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Effects That Don't Exist, But Might Sound Cool
- Thread starter caeman
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See post #16. Same thing, only in your case it would be a narrow bandpass filter instead of a lowpass filter.
Ok, here's an idea. . . I've tried a number of multi effects units and they each have their strengths and weaknesses. How about a multi that could assimilate individual models or effects from other multis?
I was going to start another thread, but it would go fine here.
Crossover distortion, rather than clipping for distortion. I believe the Zvex Machine does this, but I'd like to hear one with more misbiasing options. Basically it uses a class AB driver and you bias it so they're both off for part of the wave near the zero crossing. I'd like to see options for how much of the wave is unproduced, or maybe set it so both are conducting at the same time for a quarter cycle.
(Edit: send button next to too many useful letters + clumsy fingers = submitting early too many times)
Crossover distortion, rather than clipping for distortion. I believe the Zvex Machine does this, but I'd like to hear one with more misbiasing options. Basically it uses a class AB driver and you bias it so they're both off for part of the wave near the zero crossing. I'd like to see options for how much of the wave is unproduced, or maybe set it so both are conducting at the same time for a quarter cycle.
(Edit: send button next to too many useful letters + clumsy fingers = submitting early too many times)
Ok ok ok.... off the top of my head and doing no research!
An effect with a built in microphone that feeds the ambient sound back through your chain. This could be used as a type of control or have an effect of it's own. It would probably need a noise suppressor built in to deal with the noise, and volume/tone etc.
What's the point? Well someone mentioned earlier about timing an envelope filter to drum beats.. hook this bad boy into a efp and there you go. Another option would be to use a contact sensor that you could hook up to whatever you want to sync with. This would be a really fun option for drums or if you had a little recorder playing something... the contact sensor syncs to the beat and controls your filter/volume/distortion, whatever. Sounds like fun to me.
PS: Yes I read about the pigtronix filter and such, I'm thinking about something more universal that would work with bass/guitar.
An effect with a built in microphone that feeds the ambient sound back through your chain. This could be used as a type of control or have an effect of it's own. It would probably need a noise suppressor built in to deal with the noise, and volume/tone etc.
What's the point? Well someone mentioned earlier about timing an envelope filter to drum beats.. hook this bad boy into a efp and there you go. Another option would be to use a contact sensor that you could hook up to whatever you want to sync with. This would be a really fun option for drums or if you had a little recorder playing something... the contact sensor syncs to the beat and controls your filter/volume/distortion, whatever. Sounds like fun to me.
PS: Yes I read about the pigtronix filter and such, I'm thinking about something more universal that would work with bass/guitar.
I'm kind of surprised there isn't a pedal that wouldn't do anything to your sound, but spits out control voltage or expression based on level input. Kind of like half of an envelope filter, but where you can have it control any other pedal's expression input.
Not sure if this has been done:
An expression pedal that has two effects loops in it. When the pedal is fully on/off, you hear one of the loops. The range between the two extremes would be a blend of the two loops.
I feel like I would be able to get some pretty neat sounds with this.
An expression pedal that has two effects loops in it. When the pedal is fully on/off, you hear one of the loops. The range between the two extremes would be a blend of the two loops.
I feel like I would be able to get some pretty neat sounds with this.
If your idea of "fretlessly authentic" is cycling a quarter tone detuner, then yeah, it's authentic. If your idea of "fretlessly authentic" is sounding like a fretless bass, then not even close.
Congrats, and hang on to that sucker! When they (rarely) do come up for sale, they sell in the $400 - $600 range.
I want an analogue, true bypass loop pedal that works like the Drive section on the Boss GT-10B - ie, every drive on that unit has a dry blend, and also a "sub" blend, so you can just dial in some of the lows from your dry signal. Ideally, you would have an adjustable crossover for that Sub control...and some sort of phase control to take care of that issue.
That function on the GT-10B was awesome, because it pretty much made every single drive sound useable on bass. How cool would it be for every single dirt pedal on the planet to now be perfectly useable on bass?
That function on the GT-10B was awesome, because it pretty much made every single drive sound useable on bass. How cool would it be for every single dirt pedal on the planet to now be perfectly useable on bass?
I am still pondering my original post and I think I have hit upon a solution: An octave FX loop. A standard FX loop like an LS2, but a +1 octave signal is sent to FX loop. The return is then blended back with the original signal. No need to re-engineer every modulation pedal when you can just stick it any old existing modulation in a loop.
After one of those "The Wife" pedals I would like a Drive pedal that has the amount of drive controlled by an expression pedal so that you can sweep in the drive from a clean sound to super saturated and then back again.
maybe I just need a pedal that would blend an FX loop into and out of a dry signal?
maybe I just need a pedal that would blend an FX loop into and out of a dry signal?
