A short tutorial on making your own Vactrol, then using it to make a simple but effective passive Low Pass Gate in the West Coast style. Thanks Don Buchla for inventing this way back :)

Roman Sowa brought my attention to a mistake I made: " LEDs do not have any lag, they are as fast as lightning. You cannot see short blink because your eye cannot see it, not that LED have not emited the light. It's the LDR what brings that lag." Thanks Roman!

Here's a cool thread about this for some more ideas! https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/vie...