London, United Kingdom
About this listing
TL;DR: looks in a sorry state, sounds great.Bought in 2015 from Juno in London. The Arturia Minibrute was manufactured with perishable rubber on the cheeks, knobs, faders, mod and pitch wheels and octave buttons. This rubber turned very sticky after a while - here's a Reddit post (not posted by me, just linked to for reference) about the issue: I've cleaned the cheeks and knob and fader caps with rubbing alcohol which has mainly sorted the issue. As you can see in the photos, there is a white residue left on some of the knobs. I haven't tried to clean this off however there is no sticky feel left on any of the caps. The cheeks don't feel sticky anymore however the process of removing the perishable rubber has left an uneven pattern (streaks?) on the cheeks. I didn't clean the octave buttons or mod or pitch wheels as this would involve opening the unit up to remove them and I don't feel to confident about doing that. These wheels and buttons remain sticky.All that said, the synth still works and sounds great! It just doesn't serve a purpose in my process anymore.Unit is sold as is. Comes in original box with manual, PSU and with preset overlays (pre-set overlays not pictured - I just found these on a shelf after taking the photos. They are slightly curved, no folds, so I assume these will iron flat - made of plastic so be careful!)
Price€233.46
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