two model15s
arrived on Friday. I haven't had two much time with them yet due to a
working weekend and a sick cat, but the little testing I did of them
sounded GREAT.

-Brandon
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