Retreat

Attack and decay generator triggered by a metal plectrum. This provides fast and reliable initiation of an ADSR no matter what input you feed it. The attack and release controls vary up to 10 seconds in length and are linear for a constant rise and fall.

The switch on top allows the ADSR to be triggered either as the plectrum leaves the strings or as it hits. This can reliably remove 100% of the plectrum click and mutes or fades the volume as you connect with the strings. The initial pluck can then be altered with precision by the attack setting which changes the timbre, adding a softness control for your guitar. This could be useful for making picked basslines sound fingered, or for extracting the plectrum clicks from an acoustic.