Filters

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I Own a Q-tron, a WMD Fatman, and a Boss SYB-3 bass synth, plus a Foxrox Octron, because I love getting synthy tones from my guitar, and have been trying for a while.  But there is always a downside for me with these effects - the bass synth tracks poorly.  The Fatman is great for 'up' and great with guitar, but for synth tones it doesn't resonate or sweep 'down' quite right.  The Q-tron would be a mainstay, but for it's huge volume jump, and it's huge size on the pedalboard. Now, I've always wanted a micro-synth, and thought that would be really close, but it's huge.  In the past I went for wanting to be able to seperate the parts (octaves, fuzz, filter, etc) rather than the all in one.

I've been tweaking the Shocktave a bit, using it as a purely octave down without any clean blend, upping the gain (which is actually a whole nother question) into the flip flop, and using a .02 cap to ground at the input to help it track better.  I love the sound. Feeding into my Q-tron set to LP, high resonance, sweeping down, with the gain set so the signal 'overloads' the filter, it gets the kind of sharp, synthy resonance I like, sounds good.

So now I'm going to work on a filter, with hopes to combined it with in one box.  In theory I'd love to strip the filter off the EH micro-synth and build that, but don't know if it's possible, or if I have the know-how, but it seems perfect.  Besides having a lot of resonance, to my ears, rather than an envelope-controlled filter, the filter has a slider control for setting the rate and sweep speed, which means it sweeps the same on every note, rather than relying on input dynamics...   I think this would be a good thing for what I'm trying to do.

Any starting points on how to get this kind of control?  Anyone build just the filter of the Micro-synth? Would it even be possible or effective.  Alternative designs? Any other thoughts?