Envelope Filter - Flea/Bootsy sound

[4strinbass]

hey i'm looking for an envelope filter to give me that Flea/Bootsy Collins sound. I havn't had much luck finding one and i'm new to the whole effects scene. Any help would be really useful. Thanks in advance.

and on a completely unrelated note, i'm going to a Victor Wooten/Marcus Miller concert in August! Man i cant wait

[bongomania]

Well, the first thing is that both Flea and Bootsy have many different envelope filter sounds they've used in different recordings, so there is no one "Flea/Bootsy sound". If you have a particular song or two in mind, we can tell you which pedals will get you close to that specific sound. It will help a lot if you state your budget, as some of the most Bootsy-like filters are very expensive. If you don't have any particular songs in mind, and just want a good envelope filter, then I'd suggest reading some of the many hundreds of threads we've had about them.

[JanusZarate]

The general pedals most people think about when it comes to either of those guys are the Electro-Harmonix Q-Tron+ and the Musitronics Mutron-III (which the Q-Tron is a descendant of... both were designed by the same guy).

But Boosty is also known to use plenty of other pedals, among which I know the Electro-Harmonix Bass Micro Synthesizer is included.

So yeah... narrowing it down to a few tracks you had in mind would help us help you.

[Mark Olson]

They've also both used the DOD FX25. I have a DVD from the nineties where Bootsy actually uses the FX25 as his main filter instead of the Mutron. But yeah, Bootsy has basically used everything.

[4strinbass]

i'm for the sound flea gets when he plays during his master session video at 3:28 http://youtube.com/watch?v=QpUvgcIVPzY&feature=related.

[bongomania]

Are you blind? They show the FX25 closeup in the video, and he talks about it, and the comments on the first page name it as well.

[Mark Olson]

Yeah, that's a DOD FX25.

Edit: Oh beat me to the punch! Yeah.

[Ryan Mohr]

Yea it's one of the sparkley green FX25s

[4strinbass]

yea i saw the pedal and paused the video but i couldn't make out the letters. but then i read the comments, yea i'm an idiot feel free to remind me. thanks anyway