Super Fatman Envelope Filter

The new Super FatMan is the evolution of the FatMan envelope filter with the features that filter geeks want most. This is the end all envelope filter pedal.

Features:

• Fat & Warm Pure Analog Circuitry
• 12 Filter Frequency Ranges
• Tweakable Filter Feedback
• LP/BP/HP Filter Modes
• Reverse Sweep
• Tweakable Attack Speed
• .07 to 8 Hz Tri/Square LFO
• CV/Expression Pedal Input
• CV/LFO blendable with envelope
• RGB LED shows ENV and LFO
• Wet/Dry blend in or out of phase
• Epoxy paint base and silkscreen
• Standard 9V Power Jack

The Controls. The FatMan's controls are intuitive and effective in sculpting incredible filter sounds.

Attack - Adjusts the speed of the filter, and how fast it responds to transients in your playing. Fully slow opens the filter like a nice sweep on the wah pedal. Fully fast will open and close the filter nearly instantly making the attack of each note very pronounced. Fast attack will also move the filter around during note bending and the beating of slightly out of tune notes for spaceshippy sounds.

Threshold - Adjusts the volume sensitivity of the filter. Turning it up causes the filter to begin working sooner and at lower levels. This sets the depth that the envelope reaches and how quickly it starts to decay.

Sweep Up/Down Switch- Controls where the filter starts and moves to. When in "up" mode, the filter starts at the lowest frequency and as volume increases, the frequency moves up. When in "down" mode, the filter is at its max frequency for the range and moves downward as the volume increases. Down acts as a tone compressor.

LFO Speed - Controls the speed of the Low Frequency Oscillator, from about .07 Hz (about 14 seconds) to 8Hz. Slower settings produce killer synthy filter sweeps, faster settings give you tremolo or vibrato like sounds.

LFO Depth - Attenuates the LFO signal to control how subtle or pronounced you want the LFO to work on the filter.

LFO Shape Switch - The LFO will run in Triangle Mode, (always smooth up and down) or Square Mode (full up or full down with no inbetween). Triangle is great for sweeps and more subtle sounds. Square is great when the Depth is turned down and blended with the envelope to produce delay like stuttering in longer notes. To turn the LFO off, put the switch in the middle position (useful when using an expression pedal).

Source - This controls how much of the envelope follower is blended with the CV/Expression Pedal input or the LFO. Some very nice sounds come from the careful setting of this control.

Range - This rotary switch selects between 12 distinct frequency ranges, controlling the frequency of the filter. The lowest setting goes down to 20Hz and provides movement in the sub-bass frequencies. The highest range tops out at 7kHz. Each range has its own sound and response characteristics.

Feedback - This controls how much of the filter is heard at the output. Higher settings produce a sharper resonant peak while lower settings flatten the filter out and make it far more subtle.

Filter Mode: LP/BP/HP Switch - This switch selects between the different filter modes. Low Pass mode cuts frequencies above the filter point, producing classic filter tones. Band Pass is more like a traditional wah pedal outputting only the frequencies directly around the filter point. High Pass cuts all frequencies lower than the filter point and creates some very nice tones without any bass.

Blend: wet/dry - this blends your dry signal in with the filtered signal. It can help retain your original tone and add just a little filter, or get just the filtered tone. Use in junction with the Filter Phase switch for increased tonal possibility.

Filter Phase Switch - This flips the phase of the filtered signal for the blend control. Having an in phase signal adds the frequencies together producing more bass and a more subtle sound. Out of phase subtracts the frequencies from eachother and produces sharper sounds.

Bypass - The stomp switch is wired true bypass so only wires touch your tone when the Super FatMan is disabled.

Internal Gain - There are two trim pots inside the pedal that control the gain of the wet and dry signals before they are blended. They will be set to unity from the factory, but can be changed if desired.

RGB LED - The indicator LED on the Super FatMan is now a multi color (red/green/blue) type that has allowed us to provide visual feedback on how the pedal is working. The LED will light up Blue when the Super FatMan is engaged. The RED part will show the speed and mode of the LFO. The GREEN part will show what the filter is doing (envelope, and LFO). Besides being a cool looking flurry of colors, the LED will help you set the controls to get the sound you want faster.

