Try to think of an effect pedal that doesn't exist

[onyxrhino]

Boss Drone

[danceatron]

envelope delay

[broken_sound]

i feel like if someone put out a buckethead signature killswitch pedal, some idiot's would actually buy it.

[dkerwood]

I'd love to see an infinite sustainer. Play a note and it would sustain forever, even if you mute the guitar. Then set it up to stop playing the note when the next note is played.

[hot_karl]

i feel like if someone put out a buckethead signature killswitch pedal, some idiot's would actually buy it.

the diamond tremolo can be used as a killswitch... it's pretty cool

[hilikus8]

VALN

[PatrickF]

Affordable pitch-shifter/octaver pedal with footswitchable presets.

[paulz]

envelope delay

 

 

there are some rack units that let you assign envelope control to different parameters

[PatrickF]

crap, I came in here to post just that.

 

 

Vally or the other?

[broken_sound]

the diamond tremolo can be used as a killswitch... it's pretty cool

 

 

i'm talking a stand alone pedal that just cuts your signal, just like a tuner, but all it does is cut your signal for idiots that want to sound like buckethead.

[paulz]

I have this idea for a weird distortion/filter/whatever kind of thing - a digital pedal which first clips the signal, and the replaces the clipped part with a peak, and has several preset waveforms, etc. Don't have the slightest idea what it will sound like.

 

 

If you push it so that the entire wave is clipped, what you've got is a trigger signal and you basically have a wavetable synth.

 

the middle ground where it's not the whole wave..dunno

[dkerwood]

envelope delay

 

 

What exactly would this do?

[big_cat]

standalone freeze/gliss. always

[claytonjohn18]

klon

[hot_karl]

I would also like a whammy pedal that had grooves... like you could feel the expression pedal slide into a slot when it hits a solid harmony or note interval... that way you could accurately play different harmonies on the fly.

[Lou Speed]

A fuzz that does the overdriven console thing and nails the "Revolution" sound.

[Mr.Grumpy]

Too easy...

 

A distortion pedal that sounds like a tube amp.

[drstone]

ive been working on designs for a tube driven od/dist pedal with foot controlable gain. ie volume pedal only the movement controls the gain, with seperate controls on the side. Im going to be basing it on a tubefactor

[Dr. Goldenglove]

If you push it so that the entire wave is clipped, what you've got is a trigger signal and you basically have a wavetable synth. the middle ground where it's not the whole wave..dunno

 

Hey, thanks! Never heard of it, will look it up.

I might do some drawings in Paint or whatever and post 'em to show more clearly what I mean.

[paulz]

 

Hey, thanks! Never heard of it, will look it up. I might do some drawings in Paint or whatever and post 'em to show more clearly what I mean.

 

 

a wavetsable synth is just a TYPE of synth, not a branded product - instead of a trad oscillator that follows a charge/discharge cycle, waves are stored in a "lookup table" (a set of data that tells you what the next level should be -- so as you read down the list of levels across time -- you get the description of a wave)

 

for guitar, the easiest way o access these type of sounds these days would be with a pitch-to-midi convertor, either a hex unit or there are a couple of monophonic units out there now

[soulsonic]

 

i'm talking a stand alone pedal that just cuts your signal, just like a tuner, but all it does is cut your signal for idiots that want to sound like buckethead.

 

I totally built a momentary mute pedal like this a few years ago. I didn't build it to do the stupid Buckethead stuttering crap; I built it to so that I wouldn't need a noise gate to cut feedback during breaks in a song. We played really loud, so feedback was an issue most of the time. With some practice, I got really good with it to the point where I could mute stuff mid-riff and sound super tight with it.

 

 

Regarding something that probably doesn't exist but should, I would love to see a pedal version of the Plogue Rebuilder plugin. And expanded with more waveshaping function.

[Mr. Sarum]

A fuzz based off an old recording console input. That or a compressor based off an old 60's tube comp.

[Taylor.]

a delay that infinitely repeats a note then cuts that signal when the next note is played which could be used for sweet tremolo picking sounds at high frequencies

[Bricks & Bones]

I single bypass loop that only allows the effect that's in the loop into the signal path based on frequencies. In other words, the higher up the neck (or lower, depending on how it's set) the more apparent the effect

[danceatron]

What exactly would this do?

 

 

I remember hooking up the envelope out of the moog filter to the moog delay

and having lots of fun. If I remember right the best thing was having it on the shortest possible delay so the envelope of my playing was changing the pitch of the guitar. Play quietly and it sounds normal and then hit the strings hard and it sounds like going crazy on the whammy bar. Definitely extreme sounding in a lot of settings.