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3Leaf Audio Club - Episode 2

The Wonderlove v1, as expected, is a fine filter device. While it has its own voice, there is plenty of overlap with many of my favorites. The singular thing that stands out in both my 3Leaf filters, Proton v4 and Wonderlove, is their ability to produce an up sweep and a down sweep with the same basic settings. In every other filter I’ve used, when switching the direction of the sweep, you must also make big adjustments to the other parameters to make it work. My plan is to find the right couple of devices to place in the loop, resulting in analog synth tones.
 
The Wonderlove v1, as expected, is a fine filter device. While it has its own voice, there is plenty of overlap with many of my favorites. The singular thing that stands out in both my 3Leaf filters, Proton v4 and Wonderlove, is their ability to produce an up sweep and a down sweep with the same basic settings. In every other filter I’ve used, when switching the direction of the sweep, you must also make big adjustments to the other parameters to make it work. My plan is to find the right couple of devices to place in the loop, resulting in analog synth tones.
THANK YOU! for bringing this up, I so wish someone would make a filter that, even with the tap of a stomp switch, could change direction with a predicable trigger. I've even thought why not make a pedal with two filters, which could independently be turned on/off. I once had my Chromatron setup to sweep up, followed by my IE XD setup for down sweep, with the correct decay settings on the chrome it sounded really cool.

But like you said, very hard pressed to find a pedal which you can just flip that switch and not have to scrub your entire setup - and retain full analog control
 
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The MuTron micro-tron III & IV are easy to dial in a sound that works with the sweep up & down & it has a designated footswitch to change the direction of the sweep
See, I’ve never played a Mutron. My comparisons are with EBS, Guyatone, Subdecay, Pigtronix, Broughton, Iron Ether, and Souce Audio. Once I got my Guyatone Ultron, I didn’t see the need to go Mutron.
 
The Wonderlove v1, as expected, is a fine filter device. While it has its own voice, there is plenty of overlap with many of my favorites. The singular thing that stands out in both my 3Leaf filters, Proton v4 and Wonderlove, is their ability to produce an up sweep and a down sweep with the same basic settings. In every other filter I’ve used, when switching the direction of the sweep, you must also make big adjustments to the other parameters to make it work. My plan is to find the right couple of devices to place in the loop, resulting in analog synth tones.

Throw a good octaver & square wave fuzz in the loop & you're in synth territory.
 
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Looks like it based on the
Or you could get the JohnK Meatball clone from the classifieds for a little more and be better off than both versions!

I grabbed that from the classifieds, current favorite filter. Would be nice if it had the fx loop buffer & the expression option like the Wonderlove v2 & Chromatron. All & all I prefer it's tone over the 3leaf, Mutron, Moog, & XD
 
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