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MEATBALL™
MEATBALL™ FEATURES:
• Sensitivity control
• Attack and Decay controls
• Range control - doesn't affect the triggering and can be used to fine-tune the frequency response and envelope amount
• Resonance control
• Blend control - mixes straight signal with effect creating a whole new palette of sounds
• Pedal facility - allows the use of a standard passive volume pedal to create wah effects
• FX loop
• External trigger facility
• Up and Down response curves
• High, Low, and Band-pass filter modes
• Four selectable filter frequency ranges
• Triggering off full or half bandwidth and trigger off
• LED showing filter response
• LED showing effect on/off
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"REAL-TIME" WAH EFFECTS
As well as its most obvious enveloping applications, the Meatball offers a
wide range of static filter options. With the addition of the correct
expression pedal this enables it to be used as a normal wah, but with
considerably more options (all five panel controls on the right "Filter"
half of the pedal still remain active).
The Bespeco VM18L is the ideal expression pedal for this (as well as for the
pedal inputs on other Lovetone effects). Please note the VM18L is not supplied
as standard, but it is available from Dinosaural as a separate item.
Although any passive volume pedal could be used, it may not provide the
optimum sweep and will in most cases have the incorrect polarity for "real
time" wah use.
IMPORTANT: When used with the Meatball Pedal 1 and Pedal 2 inputs, the
VM18L stereo jack connector must be inserted "half way". To ensure proper
operation push the connector in fully and then pull out by one "click" of
the contacts - which is approximately 3mm (or 1/8").
The VM18L slide switch (which is situated on the right hand edge of the
base underneath the rocker section) should be moved forwards (towards the
toe end).
Panel Settings:
Colour max/optional
Intens. min
Blend max/optional
Trigger switches: "Down" and "Off"
Filter switches: "Lo" or the next one up, Band Pass mode/optional
Theoretically (as shown above) Band Pass would be the filter mode of
choice, but High Pass and Low Pass are just as viable and provide
interesting alternatives (especially for filtering fuzz sounds). The
4-position Lo/Hi switch determines the frequency range. The settings are
approximately an octave apart and the lowest two are the most appropriate
for normal wah effects. Intens. sets the bottom frequency within any given
range (which is lowest when it is fully anti-clockwise). As the control is
turned clockwise the bottom frequency is raised so that when it reaches the
fully clockwise position the range is reduced to zero and the expression
pedal has no effect. Using the two controls it is therefore possible to set
the limits of the sweep available.
The "wah" set up (minus expression pedal) is also a good starting point for
using the Meatball as an outboard filter effect, where tweaking Intens.
will have much the same effect as moving the expression pedal. The most
obvious use in this case would be as a Low Pass filter (where the Intens.
control will act as a regular filter cut-off), however as usual the other
two modes should not be overlooked.
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