Swell pedal?

[Axtman]

Is there a pedal that cuts the attack of the string pluck and sustains the vibration?

[touji]

Most of it is done with a volume pedal no? Or an Ebow + Volume pedal??

[JamesHommersen]

VFE Bumblebee
http://www.vfepedals.com/VFE_Pedals/Products.html

[Kromwarp]

I believe that would be a Boss Slow Gear, or the much cheaper clones, the BYOC Lazy Sprocket and the Behringer Slow Motion might be worth checking out

[warwick.hoy]

Originally Posted by Axtman

Is there a pedal that cuts the attack of the string pluck and sustains the vibration?

Even though you may or may not be this almost sounds like your describing dip and swell, or at least maybe something a compressor can do. How to do it? <shruggs>

[colcifer]

pigtronix philosopher king.

[JamesHommersen]

Seriously, check out the VFE Bumblebee, it's exactly what you're looking for. I believe it's based off the old Boss Slow Gear except it's been upgraded and is now more tweakable. I'm getting one in the near future as well as their Phaser pedal.

[Deluge Of Sound]

Slow Gear & Clones.

Alternatively, you can also get a similar effect with the volume knob on your bass: Pluck the string with the volume at 0, turn volume up as needed.

[Joe Gress]

Originally Posted by Deluge Of Sound

Slow Gear & Clones.

Alternatively, you can also get a similar effect with the volume knob on your bass: Pluck the string with the volume at 0, turn volume up as needed.

Or a volume pedal and do it with your feet.

[Eric!]

Originally Posted by JamesHommersen

Seriously, check out the VFE Bumblebee, it's exactly what you're looking for.

YES.

Or, yeah, a volume pedal will give you pure control

[BassInUrFace]

a reverb pedal and a volume pedal.

[CopperheadLXXIX]

Guyatone has an updated version of their Slow Volume which is very, very nice.

[Swimming Bird]

Guyatone Slow Volume and as well. I tried out a bunch in my quest to make Fripp noises and cello sounds, but was never happy with the sustain sections available on some (the Pigtronix Attack Decay was especially a let down because it advertised 'fernandez sustainer'-esque sustains which it did not deliver -- haven't tried the Philosopher King).

I ended up with a BYOC Lazy Sprocket which worked at least as well as anything else I tried. I used a delay for sustaining notes. I would suggest getting any of the mentioned pedals and an EHX Freeze for some swell + infinite sustain.

[Eric!]

My TAFM is a swell pedal


For those that are not privy to my intrusive humor, I am merely using "swell" as an adjective in place of other words like "neat" or "b!tchin"

[asherthemachine]

cheapest way is a volume pedal. laziest way is a slow gear

[VFEpedals]

I just wanted to drop a note here to say that I've updated the Bumblebee circuit one more time. This time I have included a trimpot that adjusts how the swell responds to bass frequencies. It helps both to tailor the swell to work well over the whole neck, but especially for bass guitars. I just put a new clip demoing it on 5-string bass on the website. Please forgive the sloppy playing, I am definitely no bass player! The link to that audio clip is below. Please let me know what you think. Thanks -- Peter

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3249689/BBbass.mp3

[bongomania]

Hi Peter, thanks for dropping by here! I don't know if you saw my review of the White Horse, but I liked it a lot--and I'm looking forward to checking out the next iteration you produce. I'll have to try out one of those Bumblebees, too.

[marijn van gils]

EHX bass microsynth: the attack delay function gives a very nice swell effect, the speed of which you can set with the slider.
Maybe a bit expensive for only this use, but it gives you so much more...

[VFEpedals]

I've made a few changes since the White Horse you reviewed. First, I removed the threshold control, simply because the sustain & threshold controls had very similar functions (just in reverse). That allowed me to add a bass control, which really helps dial in that twangier compressor sound. I also changed the name of the release control to "response", because it really doesn't just affect the release time, it also affects the attack time.

The final part I am working on now is similar to one of your suggestions -- drive + compression. It would convert the 3-way mode switch into a DRIVE control, which would essentially add a standard TS808-style clipping configuration in series with the LDR in the negative feedback loop. In short, it acts like a clean compressor at zero drive, but as you increased the drive, it would begin to add distortion. However, the feel of the distortion would be different than a typical overdrive pedal (and be dependent on the release control), plus have a longer & cleaner sustain because the compressor would still be working at the same time. It's a bit hard to explain, but the early prototypes have been promising, so we'll see what I can come up with after more tweaking.

Thanks again -- Peter