Cool Effect Idea

Paralooper pedal is a blend with high-pass and low-pass filters in it. There's also a stereo chorus pedal with crossover made by Peavey I think.

 

I'm sure that I am missing something, but aren't you just describing a variable crossover? Are you just saying it would be cool to have one in a pedal formfactor?

 

I understood what he was describing as a variable crossover too.

 

Reminds me of my old trick:

Take the tuner out of my bass rig, and plug it into a guitar amp, using all my pedals with the guitar amp. Lets me use the guitar distortion too. I'd set my guitar amp bass knob to 0.

awesome effects tones , no loss of bass tone at all...

That worked great in a trio, These days I'm in larger bands, more appropriate with a pretty clean bass signal....

 

Well I'm not sure if there are any in pedal form. They are usually rack systems as there isn't typically a need to toggle them fullrange/split for the systems they are usually used for (PAs, DJ setups, etc.)

Like Dannybuoy said, Peavey used to make a chorus pedal with a built-in crossover, but I think they are hard to find these days. Rolls used to make a really tiny one that you could fit on a pedalboard, you'll have to look around to see if they still do so. (I'm sure Behringer probably has something similar as well)

edit: Here's the Rolls item I was thinking of. You won't be able to switch it to full-range from two-way and it might need a line level signal, but they should be cheap enough to be worth experimenting with.

 

Think of the Paralooper as a crossover and mixer combined - the main output will contain the low frequency content and the fx send will contain the high frequency content. If you choose to plug that into a guitar amp instead of the Paralooper's fx return socket, then it's basically just a crossover.

 

WARNING: My engineers hat IS on my head as I write this!

Technically the Paralooper isn't a crossover. A crossover literally splits the signal into two (or more) distinct frequency bands - the high frequency element doesn't contain any low frequencies and vice versa. The Paralooper doesn't "split" the signal - it just mixes a low frequency portion of the 'dry' signal into the 'wet' signal from the fx loop. The signal going to the fx loop is still full range.

Having said that, it's bloody awesome and y'all should make one for yourselves!

...hat comes off...

 

I thought there was a high pass filter on the fx loop and a low pass on the clean signal so if you set both filters to the same frequency it's effectively a crossover?

 

Well, not on the schematic I've seen - it's just a low pass filter and the buffered fx return feeding a mixer.

 

You could just get an A/B or Boss LS3 etc and bi-amp it, then EQ the two amps to suit your taste/the room. I've seen guys do this before.

 

There you go. Switchable HP filter on the fx loop, so you should be able to use this a crossover in a bi-amp setup too, sending the lows to one amp and the highs to another.

 

That is a single pedal.

 

Oh, I see. Well you could do that, but I was thinking of using 2 combo amps with the built in EQ on each. Or you could use 2 stacks but that could be expensive and not necessary in most situations (depending on who you are of course).