Jerry Garcia Tone: Envelope Filter Shootout

Hey, fellow nerds - I'm making this my return to Youtube!

As you know, I've been obsessed with the Jerry Garcia tone rabbithole for well over 6 years now, and part of that rabbithole involves making random comparison videos...I got the idea to do an envelope filter shootout when several kind friends in my facebook group offered to loan me their envelope filter pedals to make this demo - I wanted to do more, initially, but 13 minutes of content with just 4 pedals felt like plenty.

I'm comparing my favorite settings across 4 of the most common pedals for people chasing Jerry Garcia's envelope filter sound. This is not the gospel, merely a take - these settings are what work best with my rig. I use the Micro-QTron in Band Pass mode as opposed to the others in Low Pass, as the low pass is unusably bassy on the Micro-QTron for some reason.

If I had all the time in the world, I would have gone into further depth, but that's what growth is for. Enjoy and let me know what you'd like to see in future comparisons! Thanks!

Timestamps:

Estimated Prophet:
Vintage Mu-Tron: 0:19
MuTron Micro-Tron III: 0:50
EHX Micro Q-Tron: 1:19
EHX Q-Tron+: 1:47

Fire On The Mountain:
Vintage Mu-Tron: 2:16
MuTron Micro-Tron III: 2:45
EHX Micro Q-Tron: 3:29
EHX Q-Tron+: 4:04

Shakedown Street/Noodles:
Vintage Mu-Tron: 4:40
MuTron Micro-Tron III: 6:36
EHX Micro Q-Tron: 8:38
EHX Q-Tron+: 10:21 (false start - but you get the idea)


00:00 Introduction
00:19 Vintage Mu-Tron
00:47 Micro-Tron III
01:17 Micro Q-Tron
01:47 Q-Tron+
02:16 Vintage Mu-Tron
02:45 Micro-Tron III
03:29 Micro Q-Tron
04:06 Q-Tron+
04:40 Vintage Mu-Tron
06:36 Micro-Tron III
08:38 Micro Q-Tron
10:23 Q-Tron+ with lots of mistakes