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11-28-2007, 03:46 PM
|  | Lookout! Here comes the Fuzz! Moderator | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MO | | | Charles Bukowsky Envelope Filter
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My mind is warped by the possibilities. Someone has decided to market directly to me!  http://www.pedalgeek.com/cgi-bin/new...mand=link--mgb MG Bukowsky Envelope Filter:
The MG BUKOSWKY Envelope Filter is designed to create a wide variety of "wahwah" sounds.
The Envelope Filter is a voltage-controlled, low-pass filter in which the upper cutoff frequency is determined by the amplitude, or "level", of the input signal. The louder the signal, the higher the cutoff frequency. The loudness of the signal therefore controls the "brightness" of the sound.
Four knobs, two 3pdt footswitches, and one toggle switch are provided on MG BUKOSWKY Envelope Filter.
Each Bukowsky Envelope Filter pedal is hand-made in Brazil by MG and features: - Threshold Control: Varies the sensitivity of the filtering action; i.e. the degree of brightness obtained from a given input level. Sensitivity increases as the control is rotated clockwise.
- Attack Control: Varies the attack time of the filter. At full clockwise position, the filter responds almost instantaneously. Counterclockwise rotation of the control gradually lengthens the attack time. Longer attack times serve to create a "wa" at the beginning of each note played.
- Emphasis I and II Knobs: A boost on the mid- bass (emphasis I) and on the mid treble (emphasis II) of the filtered signals.
Reverse Sweep toggle switch: Phase inverter, changes the “starting point” of the filtering action. With the switch on the reverse sweep mode the filter starts on low frequencies, and the switch turned off starts on higher ones.
- Filter Range Footswitch: Makes the range of the filtering action longer, giving an impression of a bigger “wah” effect.
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11-28-2007, 03:49 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Spector Basses/Genz Benz Amplification/Mojo Hand FX | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Dallas, TX | | | Wow...
OK where's Mark?...he's a big filter junkie...maybe he'll pick one up and give us the skinny...LOL |
11-28-2007, 04:16 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Inland Empire | | | Sounds like everything a Qtron can do for less. Except for clip #7, which sounded Moogish only because of the rapid strumming. |
11-28-2007, 04:26 PM
| | Lookout! Here comes the Fuzz! Moderator | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by syciprider  Sounds like everything a Qtron can do for less. Except for clip #7, which sounded Moogish only because of the rapid strumming. | but but but but... Ummm Charles Bruowsky? |
11-28-2007, 04:41 PM
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11-28-2007, 05:25 PM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | | Love the name, love the design. Not so sure about the filter. At least not from those samples. They leave me wondering if you can get a really wet sound out of it. I'd really like to try one myself, or hear other samples, because it seems pretty tweakable.
Interesting that Bukowski is spelled correctly on the pedal itself, but incorrectly on all the manufacturers info. |
11-28-2007, 05:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Seattle | | | How many filters am I going to be tempted by? This site creates more temptation than Beelzebub himself.
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11-28-2007, 05:39 PM
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11-28-2007, 05:41 PM
| | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Labyrinth great author but, how does he factor into the bass world? maybe they're trying to reach that disturbed alcoholic market. | Hey, I resemble that remark! |
11-28-2007, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by TheBigO Hey, I resemble that remark! | To all my friends!!! |
11-28-2007, 05:47 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Lawrence, KS | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBigO Love the name, love the design. Not so sure about the filter. At least not from those samples. They leave me wondering if you can get a really wet sound out of it. I'd really like to try one myself, or hear other samples, because it seems pretty tweakable.
Interesting that Bukowski is spelled correctly on the pedal itself, but incorrectly on all the manufacturers info. | I'm with you on this one. The bass samples didn't do much for me (as envelope filters go)...gotta wonder how tweakable and how "Bootsy" it can be.
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11-28-2007, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by fishtx Wow...
OK where's Mark?...he's a big filter junkie...maybe he'll pick one up and give us the skinny...LOL | yeah i am a big filter junkie, although grygrx has owned a lot in the last couple of weeks and he's been finding ones i've never even heard of too. i think he might be taking the title from me.
as for the clips, no offense but it didn't interest me in the least bit. it sounded more like a distortion unit (in the bass clips) than an envelope filter. i think there were maybe 2-3 actual "filtery" clips out of 7.
plus, dude didn't you get a meatball  when that thing comes in all this new filter GAS will go away. |
11-28-2007, 06:19 PM
| | Lookout! Here comes the Fuzz! Moderator | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by markjazzbassist yeah i am a big filter junkie, although grygrx has owned a lot in the last couple of weeks and he's been finding ones i've never even heard of too. i think he might be taking the title from me.
as for the clips, no offense but it didn't interest me in the least bit. it sounded more like a distortion unit (in the bass clips) than an envelope filter. i think there were maybe 2-3 actual "filtery" clips out of 7.
plus, dude didn't you get a meatball when that thing comes in all this new filter GAS will go away. | I am the master of google and the slave of fedex... soon the meatball will be mine. |
11-29-2007, 12:08 AM
| | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by markjazzbassist
as for the clips, no offense but it didn't interest me in the least bit. it sounded more like a distortion unit (in the bass clips) than an envelope filter. i think there were maybe 2-3 actual "filtery" clips out of 7..
| With multiple clips with distortion I was wondering if it had it's own distortion circuit ala Bassballs, but it doesn't appear that way. While I like to run a fuzz into a filter as much as the next guy, soundclips in that vein have never swayed me to buy a envelope filter. I think they'd be a lot better served with a few more clean clips, ideally some funkier ones. |
11-29-2007, 12:09 AM
|  | Ojo. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beaumont/Calimesa, CA | | | awesome author, fantastic design, "meh" sound samples.
so... who's going to try it first?
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11-29-2007, 06:00 AM
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Originally Posted by grygrx I am the master of google and the slave of fedex... soon the meatball will be mine. | I'm trying to get hold of something that you will just wet your pants over if you like that
From what I remember it has like 10 knobs, 4 switches does LP/BP/HP,S&H and 2 other things I can't remember. If I can get it I might be able to get it sent to you first and you just forward it on to me a couple of weeks later. Either way I sold my Mutron clone in antisipation and I've not even been told if I can get it yet.
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11-29-2007, 09:58 AM
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11-29-2007, 04:58 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Lausanne, Switzerland | | Well it would have been nice if they didn't add this fuzz before the pedal in the samples... at least it doesn't this pedal is capable of producing that distortion... other than that the name and design are hella cool 
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11-29-2007, 05:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Canada! | | | If the author's estate sees this, I feel a lawsuit coming on.
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