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You can also have something like a treble booster where high frequencies get more gain boost than low frequencies.
The complication of making something that's clean on low notes and distorted on high notes is unfortunate reality that all notes on guitar have harmonics that extend upwards - even low notes. So if you play a low E, you still get harmonics extending up into the kHz region. And if you play up at the top of the neck, the fundamental frequencies are still only in the high hundreds of Hz; there's really too much spectral overlap between high and low notes to do it cleanly.
You could do it with DSP to detect the note being played and adjust distortion settings accordingly, I suppose? I don't know of anything that does that off the shelf, personally.
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Helix family have a crossover you can use to split paths, I've not had much joy with it though.
Do the boss MFX have a crossover?
That certainly looks like it could do the job but is a bit more complicated than i’m hoping for. Also, I'm struggling to see how I would use it when the pitch change is happening at the Whammy, ie.
That's an interesting possibility. In fact, the SD-2 that I'm currently using does seem to add more distortion to the upper octave than to the lower - it was this that gave me the idea to try and clean the bass part completely; it sounds wicked with some long delay applied.
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It’s a thing in some bass pedals too iirc
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