BASS PEDALS – The Ultimate ENVELOPE FILTER Battle
Testing 12 Bass Envelope Filter Pedals across the categories of Responsiveness, Varied Sustain, Articulateness, and Chords!
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Originally posted by UCFKSqUGO7a2cucPpQ11ZWNQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD4VKw0Ztfk
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THOMANN: https://redir.love/thocf/8f8b9n860f
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Nate, first of all it's hard to find the words to give regards to your amazing playing technique. Sky is the limit, but for me it looks you're beyond it! Regarding envelope filters, each of them has their own character and it's very subjective, but as far as I could tell from your samples, my overall pick would be EHX Qtron+ and Dreadbox Kinematic… Thanks for this video!
EMMA Discumbobulator… one of the best , IMO ????
dude you are one HECK of a bass player. those examples were no joke. insane skills, insane groove feel. cheers
Good grief, that's some awesome playing there! Really useful to demonstrate pedals like this!
I still have the Q-Tron myself (which is pretty similar to the original Mu-Tron III, which I sold a long time ago for a pretty penny). It has that classic sound and keeps the low-end pretty well intact, unlike some of the other options.
However my favorite envelope pedal was my old modded DOD Envelope Filter. It's not the same model as the DOD shown here, and I had it modded to add a crossover filter (it mixed together a low-passed version of the input signal with a high-passed version of the effect). The reason I liked it so much is that the filter resonance in the DOD can be set to sound incredibly aggressive, and it reacts really well to your playing. And the mod I had done fixed the issue where the original would just lose all low end when you're playing it hard, and it fixed the issue where the low-end could really get out of control when the filter resonance was at a very low frequency.
Sadly it was stolen at a gig 🙁
Man i could listen to this man funk all friggin day
Very cool, it would be interesting to have an original mutron in the mix to here where it all started. and maybe something from 3leaf, his envelopes are generally considered some of the best today, but $$$
Akai deep impact reigns supreme
DOD 440 all day for almost all applications..can't mess with the oldest.
12:00 how you pull this line off so effortlessly is quite inspiring to me. That's a slick bassline.
I like the Supa Funk most. Has anyone got one?
Overall the EBS sounded the best to me. The MXR and Way Huge were great too. The Spectrum was the fastest at catching all the notes in the Articulation round. Wish you showed the extra weird sample/hold sequencey sounds the Spatial Delivery also does.
The very first pedal I ever purchased was an envelope filter, a Mu-Tron III with power supply, in 1977. This is the sound I have in my head. I'd still have it today if my guitarist hadn't split town with it. I haven't had an envelope filter since but this video has reawakened my desire for one. Based solely on this video, my consistent favorite was the EHX Q-Tron+. Given its size and that it requires 24v, it's not one to make my short list though the Nano might. I also really liked the Source Audio Spectrum though I'd prefer not needing a computer to get optimum use from it. The one that surprised me most was the Keeley Neutrino. I thought it was terrific in each style. I'm a bit taken aback by the TalkBass opinions of it and wonder if there's any merit to them. The EBS BassIQ is very impressive. I understand why people like the MXR but I prefer having a low pass setting. Hearing it with more clean mixed in might change my mind. I've narrowed my choice to 4 pedals: Keeley Neutrino / Source Audio Spectrum / EBS BassIQ / Mu-Tron Microtron IV
Man I really need to dig my old bass out of the cupboard. It's been 10 years and I stopped playing when I did the family thing. I have an old Dod envelope filter from the late 90s, ohh and an old zoom multi effect doo dah. Thanks for the vid!
Mxr and dreadbox kill the game. The EBS is subtile.
I listened to this comparison with good headphones and it came as surprise how different kinds of algorithms there were to compare. Even though being envelope filters, I still prefer gadgets that let the whole frequency spectrum come through. I mean, bass still has got to sound bass instrument, right?
To me EH Qtron and Keeley had the best sound hifi wise. They "spoil" the original signal the least. Supa and Dreadbox with their extreme effect were a bit tricky to compare on the other hand.
I was slightly dissapointed with the sound of MXR, Boss, Death by Audio, and also Ebs that I own myself. Naturally, different settings can make me change the verdict considerably ????
mxr and dreadbox
Spectrum>DOD>Qtron
I would love to see this same thing with compressor pedals.
Anything under $300?
I have been listening to this everyday. It's like my favorite video. And I personally like the Q-Tron plus best.
The env filter on the Meris Enzo is the one for me, sounds especially good live, really clear and articulate