Overdrive/Distortion that separates the signal into separate frequencies before clipping?

[cdwillis]

I could have sworn I saw someone mention a pedal that separated the input into three separate frequency bands that got clipped separately then mixed back together. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I had a similar idea tonight while doodling around in my notebook.

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

I could have sworn I saw someone mention a pedal that separated the input into three separate frequency bands that got clipped separately then mixed back together. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I had a similar idea tonight while doodling around in my notebook.

VFE Triumvirate probably.

There’s a lot of multi-band distortions, but the triumvirate is probably what you saw mentioned here.

 

[cdwillis]

Yes! Thank you. That was the one. This is what I doodled up. Could use the extra op amp for some kind of tone control after the three band drive section.

 

[Feral Feline]

In addition to the VFE, you could also look into Zorg Effects' Glorious Basstar.

IIRC, someone was doing up a PCB for the Penny Farthing (DOD Boneshaker), but maybe not?

 

[temol]

Old thread from freestompboxes - Triple Band Overdrive

 

[lrgaraujo]

There's also one called Blüe Monster, by Vallhagen. It's not triple band, though, just two. Uses a cd4049 for generating distortion

 

[Alan W]

There’s also the Source Audio Ultrawave, which offers 2 to 10 bands of separation, and many ways to distort them. Obviously, not a pedal that will be cloned.

 

[JamieJ]

This looks awesome. What could be cool it to add a pot/trim to each pair of diodes in the op amp loops to control how much that frequency range is clipped. Like that the 6k8 does in the loop of a blues breaker style pedal.