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100% of reviewers
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$550.00
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10.0
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Description:
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The MEATBALL™ is an amazing envelope follower/triggered filter - the funky blue alternative to a high fibre diet that has put a smile on (or at least taken the frown off) a lot of faces! Because of the large number of controls, and because changing the position of any one affects the way in which the others will interact, this offers a truly vast array of sound possibilities (from the sublest effects to frightening untamed excesses!)
and means that the Meatball™ can be "tuned in" to dance the most intimate tango without treading on your toes or just wave its arms in the air and let it all hang out. (The filter frequencies can also be tuned precisely to allow laser guided goosing of high gain distortion).
While the Meatball™ is capable of the most gratuitous "auto-wah" funk abuse and visits the promised land of Bootsy "You won't need any spaghetti with this Meatball it's real phat" for fun, this represents but a mere fraction of its potential which includes totally unique new sounds. The large frequency and dynamic range makes it equally suitable for bass, guitar, keyboards/synths, samplers and general studio use - in fact any audio signal whether a single sound source or programme material.
By treating simple waveforms it can become an analogue synth in its own right, or it can be used as an aural exciter to add sparkle and depth particularly to lifeless samples. The external trigger facility enables the filter to be triggered by a completely separate audio source which can be another instrument, pulse or click or even touching a lead connected to the input! A great way to exploit this is to use one aux send on your mixer for the sound source and another one for the trigger so you can literally trigger anything with anything which as you can imagine can give rise to some pretty freaky effects.
Featuring:
* Sensitivity control
* Attack and Decay controls
* Range control (can be used to fine-tune the frequency response and create subtle effects)
* Resonance control
* Blend which 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-type effects)
* FX loop - insert octaves and distortion for some real 70's cheese, or use for 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 (useful for instance as a static tone control or for adding or scooping tone with blend)
* LED showing filter response
* LED showing effect on/off
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Author
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markjazzbassist
prefers electric miles davis
Registered: April 2005
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 8815
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Review Date: Fri January 12, 2007
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $550.00
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Very Tweakable, Infinite # of Sounds, Great Tone, Funkiness to the max
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Cons:
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May be too tweakable for some, Size might be a little large for some
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This is the king of all envelope filters in my opinion. It can do everything normal envelope filters (ie Q-Tron, Mu-Tron, Maxon AF-9, Moog) can do and then some. The amount of different sounds and effects this thing is capable of is enormous. With the Expression Pedal (2 slots available) the amount of funky sounds just mulitplies.
I really like that it can be used as a manual wah pedal too. It houses all my funky noise needs in one box.
If you like liquidy, drippy, sloppy, phasing, funkalicious sounds, this is the pedal for you.
The effects loop is also very beneficial. With a fuzz and octave in the loop you can get some really cool synthy type sound. Also, you can bypass the Meatball effects so that the effects in the loop can be played without anything affecting their sound. This is a major plus. I can have my fuzz in the loop for the synth sounds, and then when i want just fuzz, i turn the filter off and even though its in the loop, its still good to go.
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