When the Stompbox Hall of Fame is built, the wing dedicated to Mike Beigel and Mu-Tron will be a place of pilgrimage to players and fellow builders alike. To enthusiasts who savor pedal aesthetics, the corridors of Mu-Tron will celebrate the coolest-looking stompboxes ever built. For builders, it will be a place to toast the inventive spirit of Beigel and his associates—engineers who combined strong musical sensibilities with ace, often irreverent engineering chops.
Stompbox fans from both camps will get a kick out of the Boston 3 from Beigel’s newer pedal-building concern, Mu-FX. Born of a collaborative effort with software specialist/working musician Rand Anderson and longtime Beigel design partner Richard Lingenberg, it’s a cool amalgamation of Alembic Strat-o-Blaster-, Orange Squeezer-, and RAT-inspired circuits in an all-in-one drive that reflects the spirit of inspired recombination that defined Mu-Tron effects, from the Volume-Wah to the Bi-Phase. It might also be one of the sturdiest and handsomest effects boxes you ever stomp on.
