What exactly is an envelope filter?

[Baseballfan1456]

And what does it do? Because I ekeep, hearing about them although I never really found out a lot about them...

[Alpha-Dave]

This might help, it's a demo video for the Elecro Harmonix bassballs.

[url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QpncRw7ridE"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QpncRw7ridE[/url]

[neilb]

My wife is an envelope filter in a sense....... I get the bills, she gets the rest.

[Hamster]

[quote name='neilb' post='51236' date='Aug 27 2007, 11:24 AM']My wife is an envelope filter in a sense....... I get the bills, she gets the rest.[/quote]

[paul, the]

I would love a description of the different effects and it would make a great sticky.

However, I'm currently poor enough as it is, so I'm probably better off not knowing.

That [url="http://www.basstasters.com/effects/Yamaha_Magicstomp_Bass.html"]Yamaha Magicstomp[/url] did sound very professional to me though.

[Alpha-Dave]

The first issue is that it would be a lot of work, and second describing sound is so subjective that it's really difficult to get the gist.

To quote someone from bassworld (BT68 I think) " ... trying to describe a sound in writing is like trying to describe a smell through the medium of dance ... ".

To be fair though, Andy at Monkey FX gives it a good go: [url="http://www.monkeyfx.co.uk/fxguide.html"]http://www.monkeyfx.co.uk/fxguide.html[/url]

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

[quote name='Alpha-Dave' post='51290' date='Aug 27 2007, 02:24 PM']The first issue is that it would be a lot of work, and second describing sound is so subjective that it's really difficult to get the gist.

To quote someone from bassworld (BT68 I think) " ... trying to describe a sound in writing is like trying to describe a smell through the medium of dance ... ".

To be fair though, Andy at Monkey FX gives it a good go: [url="http://www.monkeyfx.co.uk/fxguide.html"]http://www.monkeyfx.co.uk/fxguide.html[/url][/quote]

That's an excellent description.
Now I'm off to buy myself a wah pedal and a well trained monkey...