Hi, is there a pedal that I can get to have the envelope follower out of (for example) an MF-101 control the volume of a signal?
I play the bass and I would like to have an overdriven bass sound with the shorter decay of the non-overdriven notes.
You need a voltage controlled amplifier (VCA)
I know Radio Design Labs make one:
http://www.fullcompass.com/product/280074.html
Not exactly a pedal, but it might fit your needs.
Why not just put a volume pedal between your bass and your amp?
You can try playing with various noise gates or maybe set up a evelope controlled filter to be really transparent with a long attack and a quick decay to no sustain.
If Moog made a VCAfooger it would be really useful, or maybe incorporate some cv-ins on the CP-251 mixer.
Q118 from Synthesizers.com will do that. (I use one in my bass rig.) But you need a housing and power supply to use it.
Sounds like a gated fuzz like the Chunk Systems ‘Brown Dog’ is what you’re looking for. It has a wide gain range and can do lighter overdriven tones, while still having control over the gate which can be wide open or on so tight that you can even trigger.
I replied to your other post on this issue on talkbass.com last week-- here’s a copy of my response: (he was asking a few other things as well, so this message may seem a little out of context to those who didn’t read Nivlems thread on talkbass)
By the distortion route, a gated fuzz will get you the best squarewave, and will also choke the the notes off so there is little decay; with a strong gated pedal like the Brown Dog fuzz (circuit also found in the Octavius Squeezer) you can control the gate, and set it to the desired level of sustain vs squareness. If anything you’d have more of a problem with the sustain being too short rather than too long when in the most-squared settings the Brown Dog offers, though it can be balanced well ime- putting a strong sustaining compressor before it can help to shape it while still having as much or little sustain as you’d like. You’ll lose dynamics, but a little clean blend can possibly help mask that.
Envelope controlling volume; if you don’t need the squarewave anymore, then disregard the ‘Freqbox’ portion of this paragraph
The Moog-method would be a Freqbox set to square and fed into the Moog Ringmod; The Freqbox’s ‘Env Out’ is then patched into the Ringmod’s “Carrier In” effectively making it a crude VCA and the envelope will open and close it allowing the signal to pass in the same fashion that an envelope filter would, though the envelope is strictly modulating the volume, not a filter and no ring modulation occurring.The Ringmod may not be necessary though because the Freqbox will give you a true squarewave without the compression you experience with distortion (filters respond very well to its waveforms, though maybe still some compression happening) and without added sustain-- sustain is more likely to be shortened along the lines of an octaver. The playing range (without knob adjustments) is most limited in the squarewave setting due to the Hard Sync proccess, so you’d need to use an expression pedal to make slight adjustments to the Frequency paramenter if you’re playing notes around the neck; the other waveforms have more range and will allow about a scales worth of even-volume’d notes without adjustment, so you may find the Pulsewave setting to be the best compromise.
Other than that, I agree with Kevteop’s comments as well about the OS and sound-quality of the G5.