Envelope Filter Kit Advice (MXR or Mutron V)

[willdethrill]

What up axers, curious if anyone has had experience with either the MXR Envelope Filter clone kit or the Musictronics Micro V Kit below?

https://store.generalguitargadgets.com/collections/kits/products/musitronics%E2%84%A2-micro-v%E2%84%A2-complete-kit
https://effectpedalkits.com/shop/mxr-envelope-filter-kit/

Im assuming both get me to the sound (more Jerry than funk for me)? Any experience with either of these companies or builds that maybe sway me?

Thank you as always!

[idy]

IMHO the MXR is a more versatile, easier to dial in, musical sounding filter. I would like to do another one with attack and decay knobs and effects loop (this is not complicated.)

I have not done Mutron Mini, only a few Mutron III and they have underwhelmed me, not enough control, quirky.

I have made a whole mess of Meat Spheres... I wish they were as well engineered as the MXR. Hot quirky mess. But a nice board that accommodates all those knobs and switches (still I add a send/return switch with buffer, and now an inverter for phase.)

MXR will not give you the headaches the Meat Sphere induces (What value of LDR? Maybe with a series resistor? What brand IC? etc.) And the Meatball is a tricked out garbled translation of a Mutron.

[idy]

The same guys who you linked to for the MXR offers a "seven dwarves" auto wah, the Mad Professor Snow White. This is also relatively painless and has good control over the effect.

[willdethrill]

Thanks Idy, I ended up pulling the trigger on the Snow White Clone. It provides the additional controls you referenced to help dial in the sound. Seemed like that was a good idea to me. The YouTube clips I could find also had some Garcia and Marley sounds so I felt good as a match for my playing interests. Excited for this to arrive and to get building!