Stellertone - a curious idea...

[Pilgrim]

Has anyone played with one of these?  I don't have plans, just happened to trip over its web page and thought it a little different:

http://www.stellartone.com/Page.asp?NavID=147

[exiledarchangel]

Sounds like a varitone rip-off to me.

[Dave W]

Sounds like a varitone rip-off to me.

Hard to say without a little more detail. Sounds like it may do more.

[Lightyear]

They have demos on their site of what it sounds like on guitar but no bass samples from what I can tell.

[Basvarken]

I really don't hear a big world of difference...
I wonder what they mean by 0.44 octave steps and additional resonance selections in the upper bass & low midrange harmonics  ??

[exiledarchangel]

Just fancy words. Its just a varitone without choke, a low-pass filter. They add a "military grade" rotary switch and sell it for $99.
No problem with how much someone charge for his work thru. See this video and read the comments, there are some nice samples there.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

I wonder what they mean by 0.44 octave steps and additional resonance selections in the upper bass & low midrange harmonics  ??

Translation: we're going to use fancy math to try and impress you with a stepped passive filter. There's a bunch of surface-mount capacitors on the base of the pot. Each "click" selects a different value of capacitance and it's like having your tone control rolled all the way off and using the different cap values to vary where the high frequency rolloff occurs. It's different than a tradional tone control which works by varying the amount of signal routed through the tone cap, but the sonic difference between the two will be negligible unless you have extremely low output pickups. 

[exiledarchangel]

Case closed, me thinks.

[Pilgrim]

The demo seems to have some potentially useful sounds.  Perhaps it does pursue the same idea as a varitone, but puts it to work in a different way.