CV Input - This jack allows you to use a standard expression pedal (stereo plug) to control the filter position, or blend it with the envelope and LFO. It provides power to the expression pedal. This can also be used with 0-5 volt CV sources. For +-2.5 volt (moogerfooger and modular gear) CV, a special adapter is required to convert the voltage levels, available from WMD for $30.

Construction. The Super FatMan is made from milled die-cast aluminum and then painted purple and silkscreened red with two part epoxy paints. This makes the Super FatMan easily stand up to the rigors of the road.

The Super FatMan uses high quality components everywhere, including the newest surface mount technologies which reduce noise and interference.

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Musictoyz.com Price $279.00

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Geiger Counter Digital Destruction

The WMD Geiger Counter is hundreds of entirely new face melting sounds. A high gain modern preamp drives an 8 bit computer, creating sounds which range from nice (tubey overdrive, lofi aliasing, hot gated leads) to total madness (impossible amounts of gain, multiple octave foldover, harsh digital data errors, and piercing sculpted noise). This is NOT a modeling pedal, it turns the fundamentals of digital into a source of extreme distortion.

Features:

• High Gain Modern Preamp
• Dramatic Tone Control with Disable
• Sample Rate from 260Hz to 58kHz
• 1 to 8 Bit Depth with Mask mode
• 252 Wave Table Modulator
• CV In for Expressive Control
• Always saves settings
• Hand Wired True Bypass
• Top Quality Components
• Super Hard Epoxy Powder Finish
• Standard 9V Power Jack
• 4.5" x 3.5" Small Footprint

The Controls. The Geiger Counter may seem overwhelming, but once broken down, the controls are quite logical.

Gain. Low settings provide clean tones with no distortion at all, while high settings will brickwall your signal for great sustain. Use the Gain control as a coarse setting for getting the desired tone from the selected wave table.

Tone. The Geiger Counter's tone control blends muffled low-mids with chimey and clear upper mids and highs providing a very large range of sounds in junction with the Gain. All the way down and the sound is muffled and grungy with little upper harmonic content. The middle range is smooth and full bodied. The top range cuts the lows completely for only upper harmonic content. Use the Tone to fine tune the sound of the wave table.

Tone Enable/Disable. This switch removes the tone control from the preamp circuit. The tone control sucks some volume from the gain, and this allows the pure ultra hot signal to go directly into the Wave Table. If a very clean tone is desired, set to Disable and adjust the gain to get the right amount of breakup. For most wave tables, disabling the Tone will produce completely different sounds by brickwalling to the extremes of the tables faster.

Sample Rate. Controls the length of the samples your signal is converted into. Full up and the Geiger Counter samples faster than a CD. Dial it down a little and you'll lower the fidelity and frequency response, adding overtones and difference frequencies. Down a little produces some very nice chimey clean tones. Down more and higher notes disappear into difference frequencies, all the way down to 280Hz. The sample rate is sort of like a flange whammy.

The LED by the Sample Rate knob shows the key input and coarse/fine modes. When green, the Key input is active. When red, the sample rate is changed in smaller increments (fine mode), allowing for smoother adjustment for the high range of sample rates. The LED is yellow if the key input and fine mode are both active. Push the Wave Table knob to change the modes of the Bit Depth and Sample Rate LEDs.

Bit Depth. This controls the finer details of the signal. All up and your signal is represented by the full 8 bits. Each step down cuts the resolution in half, adding quantization error distortion, all the way down to 1 bit making a nasty square wave from a once clean tone. This produces a lo-fi gated distortion sound.

The LED by the Bit Depth knob shows the key input and post/pre wave table modes. When green, the key input is active. The Bit Depth function is available before (LED red) or after (LED off) the wave table algorythms for different sounds. Use the bit depth before wave table mode to change the response of the wave table. The LED is yellow if the key input and pre wave table modes are both active.

Bits/Mask. This switch controls how the Bit Depth knob works. In Bits mode, the Bit Depth knob reduces the resolution of the signal. In Mask mode, the signal is filtered through a number (0 to 255). This mode can be used to reduce noise and add gain. In pre wave table mode, it can turn off small ranges of the wave table, creating altered harmonic content from the tables. Adjust the knob to taste when in Mask mode.

