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Slow Gear / autoswell recommendations?

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 8:51 am
by niftyprose
Hi chaps, back to the straightahead gear-type postings.

Looking for an automatic volume pedal. Obvious reference point is the Boss Slow Gear but AFAIK it isn't quite what I want. My ideal pedal would do multiple envelopes, so that if I hit a slow arpeggio each of the constituent notes swells in one-by-one.

I only need two or three notes to do this but the Boss is limited to one. I've heard of a couple of pedals that supposedly offer this but hands-on is better than makers' spiels...

Best, NP

Re: Slow Gear / autoswell recommendations?

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 9:03 am
by chromandre
I think the new ehx attack decay does that, I have no idea how that is possible but its in the sound demos

Re: Slow Gear / autoswell recommendations?

Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2019 4:59 pm
by duffmcshark
That’s what the poly mode on the EHX Attack Decay does.

Re: Slow Gear / autoswell recommendations?

Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2019 9:37 am
by niftyprose
Thanks for the replies, guys. On paper the EXH box does just what I wanted. I turned up this excellent real-world demo on YouTube by one Elliot Knapp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AVsNrWVT84

But Elliot likes the pedal more than I do. My planned application would really show up the glitchiness: I think I'd be better off with a pad reverb and a swell pedal. That said, the glitching Elliot highlighted sounded like it could be pretty interesting in the right hands.

Best, NP

Re: Slow Gear / autoswell recommendations?

Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2019 11:40 am
by digi2t
Sonuus Voluum.