Lovetone Meatball

The Lovetone Meatball is a discontinued true bypass envelope filter which was made by the Lovetone company in England from 1995 to 2001. It was reissued by Dinosaural from 2003 to 2007.

Sound and controls

The Meatball has two sections. There is the trigger section, and the filter section. The trigger section has the following controls:

• "Sensitivity" - Determines the level at which triggering operates.
• "Attack" - Filter attack response
• "Decay" - Filter decay time
• "Up/Down" - A two-position switch, determines whether the filter sweeps up or down
• "Full/half/off" - A three-position switch which determines the level of the bandwidth. Half the bandwidth affects only higher frequencies, while the off position turns off the trigger section, allowing the Meatball to be used as a static-tone filter.

The filter section has the following controls -

• "Colour" - Filter resonance
• "Intensity" - Filter depth
• "BLEND" - Filter decay time
• "Frequency range" - A four-position switch which determines the range of the frequency, from low to high.
• "Filter selection" - A three-position switch which determines the level of the bandwidth, between low-pass, band-pass, and high-pass fiter.

It also has an effects loop, where external effects could be placed after the trigger section, but before the filter section. It also included two jacks for passive volume pedals to control the decay and the intensity.