Re: ADSR stomp box

[Rainer Straschill <moinsound@googlemail.com>]

So that's probably the "ultra-conservative guitarist" viewpoint you're 
mentioning here ;).
Basically, I understand that Rick wants something like the envelope mode 
in my trusted TC Triple-C, which is some huge fun on any kind of signal, 
including (but not limited to) percussive sounds (i.e. sound without a 
lot of "S").

However, as Rick asked for some kind of ADSR without a compressor, I 
believe there's a reason that both usually come together. To make that 
ADSR effect, you need next to the ADSR generator a VCA-kinda thing and a 
threshold/envelope detector - in short, functions which a compressor 
already has, so it's easy to make it also work as a compressor.

The aforementioned Triple-C, while not being a stompbox (as Rick asked), 
is, as I said, huge fun. In addition to the highly creative envelope 
mode, you can also run it as a fullrange compressor-limiter or multiband 
compressor-limiter combo. And you get a sidechain input (and this is 
where the ADSR function really starts to get fun).

          Rainer

Christophe schrieb:
> Probably because it doesn't really seem to make sense when applied to 
> a straight guitar signal. There's not a lot of "S" there and it's hard 
> to imagine how you'd implement the "R".  And then there's the problem 
> of how to interface it with whatever effect you'd want to control with 
> it, if any.  Possibly the ADSR could be done with some kind of 
> "enhanced Sustainiac" sort of thing, but a free standing stomp box 
> doesn't seem likely.


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