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Envelope Filter Pedals

FTelettronica Envelope Follower/Triggered Filter

The FTelettronica Envelope Follower/Triggered Filter is a faithful, affordable, made in Italy recreation of the Lovetone Meatball, a beast of a filter pedal selling for well over $1,500. It only costs $310. In a few words, this is the ultimate auto-wah/envelope filter pedal, have a listen to it in the…Click on the title for more

FTelettronica Envelope Follower/Triggered Filter

GFI System Synesthesia Dual-Engine Modulator

These days, dual-engine pedals seem to be the way forward in a scene constantly striving to devise effects that offer new textures and unheard sonic combinations. Indonesian builder GFI System is, with a few other companies, ahead of the game in the digital effects' engineering field, and their new stompbox…Click on the title for more

GFI System Synesthesia Dual-Engine Modulator

New Pedal: Rainger FX DFST-1 Stealth Distortion/Fuzz

Among all pedal builders out there, London's Rainger FX stands out as a true experimenter: you won't find a "normal" effect in the company's roster, and, in most cases, the "abnormality" of its devices is immediately evident from the shape of the cases that host them, like for the new,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Rainger FX DFST-1 Stealth Distortion/Fuzz

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Nano Q-Tron Envelope Filter

NYC's Electro-Harmonix continues the process of miniaturization of its classic pedals with the Nano Q-Tron, a compact version of the Micro version, which was already considerably smaller than the "Mini" one, not to mention the original, a larger than life beast. For the unaware, Q-Tron is the company's flagship envelope…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: Electro-Harmonix Nano Q-Tron Envelope Filter

GFI System Rossie Multi Filter

Indonesian pedal builder GFI System specializes in digital multi-mode pedals, but their newest release tackles a type of effect that more than any other hangs on to its analog origins: filter. Enter the Rossie Filter, a digital, dynamic multi-filter pedal. The Rossie's circuit offers three modes: Envelope Filter - a…Click on the title for more

GFI System Rossie Multi Filter

Meris Enzo Synth Pedal

Born from a rib of Strymon, LA pedal manufacturer Meris has been getting a lot of traction in the last year or so with imaginative stompbox designs (we wrote a profile about them here), and we are thrilled to find out that they have launched a brand new pedal called Enzo.…Click on the title for more

Meris Enzo Synth Pedal

New Pedal: All-Pedal Macrodose Envelope Filter

Looking like a cover of a collaborative album from the late '60s by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Funkadelic, and Jimi Hendrix, the All-Pedal Macrodose is a striking attempt at delivering the ultimate envelope filter pedal. This device can produce auto-wah with selectable waveforms, sample/hold functions, step filter, random sample/hold,…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: All-Pedal Macrodose Envelope Filter

New Pedal: SolidGoldFX Supa Funk Envelope Bi-Filter

Montreal is not known for producing great funk bands, but it may be known for producing great funk pedals, since its most prominent stompbox builder SolidGoldFx just unveiled a device that facilitates the creation of funk guitar tones, appropriately called Supa Funk. A fully analog, dual, automatic Envelope Filter (or…Click on the title for more

New Pedal: SolidGoldFX Supa Funk Envelope Bi-Filter

Carl Martin Ottawa Optical Envelope Filter

Denmark's veteran boutique pedal builder Carl Martin released Ottawa, a 3-mode envelop filter powered by an optical circuit. A redesign of the company's previous auto-wah, the Ottawa offers deep control over the filters affected frequencies not only through the three-way filter toggle (High-Pass, By-Pass and Low Pass), but also through…Click on the title for more

Carl Martin Ottawa Optical Envelope Filter

Spaceman Effects Artemis Modulated Filter

Portland's Spaceman Effects just came out with a new filter pedal that will catch the interest of the synthesis and psych-inclined guitarists out there: the Artemis. Featuring a 2-pole state-variable design, which allows to mix, at once, high-pass, band-pass, and low-pass filters, the Artemis can deliver both envelope or LFO…Click on the title for more

Spaceman Effects Artemis Modulated Filter

Awol Flow Autowah

We have all grown to love (or at least like) mini pedals for an effect or another on our board, but one of the format's obvious limitations isthat it doesn't give builders much space to be imaginative... Awol Pedals is a Nashville, TN based company that has embraced the format's…Click on the title for more

Awol Flow Autowah

Dreadbox Kinematic Envelope Filter + Overdrive

Those of you looking for an envelop filter pedal with some serious filter may want to check out the new KINEMATIC by Greece's Dreadbox, a company with an extensive and very successful background in desktop synthesizers. The Dreadbox Kinematic is actually a lot more than that, featuring a two-mode circuit…Click on the title for more

Dreadbox Kinematic Envelope Filter + Overdrive