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Hello ILF'ers. I have a question once again. I have been lately seriously considering trading my Cosmichorus for a good Envelope Filter. Not because I need it for any particular reason, but because I like them and miss my Agent 00 Funk. But I love the Cosmichorus too. The Only reason I'd trade it is because the other pedals are ones that are not going to leave me ever! Or for a very, very long time. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...I need someone to talk me out of it for one. For 2! Show me where to buy a cheap and good envelope filter. I don't have the money right now to spend 250 on the one I want. Damn Iron Ether has to cost so much and be soo sexy and good sounding! I don't care if it's fancy or what the brand is. Just something that sounds decent enough until I have the extra dough to buy a good one.

Suggest away bros!!!!

I have a Boss FT-2 Dynamic Filter (MIJ) that I'm thinking of letting go. They don't make them any more but it was a staple for me for a long time. PM if you're interested.

Honestly, I really liked the MXR when I got to play around with it. You can find those used for around 100. Has a really cool vocal quality to it.

I think you can get those Qtron+ XO units for decent used prices - I liked mine, other than the slight spike in volume.

Digitech synth wah can be had on the cheaps...

I've got fancy stuff like the prometheus and photron filter but I still use the synth wah from time to time.

It's cheap and designed for bass, but works with guitar: the EHX Bassballs. Find one used somewhere. It's a one trick pony, but it does its trick well. Lately I've been using mine in a noise rig after a contact mic to take very short, high frequency noises (contact mic being dragged across various textured surfaces) and round it out + add some decay to the notes. Sounds awesome in distortion mode. Dragging the contact mic over something with a lot of texture like a piece of screen door goes ba-wah-boh-ba-wah-boh very nicely

If you can score a used Moog Low Pass Filter for under $200 that is pound for pound the best value in the market in my opinion. Extra awesome if you're a synth jockey with other CV stuff to rock it with (you can make it self oscillate and then pitch it with other CV devices to have basically a simple VCO in a box to augment your other keys, etc.) Here's some clips of one of my buds playing some harp through an MF-101 and an MF-102:

http://kosta.posterous.com/harmonica-x-moogerfoogers

The enveloping on the MF-101 is bangin!

The old DOD FX25 is pretty cheap and pretty good.
Q-Tron is great, and cheap too.

bigchiefbc wrote:Honestly, I really liked the MXR when I got to play around with it. You can find those used for around 100. Has a really cool vocal quality to it.

+1 on that. I was there when BigChief tried that one, and I got to play with it too. It didn't have a lot of quack, more like an organic / syrupy thing. Although it seemed flexible enough that if you're a quackin'-filter kind of guy, you could probably get that. It was the first envelope filter that I've played that I actually dug.

I personally use my EHX Micro Bass Synthesizer as an envelope filter at the moment, not the most cheap pedal, but it can do other awesome stuff

I still wanna try a DOD FX25B. It'd probably replace my Bassballs, because it turns out I can't rock the wah at all with my foot while I'm playing, so I might as well let a pedal do it for me..

why no micro q-tron?

just avoid EHX Dr.Q nano, please... bassballs should be better - don't know, didn't have the balls to try it

those DODs should be awesome, i remember the FX25b (i thonk) from Cog's records and that quack was pretty nice

by a complete chance i just got a Pigtronix EP-1, i can't wait for it to arrive... it's supposed to be really good and i got it for a good price, too (150 int. shipped, thanks, bronze talon!)... i want to use envelope filter more, because our band is funk-influenced and sometimes it just needs some moist quackin'... the stereo Polyphase i had was cool, but not very practical to use live - but i have to say the envelope part was really good and if it's loosely based on Qtron units, i'd hit something Qtron-ish - the cheapest is the micro q-tron but again - i haven't tried it

boss t wah?

I like the MXR filter myself. It can cover a lot of that BassBalls territory (and I use it a lot for that, for some dirty filtery rock stuff) but also go into more traditional filter area.

I also have a 3 leaf Proton that I'm using a lot for more traditional filtery goodness. It doesn't get as "wet" as many people are hoping, but the entire pedal is giggable (and I've used it a lot in the past six months) whereas some filters have that "it sounds good but I can't use that live" area.

MXR Bass Auto Q?