which is why I love my Broughton Ghost Trap. Two loops, each with variable High and Low pass filters. The High send is influenced by a HPF and then the High Return is influenced by a LPF (to help clean up fizz and hiss), and then it's vice versa for the Low loop. Low send is influenced by a variable LPF and the return is influenced by a HPF (to remove boom or too much low end). Then it's all blended back together and Bob's your uncle.It’s not that complicated, but I used a bunch of words
The bottom line is that you want to modify the clean signal with a filter (extreme EQ) to make it sound best when blended with the distortion. However, that EQ modification changes the signal that hits the distortion circuit, so the character of the distortion changes vs. just sending a raw clean signal to it. I didn’t like the results I got with the blend/loop pedal I tried (the IE Divaracator).
It’d be easier to design a blend as part of the pedal. I was trying to think up a custom blender pedal, so I could insert any pedal I wanted in the blender’s loop. I found it wasn’t as easy as I had hoped for an amateur
I never had success with blending two full frequency signals together or having a High and Low blender that uses the same crossover frequency like the Divaricator. The Ghost Trap solves all that and more
). The dirt circuit responds and behaves differently than it does with a full gain clean signal. I had an IE Divaricator for a while, hoping it would shortcut what I wanted to design, but I quickly learned that pass filtering and/or crossover prior to the clipping starts creating new issues to consider. It certainly gets tricky.
