Cameron Ryan Dutton pleaded guilty on Monday to supplying nine grams of MDMA, or ecstasy, for Strawberry Fields music festival-goers at Tocumwal in 2019.

The plea was entered after police withdrew a second charge of participating in a criminal group and contributing to criminal activities.

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Albury Local Court magistrate Richard Funston told Dutton that ecstasy was "a filthy drug" that "causes so much misery".

"These drugs kill people at music festivals, they will kill people."

Defence lawyer Mark Cronin told Mr Funston that one of Dutton's co-accused had been placed on a 30-month community corrections order.

The difference between he and Dutton, he said, was the other man admitted to supplying "more than four times" the amount of MDMA, or 37.45 grams.

Mr Cronin said the prosecution of Dutton, who was 19 at the time and now 21, led to him giving up his use of MDMA and cocaine.

"As a result of this it's been a very significant wake-up call for him," he said.

Another co-accused, Samuel Owen, 20, is facing a trial by jury in the District Court.

He is accused of the ongoing supply of MDMA at Jerilderie between September 12 and October 4, 2019, of directing the activities of a criminal group with two others at North Albury between September 4 and October 19, 2019, and of supplying 60.8 grams of MDMA at Tocumwal in late November, 2019.

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The court was told that Deniliquin detectives set-up a covert operation dubbed "Strike Force Goolgumbla" to investigate the accused men, soon securing a warrant to carry out mobile phone tapping.

Police said Dutton was close friends with one of the men.

Dutton had the nine grams of MDMA stored at his Albury home.

He phoned one of the other men on November 26, 2019, and the pair discussed packaging that MDMA into capsules and to supply these at the festival.

Each capsule would sell for $20 and the proceeds would pay off their collective drug debt of $4760.

Mr Funston, who placed Dutton on a 12-month community corrections order, said he accepted the offending was an aberration.

"It seems that apart from this everything else is going really well in your life."

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