Bernard d'Uur's little lab; the docter is in!

I simply love envelope filters.  The way they respond,  just stand out in the mix and deal with dynamics,  I think it's awesome.  The Emma DiscumBOBulator is one of those favourite envelope filters I own.  From one of my former blog entries, the one about the MXR Envelope Filter , I got a lot of requests to do the Emma in a similar way (as it is a clone of the MXR). So here to add some wah to the mix! Emma Electronics is a company that came to light in Århus, Denmark. There, Jan Behncke, music store owner and vintage tube amp lover,  got a quest on making the best envelope filter ever produced to mimic the tone of Pat Martino. He used his old MXR Envelope Filter as a standard and designed the pedal around it: the DiscumBOBulator was born. The second pedal this builder designed was a compressor (TransMORGrifier) and in 2000 these two pedals were premiered on the Frankfurt Musik Messe. It was a hit and started the brand being a real dedicated and interesting ...