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EBS BassIQ Blue Label Triple Envelope Filter Pedal
The EBS BassIQ produces sounds ranging from classic auto-wah effects to spaced-out "Funkadelic" and synth-bass sounds. It is for everyone looking for a fun, fat-sounding, and responsive envelope filter that reacts to how you play in a musical way.
Fat envelope filter and sample-and-hold effects make the Spatial Delivery V3 a veritable factory of percolating, sweeping, yowling, and vowel-y freak-out sounds.
Huge range of traditional to blown-out envelope and sample-and-hold effects. Easy-to-program presets are invaluable.
It would be cool if you could scroll through presets with the footswitch.
$199
EarthQuaker Spatial Delivery V3
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There are pedals that can get you out of a rut and there are pedals that squeeze your noggin like Silly Putty across some alternate musical dimensions. The EarthQuaker Spatial Delivery V3 tends toward the latter category. On one hand, itās a cool-sounding envelope filter that can be used in most traditional applications of that effect (Jerry Garcia, Bootsy Collins, etc.). But it doesnāt take much prompting to go from sort-of-groovy to mind-melt. And in this version there are six presets which enable you to traverse its crazy-wide range of sounds by switching on the fly.
There is much room to roam here. Old-school filter and auto-wah sounds (the Edge on Achtung Baby) are easy to summon in the upward-sweep mode, with emphasis on the low-pass side of the filter, and range and resonance to taste. The downward-sweep mode highlights whistling, vowel-y tones and even weird variations of reverse-tape soundsāall of which can be mutated with range and filter controls to sound like AM radio artifacts and rusty space transmissions, or dynamic phase effects. Sample-and-hold mode, of course, harbors the most chaotic sounds, with which you can create rhythmic arpeggio patterns or fractured Morse code sweeps. If you want to be the weirdest person on the stage with the fewest pedals, the Spatial Delivery V3 could go a long way toward getting you there.
Phaser and envelope filter combine to make unconventional sounds that transcend both effects.
This pedal was designed to crank out an array of off-kilter sounds, twisting your riffs into crazy new forms. Bee stings, perfect for funky moods. Gloopy syrup to drench your low-string twanging. Fifty shades of rude behavior thatāll turn a pleasant cocktail party into a drunken brawl.
The Attack Vector Phaser & Envelopeās attitude is intended to work with electric bass as well as guitar. So if youāre looking for pedal that smiles politely and behaves appropriately, keep right on walking ā you wonāt find it here. But if you seek a kindred spirit and fellow troublemaker, the Way Huge Smalls Attack Vector Phaser & Envelope might just become your new best friend.