Envelope Filter 2019

[FilterFunk]

I thought I'd ask this here instead of starting a new thread - do any of you have a Pigtronix Resotron, and if so, how do you feel about the envelope filter on it? I like what I've heard in demos (sounds like it's got some analog grit to it; most modern envelope filters don't have that), even though I don't need the synthy pitch-tracking part of the pedal. Some of the used prices aren't bad.

 

[Gregory H]

I thought I'd ask this here instead of starting a new thread - do any of you have a Pigtronix Resotron, and if so, how do you feel about the envelope filter on it? I like what I've heard in demos (sounds like it's got some analog grit to it; most modern envelope filters don't have that), even though I don't need the synthy pitch-tracking part of the pedal. Some of the used prices aren't bad.

I picked up a Resotron a month or so ago when it came up for 50% off on musicians friend. I don't know if I got a defective pedal or not, but I couldn't tame the hiss. Even with no instrument plugged in, and with several different patch cables, as soon as I turned it on i was hearing a crazy hiss. It made some neat sounds under the hiss, but i couldn't live with it.

 

[OhulahanBass]

I picked up a Resotron a month or so ago when it came up for 50% off on musicians friend. I don't know if I got a defective pedal or not, but I couldn't tame the hiss. Even with no instrument plugged in, and with several different patch cables, as soon as I turned it on i was hearing a crazy hiss. It made some neat sounds under the hiss, but i couldn't live with it.

Unfortunately the Resotron is a dud for low notes on bass, especially active basses. When I contacted support Pigtronix told me you need a compressor in front for it to work with low E string on an active bass. So this expensivish 18V dynamic filter with a compressor built in needed to be placed after my compressor pedal which I used to attenuate and squash my signal killing some of the dynamics and messing up the gain of my signal chain.

I found one tasty setting in normal LPF mode with the blend (parallel compressor signal) off. It still crunched a little on low notes and required attenuation of my overall signal but it sounded great. Blend/compressor, other envelope modes were unusable on bass.

On guitar it might be the best sounding filter I have heard, it just wasn't designed for us unfortunately.

If you want to get rid of hiss I suggest turning off the blend/compressor signal.

 

[Gregory H]

Unfortunately the Resotron is a dud for low notes on bass, especially active basses. When I contacted support Pigtronix told me you need a compressor in front for it to work with low E string on an active bass. So this expensivish 18V dynamic filter with a compressor built in needed to be placed after my compressor pedal which I used to attenuate and squash my signal killing some of the dynamics and messing up the gain of my signal chain.

I found one tasty setting in normal LPF mode with the blend (parallel compressor signal) off. It still crunched a little on low notes and required attenuation of my overall signal but it sounded great. Blend/compressor, other envelope modes were unusable on bass.

On guitar it might be the best sounding filter I have heard, it just wasn't designed for us unfortunately.

If you want to get rid of hiss I suggest turning off the blend/compressor signal.

Too late! I took the heavy-handed route of getting rid of the hiss by returning the pedal. I still think I got a dud though - the hiss was present always, whether there was an instrument plugged in or not.