Warm Audio Mutation Phasor II vs Witch City Music Factory Light Cycle
The Warm Audio Mutation Phasor II and the Witch City Music Factory Light Cycle are both pedals. The Warm Audio Mutation Phasor II leans dynamic.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.9% — quite different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Electronic
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$139.99via Reverb
The Warm Audio Mutation Phasor II reproduces the Musitronics Mu-Tron Phasor II, a legendary 1970s phaser circuit prized by collectors and funk, psychedelic, and progressive rock players for a deeper, more envelope-responsive sweep than most conventional phasers offer. Mu-Tron's original units have become rare and expensive vintage collector pieces, making faithful clones like Warm Audio's an important way for modern players to access that specific, historically significant sweep character without hunting down and paying vintage prices for an aging original. Warm Audio built its reputation on accessible, accurate recreations of iconic vintage studio and effects hardware, and this phaser continues that mission within the modulation effects category specifically.
Witch City Music Factory names this pedal Light Cycle, a direct reference to the glowing vehicles from Tron, a naming choice that suggests a bright, digital, or futuristic-leaning modulation or synth-adjacent effect rather than a warm, vintage-voiced circuit. Small independent builders frequently draw on pop-culture and film references for pedal names specifically to signal a tonal or aesthetic direction before a player even plugs in, and a name evoking Tron's neon, high-tech visual world points toward something bright and electronic rather than earthy or organic. Specific circuit type and control layout for the Light Cycle aren't confirmed from available sources.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Progressive Rock
- Funk
- Experimental
- Ambient
- dynamic