Glou-Glou
Moutarde
Maker: Glou-Glou
Two versions: Regular and Extra-Forte
Current Production (12-2024): No
Retail: $X
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Glou-Glou's Moutarde is another exceptional multi-effect module, this time offering a bank of lowpass filters, a gated fuzz, and a four-voice PLL circuit for creating synth sounds, fuzzy harmonies, thick pitch shift effects, and more. As always, Glou-Glou delivers a pedal with a sound and workflow all its own.
Moutarde's four resonant lowpass filters can be modulated via the internal LFO or envelope follower, making for a dynamic means of timbral modulation. Additionally, the LFO's rate can also be modulated via the envelope follower for modulations that speed up and slow down with the player's dynamics (or an external expression pedal).
The Fuzz section, a PNP transistor fuzz, is in line just before the filters—giving them plenty of harmonics to bite into. The PLL, though, is where much of the magic happens: a set of audio-controlled oscillators that track the incoming signal. When playing chords, these sounds will immediately devolve into glitchy sonic chaos—but when playing monophonic lines, they can cleanly track the incoming signal for stellar synth-like effects. The Transpose and Voicing parameters employ several pre-set harmonizing options: allowing the creation of everything from octaves and fifths to complex harmonies. And of course, by dialing in the Follow and Sensitivity controls, users can vary the "success" of the pitch tracking—making for clean synth sounds, occasional sluggish glitches, and complete sonic chaos.
Moutarde offers tons of options for signal routing and combination, making it possible to do gentle layering with the dry sound, all-out fuzz, and much more. As always with Glou-Glou, the Moutarde does everything from subtle to extreme, making for a synth effect of exceptional class and quality.
MOUTARDE FEATURES
Quad lowpass filter, gated fuzz, and four-voice PLL circuit all rolled into one
Filter bank offers independent control of cutoff, resonance (peak), and modulation depth
Filters can be fed from dry signal, fuzz, or PLL
PLL comprised of four audio-controlled square wave oscillators
Voicings and Transpose switches allow creation of octaves, fifths, and complex harmonies from the PLL oscillators
Internal envelope follower and LFO for sonic animation
LFO speed controllable via envelope follower or external expression pedalAt the heart of MOUTARDE, there are 4 low-pass filters running in parallel.
Each filter can be controlled independently. Cutoff (FREQ) , resonance (PEAK) and modulation depth (MOD).
You can feed the filters by 3 ways: dry signal, gated fuzz or PLL
PLL consists of 4 audio-controlled squarewave-oscillators.
Octaves, fifths, simple or complex chords can be obtained by tweaking 2 rotary swicthes. (VOICINGS) , (TRANSPOSE)
Filters can be blended with the dry signal. (MIX)
Modulation applied to filters frequency can be either envelope, LFO or expression pedal. (MOD)
The LFO speed can be controlled by envelope or expression pedal. (LFO CTRL)
Glou-Glou Moutarde Extra Forte PLL Harmonizer Pedal
Glou-Glou's Moutarde is another exceptional multi-effect module, this time offering a bank of lowpass filters, a gated fuzz, and a four-voice PLL circuit for creating synth sounds, fuzzy harmonies, thick pitch shift effects, and more. As always, Glou-Glou delivers a pedal with a sound and workflow all its own.
Moutarde's four resonant filters can be modulated via the internal LFO or envelope follower, making for a dynamic means of timbral modulation. Additionally, the LFO's rate can also be modulated via the envelope follower for modulations that speed up and slow down with the player's dynamics (or an external expression pedal).
The Fuzz section, a PNP transistor fuzz, is in line just before the filters—giving them plenty of harmonics to bite into. The PLL, though, is where much of the magic happens: a set of audio-controlled oscillators that track the incoming signal. When playing chords, these sounds will immediately devolve into glitchy sonic chaos—but when playing monophonic lines, they can cleanly track the incoming signal for stellar synth-like effects. The Transpose and Voicing parameters employ several pre-set harmonizing options: allowing the creation of everything from octaves and fifths to complex harmonies. And of course, by dialing in the Follow and Sensitivity controls, users can vary the "success" of the pitch tracking—making for clean synth sounds, occasional sluggish glitches, and complete sonic chaos.
Moutarde offers tons of options for signal routing and combination, making it possible to do gentle layering with the dry sound, all-out fuzz, and much more. As always with Glou-Glou, the Moutarde does everything from subtle to extreme, making for a synth effect of exceptional class and quality.
Moutarde Extra Forte FEATURES
Quad filter, gated fuzz, and four-voice PLL circuit all rolled into one
One bandpass filter and three lowpass filters
Filter bank offers independent control of cutoff, resonance (peak), and modulation depth
Filters can be fed from dry signal, fuzz, or PLL
PLL comprised of four audio-controlled square wave oscillators
Voicings and Transpose switches allow creation of octaves, fifths, and complex harmonies from the PLL oscillators
Internal envelope follower and LFO for sonic animation
LFO speed controllable via envelope follower or external expression pedal
Integrated light-dependent resistor (LDR) for expression pedal-like control of filters and LFO speed
Refined PLL modes for a variety of gliding synth tones
