Troots-Effects, Dub-dedicated manufacturer

Created in 2008 by Tooney Roots, the little french company offers gear for Dub and Reggae producers as well as for DJs.

Mathieu Georges, aka Tooney Roots, is a french technician, sound engineer, musician and producer. He debuted with the recreation of famous sound generators from the 1970s: Sirens, Synare clones, synth drums…

As a Dub fan, he pays homage to King Tubby’s with his FT1 Dub Analog Filter, a multimode VCF with LFO and switch that recreates the passive “step” filter effects also used by the Jamaican sound engineer “Scientist”.

All Troots products are hand-made in the south of France in very small quantities and part of the work is outsourced to Marc Bareille, another famous electronics engineer (Analog Lab).

All the effets have a two-year warranty.

Products currently available are:

SD1 Discrete Dub Siren : solid-state sound generator (LFO + VCO) for sirens, bips, tones… 150€
TR7 Syndrum: op amp synth drum based on the Coron DS7 cloned by Marc Bareille. 230€
FT1 Dub Filter: discrete analogue VCF with LP/BP/HP/Phazing + LFO & Step Cut (similar to a cutoff knob but with an 8-way switch, all voltage controlled). 370€
AD1 Echo: emulates tape echos and Bucket Bridade Delays, Lo-Fi echo with LPF over feedback + LFO to emulate wow, tremolo, chorus… 250€

Full info about Troots-Effects are available at www.troots-effects.com.