noizHARDWARE Matrix Mixer 2022 - Brushed Aluminium

Custom made 5x5 Matrix Mixer
Anodized Aluminium
PFL on each channel
Pluck'n'Duck flexi-VCA on each channel
Submix on each channel
Normal output and +20DB adjustable boost output on each channel
Mutes on all inputs and outputs
I had this made to order. It cost just shy of £900 3 years ago and because of the lockdowns etc. took a couple of years to get to me. Made in Italy. It's a lovely bit of kit and has had very light use. Selling as I need to lighten my load.

The Pluck'n'Duck flexi-VCA inputs are very fussy about the kind of mini-jack that they will take so I have includes high quality mini-jack cables - 3x1/8"stereo-1/8"stereo and 1x1/8"stereo-1/4"stereo which have been tested as working with the CV inputs.

A bit about the Pluck'n'Duck flexi-VCA from the manufacturer:
It is a VCA with a built-it envelope follower and a combined [gain]+[attenuverter] knob. What does it mean?
It means you can use any type of signal as a CV (control voltage) to pilot the volume of what goes through the VCA.
If you are using a regular CV, no problem, it acts as a normal VCA. But you can use AUDIO to trigger the VCA, and even very faint audio, like the sound coming from a phone, even at low volume, you just need to adjust the [gain] control, packed with a 100x (+40dB) gain control!
With the [smoothness] control you can, well...smooth the CV signal! It is actually the Release control of the envelope generator, with a little influence on the Attack as well (with a 1/24 ratio).
Then it comes the best part, the attenuverter! The [gain] control has two directions: before and after 12'o'clock. Turning it clockwise increases the amount of the incoming CV, while turning it counterclockwise inverts it.
With an inverted CV, what you get is a side-chained compressor! That is, when the CV is high, it ducks the incoming audio, from here the name Pluck'n'Duck, as in normal operation the VCA sounds a bit like you're "plucking" the incoming sound.
And of course you can still use the [smoothness] control during "duck mode", for all interesting effects.

The circuit is vactrol-based, giving it a very soft and musical response, while being NOT an lpg (low-pass gate), thus only affecting the amplitude of the incoming sound.
And yeah, now you can have these on your matrix mixer! Both on matrix junctions or outputs.