Toadworks Enveloope Dynamic Effect Loop Pedal
The Toadworks Enveloope is a dynamics based send/return loop. The harder you play, the more the send/return loop is inserted into the signal path. If you play softly, then the signal will travel through unaffected. There are Sensativity and Release controls to give you a wide range of control over signal mixing by the dynamics you play the guitar!
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A new spin on the true-bypass box, Enveloope employs a built in optical envelope follower. For the first time, you can now add attack-controlled depth capability to any non-dynamic effect in your arsenal. ToadWorks Enveloope is the only Vactrol-based, envelope follower controlled, 9V powered effect loop in the world. No fancy expression pedals, no AC power requirements - just throw it on the floor and groove on the smooth amplitude-controlled transition from dry, to wet, to dry again. Go from Mr. Clean to gooey flange distortion nightmare with nothing more than a slightly increased attack.
Enveloope has been tested and used with dozens of new & vintage effect units. Every combination of guitar and effect will have a slightly different response, and the sensitivity and operation will always vary to some degree, so expect the unexpected. This pedal quite literally adds a new dimension to even the most mundane or overused effect, and once you turn it on, you'll never want to turn it off.
Versatility
ToadWorks Enveloope is an effect loop, the same way that a Ferrari is a car: it fits the basic requirements, with a few extra hundred horsepower under the hood. Sure, it's a buffered effect loop... AND a dynamically controlled effect loop... AND it has a reversible direction control.... AND a trigger for external audio sources.... AND a compressor/limiter... it does everything but wash your dishes and make your bed.
Groovability
Sometimes, you feel funky... sometimes you don't... and sometimes you feel right in the middle. For those special, fleeting, in-between times, there is Enveloope. With Enveloope, you as an artist are no longer tied to the basic envelope-controlled filter effect. Maybe you want a fuzz face in there! Maybe you want a flanger... into a delay... into an overdrive.... and you want it dynamically controlled! Why shouldn't you have all that? The stompbox MAN has been keeping you down, and it's time you stood up for what was right. Besides, stomping on boxes to turn on an effect is sooo 2004.
Reliability
ToadWorks Enveloope is hand wired, by people, not machines. From our high quality 3PDT switches to the custom made machined aluminum knobs, every component is the finest available, making ToadWorks pedals the most well-built and reliable effect pedals in the world.
How Does the Enveloope Function?
The input is split into three signals:
Signal 1 is sent to an Envelope Follower that senses the dynamics of the incoming signal.
Signal 2 is sent to the output (almost) unaffected, but the level is controlled by the Envelope Follower, the harder you play, the softer the unaffected signal becomes. (It's a dynamics controlled bypass)
Signal 3 is sent to the send/return FX loop. The loop return level is controlled by the Envelope Follower, this time the harder you play, the LOUDER the loop signal becomes.
Also ..if you crank the Sensitivity all the way up, and turn the Release all the way down, it becomes a very effective noise gate.
Another cool feature – You could send a pre-recorded material directly into the RETURN, then use a guitar as a trigger to control the amount of RETURN signal in the output
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