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Envelope Filter Users, which one do you play with?

#62
Used to have an EHX Mini Q-Tron. Liked it on a couple settings, but just couldn't dial down the quack enough for what I wanted to use it for. Currently using a bass-modded BYOC 440 as my filter. Still too peaky, so I'm probably gonna end up trying to mod it to round it out.
 
#63
JohnDavisNYC said:
Jimmy, the SYB3 is actually supprisingly good when NOT using the 'synth' part... I used to really like the filter and the wave shaping distortion settings on that thing.

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ok like i said, i had recently sourced an SYB-3 just to use the Wah settings, its a really great filter imo! i think its anolog as well becuase the actual whole pedal is analog.
It also has a volume levels of both wah and direct sounds so you can
get back your bass (although i use it on 100% wah and 0% direct for that old school funky sound)
I've retired the Maxon AF-9 now, the Boss at gigs and in the mix just seems to really workout.
 
#65
My guitarist had expressed a lot of interest in my Micro Q-Tron so I figured I'd test out the EBS what with my limited board space. WOW. Everything is different now. This thing is incredible.
 
#67
Good filter UNDER $100:

- DOD FX25

Moogs, Mu-trons, etc are all great but the OP had a price limit.

My favorite way to shop for these is by using Discofreq's eBay searches (at the bottom of the page) eg:

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#70
How does the bassballs play with octavers and fuzzes in front of it? The EBS is really blowing my mind right now but it would be really cool to have a second filter that sounded completely different. Couldn't take up much board space though.
 
#71
jufros said:
How does the bassballs play with octavers and fuzzes in front of it? The EBS is really blowing my mind right now but it would be really cool to have a second filter that sounded completely different. Couldn't take up much board space though.
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Octavers: Fine, but very low notes can sound choppy.

Fuzzes: Depends how much gain. Mine works pretty well with the dirt slider of a BMS infront of it, but my Woolly Mammoth leaves it with no envelope at all to quack with, so it makes shocking noises.

To be fair the Woolly Mammoth would do that to any envelope-following effect.
 
#73
jufros said:
Ok cool. Safe to say that it's a poor second option for an individual synth component filter?
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It doesn't sound like a low-pass filter, it sounds like a formant filter, so yeah I'd say it's inappropriate for that kind of usage. The Bassballs is more of a "colour" effect IMO. With a bit of dirt infront of it to bring out the detail in what it does, it sounds great, but it's not a low-pass filter.

Really for an application like that you'd want to be looking at filters with their own effects loop or an envelope in socket (Agent 00Funk, Q-Tron+, a Meatball clone, etc.) - the loop offers a solution to the gain pedal problem.
 
#74
Yeah that's what I figured. Unfortunately, I wouldn't have space for any of those with my current setup. I could squeeze an FX25 or Mojo Hand Red 442 on there but don't know how much different they'd be than the EBS.
 
#75
To be honest of those compact filters I'd expect the EBS to be pretty well-suited in terms of the sound. Try turning down the gain a bit until you get enough of your quack back. If it sounds too weedy, then maybe you need to look at a filter with more features.
 
#76
To clarify, I think the EBS is the best thing since sliced bread. I was just wondering if, given my size constraints, I could expand my synth tone palette with a second small filter. It would replace my PH-3 that I'm getting some cool arpeggiated synth synth sweeps with but I'm always scheming my next move.
 

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