I couldn’t take it anymore. I decided today to order an MF-101 even though I have a Frostwave Resonator that I love with my Voyager. My plan is to use the MF-101 on my bass after sending it through the FreqBox.
For what it’s worth…I got my FreqBox from Humbucker Music a bit ago and was really happy with their customer service. Free shipping. Inexpensive. Friendly phone conversation during the order. The thing that pushed me over the edge today was all that plus they had the MF-101 for $265 with no tax, free shipping and a free EP-2 pedal! The web site has EP-1 listed but the guy told me that the thing was I would be getting an EP-2 instead! How cool is that?
analoghaze - I’ll let you know how I think they compare. Effectswise right now I have the Moogerfoogers listed below plus the Frostwave Resonator, Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man, Electro Harmonix Small Stone Phaser, and a ZVex Fuzz Factory. I also have a cruddy Behringer reverb pedal that I use on a Nord Electro but that doesn’t count
latigid on - I’m starting to agree.
electrical_engineer_gEEk - Frostwave can be had for $275 from Big City Music which is where I picked up mine from awhile back. It’s a really great filter. Adds a certain something to the Voyager. Just sounds great. http://www.bigcitymusic.com/product.asp?cat=new&pid=1000108
Funny story - the other day when I started alluding to the fact that I needed to make a purchase (I like to get buy in!) my wife made the off-the-cuff remark “What do you need a new filter or something?” I quickly responded with a joking “Shut up!”
I don’t know from filters, in the sense of using filters together. They get in the way of each other and the sound becomes more chaotic then I was looking for.
Admittedly had them fitted together wrong, the few times trying that out. The murf has a quality I readily enjoy, since sometimes I get the impression sparks are flying from fitting murf with the voyager.
From what I understand filters are basic to much circuitry, as in a delay, so I have not tempered my opinion with knowledge. Still not speaking from experience, since I haven’t put in the time, I’d likely see the benefits as more of an effect on an unfiltered instrument.
Just playing advocate for someone who’d like to speak up on the use filters in line with each other. Aside from the technical definition of filters, maybe the intended use is filtering a sound in need of it.
Going back to the old Moog analogy: a filter is like a windowshade: The more you lower it, the less light gets passed through it. Here, lowering the shade represents lowering the cutoff frequency, which lets less high frequency sounds through.
So, using two filters in series is perhaps not the best application, as the second will have less to “work with”.
I own many filters not to use them all at once, but because each has a certain character and functionality. For example, the Shermans produce beautiful distortion and have lots of functionality viz. their patch ins and outs. The Akai MFC-42, however, is much more clean and soft, offers stereo filtering, 2, 4 or 8 pole etc.. It has a tap-tempo or MIDI synced LFO, which can be routed to cutoff or resonance.
I own the ELectro Harmonix Bass Balls (twin dynamic filter) and its okay for what it does. I wish that i had more control over it though. Sometimes I just get bored with it, but it will do sweet things to my theremin though.
Now I don’t think there can bee too many filters as long as you have enough envelope generators and enough oscillators. Then you need some Ring modulation and some delay and…oh jeez I just lost another loan to ditech.