Wave Table. This knob and display select the wave table to run your signal through. The wave table stage takes your signal and destroys it with math. This produces some incredible sounds. The wave tables are organized so that a more extreme version is typically found one up from the current one. There are 252 wave tables in all, each with different harmonic content.

The display is in HEX, displaying the numbers 0-9 and the letters A-F. Don't be alarmed, it actually makes remembering your desired wave table easier! The wave table is remembered when the pedal is turned off.

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Musictoyz.com Price $299.00

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Fatman Envelope Filter

The WMD FatMan is a funky envelope filter providing massive tweakability. The FatMan produces a vast range of filter sounds with intuitive, wide range controls. The FatMan is an incredibly powerful device with the quality expected in a boutique pedal, plus some original features for players on the cutting edge of musical innovation.

Features:

• Fat & Warm Pure Analog Circuitry
• 12 Filter Frequency Ranges
• Tweakable Filter Feedback
• Lowpass & Bandpass Filter Mode
• Reverse Sweep
• Tweakable Attack Speed
• Internal Gain Adjustment
• Key Input
• Hand Wired True Bypass
• Violet LED
• Top Quality Components
• Super Hard Epoxy Powder Finish
• Standard 9V Power Jack

The Controls. The FatMan's controls are intuitive and effective in sculpting your desired filter sound.

Attack - Adjusts the speed of the filter, and how fast it responds to transients in your playing. Fully slow opens the filter like a nice sweep on the wah pedal. Fully fast will open and close the filter nearly instantly making the attack of each note very pronounced. Fast attack will also move the filter around during note bending and the beating of slightly out of tune notes.

Threshold - Adjusts the volume sensitivity of the filter. Turning it up causes the filter to begin working sooner, or at lower levels. Adjusting this lets you control the frequency that the filter opens up to in a given range.

Feedback - Controls how much you hear the filter working. Turning it up adds more of the frequency the filter is moving at to the sound. All the way down and the Fat Man subtly removes frequencies like a moving passive filter. Turn it up and the filter becomes more audible. Dime it and you'll be able to make it quack and thump depending on where the range is set.

Range - Selects between 12 distinct frequency ranges, controling the tone of the filter. The lowest setting goes down to 20Hz and provides movement in the sub-bass frequencies. The highest range tops out at 7kHz. Each range has its own sound and response characteristics.

Sweep Up/Down - Controls where the filter starts and moves to. When in "up" mode, the filter startes at the lowest frequency and as volume increases, the frequency moves up. When in "down" mode, the filter is at its max frequency for the range and moves downward as the volume increases. Down acts as a tone compressor.

Lowpass/Bandpass - Changes the way the filter affects low frequencies. Lowpass mode is more subtle affecting only the highs in the signal. Bandpass mode sounds more like a wah pedal, allowing only a narrow band of sound through. Bandpass mode has much more feedback and a very strong sound.

Bypass - The stomp switch enables and disables the Fat Man. When bypassed, the Fat Man will not touch your tone. True bypass wiring means that your signal goes in and right out instead of being degraded by unnecessary electronics. Good stuff.

Internal Gain - This control lets you set the output volume of the Fat Man. The Fat Man can put out a lot of level, so turning this down will clean up the signal for the device following the Fat Man. Turning it up will add some extra juice for driving quiet devices. This control doesn't affect the Fat Man when bypassed. Use this if you need the FatMan louder or softer than the input signal.

Key Input. The key input lets an external source control the filter. For example, you plug a drum machine into the key in it automates the wah FatMan. Or, hook a mic to the Key In and put it in your drummer's kick drum and plug the bass into the main in; the kick and bass work together to create a new sound. The Fat Man's versatility is intended to spark your creativity. There are literally hundreds of things that can be pluged into the key in to create new and interesting sounds.

Getting the most out of the key input requires proper setting of the Attack and Threshold controls. If the attack is too slow, the filter won't move around much. Set the threshold to get the desired amount of movement.

Construction. The Fat Man is made from milled die-cast aluminum and then powder coated purple and lettered with bright red epoxy paint. This makes the Fat Man easily stand up to the rigors of the road. Plus, a voilet LED tells you when the Fat Man is engaged.

Only the highest quality components are used in the electronics, simply because the sound better. Less noise and distortion are the goal. Each pedal is extensively tested for low noise and sound quality.

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Musictoyz.com Price $250.00