Good low priced Filter?

Kwesi · #1 02-08-2010, 01:40 PM

I'm not too knowledgeable about pedals so sorry if I'm opening up the flood gates with this thread.

So there are two specific sounds I'm looking and I think that a good LPF will be able to get me to them... or at least a filter of some type, lol. I think that it's a combination of an octaver and a filter and I have an octaver but I know nothing about filters so need help there.

The first is the sound that Janek Gwizdala gets in this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ah-jfIe87I

the second would be a variation of that sound but with more of a "gulp" to it. I saw it described by another TBer as the "synth gulp". I don't have a clip to show what I'm looking for so I hope the description is enough. Thanks guys!

Kwesi · #2 02-08-2010, 01:42 PM

oops, just realized I posted this in the the Basses forum. Could a mod please move it to the effects forum?

bass.bert · #3 02-08-2010, 02:55 PM

...a used dod fx25/fx25b for the "gulp"!

Swift713 · #4 02-08-2010, 03:56 PM

is that a ring mod?

jetofuj · #5 02-08-2010, 04:13 PM

I guess that Gwizdala is using classic dub combo - Boss OC-2 + Moog LPG. You really don't have to look further

Funkinthetrunk · #6 02-08-2010, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Swift713

is that a ring mod?

That's what I thought.

bass.bert · #7 02-08-2010, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Swift713

is that a ring mod?

maybe oc-2 + chorus + youtube compression...

Kwesi · #8 02-08-2010, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by jetofuj

I guess that Gwizdala is using classic dub combo - Boss OC-2 + Moog LPG. You really don't have to look further

Forgot to mention that I'd like to keep it below $150 and a Moog is nowhere near that, lol.

RickenBoogie · #9 02-08-2010, 05:40 PM

If I weren't already happy with my filter, I'd be looking long and hard at the new MXR pedal.

bassman03 · #10 02-08-2010, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by bass.bert

...a used dod fx25/fx25b for the "gulp"!

Beat me to it!

fightthepower · #11 02-08-2010, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Kwesi

Forgot to mention that I'd like to keep it below $150 and a Moog is nowhere near that, lol.

You can find the MoogLPF's for $175-200 used if you look around, and they are the best candidate for these tones, for the least amount of money... though the FX25 as mentioned is very cheap and will at least give you the closed filter dubby tone, though without the ability to sweep the frequency cutoff and its a little bit lacking in the lowest notes as its a bandpass filter and cuts' off the lowest sub freqs; overall it sounds very good though and a nice cheap option. I don't think the FX25 will do the gulp you're looking for (if I have the right idea) because its only an upward sweeping filter and not the best envelope for synthy stuff in general, imo. The other recommendations I can think of for these tones (and some can do the gulp as well) are further away from your price point.

For the gulp, I think you want a downward sweep envelope filter, and with the Moog you would need a CP251 to invert the Env Out and patch it back into the Freq input.. other filters that I can think of with a nice downward envelope for synthy stuff are well over the $150 mark- maybe someone else can chime in with that

Kwesi · #12 02-08-2010, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by fightthepower

You can find the MoogLPF's for $175-200 used if you look around, and they are the best candidate for these tones, for the least amount of money... though the FX25 as mentioned is very cheap and will at least give you the closed filter dubby tone, though without the ability to sweep the frequency cutoff and its a little bit lacking in the lowest notes as its a bandpass filter and cuts' off the lowest sub freqs; overall it sounds very good though and a nice cheap option. I don't think the FX25 will do the gulp you're looking for (if I have the right idea) because its only an upward sweeping filter and not the best envelope for synthy stuff in general, imo. The other recommendations I can think of for these tones (and some can do the gulp as well) are further away from your price point.

For the gulp, I think you want a downward sweep envelope filter, and with the Moog you would need a CP251 to invert the Env Out and patch it back into the Freq input.. other filters that I can think of with a nice downward envelope for synthy stuff are well over the $150 mark- maybe someone else can chime in with that

Thanks for the detailed response! I actually have a 3Leaf Groove Regulator on the way. Could that do the trick as far as the synth gulp? As far as the more DnBish sound that Janek got I'm thinking that the Subdecay Prometheus (used of course

) might be able to get me there and loads of other fun things. Would I be going in the right or wrong direction?