Guitar World Verdict
There’s plenty to explore with the Pour Over Envelope Filter if you’re up for taking your pedalboard in a more leftfield direction, with onboard gain adding grit and a synth-esque effect to the filter sweeps. Very cool.
Pros
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Wide range of transformative filter tones.
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Gain circuit can be used on its own.
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Another well-designed Fender pedal.
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Very attractive price.
Cons
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Not much but envelope filter remains a niche effect.
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Envelope filters, eh? One could make the case that Mike Beigel’s Musitronics got it right with the Mu-Tron III in the 70s and that everyone since has been using that template and just adding their own bells and whistles.
Fender’s first foray into the genre has a similar set of controls to a Mu-Tron on the right with the familiar three-way filter choice (high-pass, low-pass and bandpass) and an Up/Down switch.
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