Legend Of Lovetone Pedals (Big Cheese, Meatball, Ring Stinger, Wobulator)
In this episode I’m going to walk through the entire line of Lovetone pedals! Lovetone pedals are not only amazing in design but they also gave a lot of pedal makers permission to do crazy stuff. Thanks Lovetone!
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Gear in this video:
3:57 Lovetone Doppelganger
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4:53 Lovetone Big Cheese
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6:23 Lovetone Meatball
https://reverb.com/p/lovetone-meatball?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=JoshuaScott
7:32 Lovetone Wobulator
https://reverb.com/p/lovetone-wobulator?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=JoshuaScott
9:07 Lovetone Brown Source
https://reverb.com/p/lovetone-brown-source/used?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=JoshuaScott
10:12 Lovetone Ring Stinger
https://reverb.com/p/lovetone-ring-stinger?_aid=growsumo&gs_partner=JoshuaScott
11:40 Lovetone Flange With No Name
13:30 Lovetone Cheese Source
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The first Witchcraft LP made a stir in the metal community in that it had a sound straight out of 1970, with almost clean guitars and just straight up melodic vocals-but it still had that spooky metal vibe of Black Sabbath with a sound palette more reminiscent of 1970 Jethro Tull (minus the flute.)
The brown source is also a secret Tone/Frequency that makes you crap your pants… haha
Great video, just digging out my old lovetones from the loft. Do you know what power supply these are?
I also have the plate that four pedals can be fitted too which has 5 pin supply to it (like a midi lead). Again do you know what type of supply this would be.
guess i need to know if supply is negative ornpositive tip.
Any links would be greatly appreciated.
I owned most of these way back when and obviously, I regret selling them. The only one I still have is the Big Cheese and that will be buried with me.???? Vlad called me a couple of times in the late 90’s to see which ones I still had. He liked to keep a record of the serial numbers and their owners. He said Lovetone was working on making rack mount gear but I don’t think they ever made any. After hearing this, I want the Flanger? (didn’t have that one) but doubt that’s gonna happen.????
Sexy boxes.
The Big Cheese is the distortion tone on the first Verve record. Great sound.
Responding to your request; a band that was actually really into Lovetone… Mansun. A superbly original British band, give them a listen if you haven’t already.
blows my mind these were made before the FV1 chip. scared to look at the circuit diagrams.
I did build a cheese fuzz and it is fucking fantastic.
Big ask, could you digitize the instruction manuals for the Lovetone series and make them available for download. Big thanks
I love that Big Cheese! It reminds me a Fuzz Factory without the squealing. The Cheese Ball will be on my to-buy list now.
great video, hearing these again. Got four of them like in postcard at begining bolted to the plate. Meatball, big cheese, brown sauce and doppleganger. We used to link them up and throw samples from the Akai S950 (still got that as well) and then resample…..crazy sounds…smoked a lot then.
Gonna have to dig them out the loft, been up there for 20 years.
I wonder when he will discover Magpie Pedals and be amazed by their inventivity…
Fun Fact: Josh has yet to release a flanger pedal
wow, this whole time i had never heard the meatball before and i assumed it was a delay, i am embarrassed.
If I "well, actually" you here for a sec, we have a condiment in the UK called brown sauce. It's like a kind of barbecue sauce with vinegar in it. very sweet and bitter at the same time. That's what it's referencing.
I had 5 of these pedals and regretfully sold them many years ago 🙁
I still have my Big Cheese which I bought shortly before they closed shop. I received a scheduled call from England at my office job in order to buy it. It stopped working a long time ago, but after finding out they closed I didn't want someone else to mess it up. What is my best option in getting this fixed? Do you have a troubleshooting guide I can use? I do not work on pedals or the like, so this would be uncharted territory. Thank you
Maybe it's just me, but I think these were aimed at hardware synths and not guitars.
Billy Corgan actually used 4 of these on the 97 portion of the mellon collie tour. Mixed them with two orange amps and a selmer.
I thought the hinge was cool.
I was lucky enough to own a wobbulator back in the day. Loved jamming with and would get lost for hours in the double stacked modulation.
Pre Kemper, love this era
what i would give to have a Ring Stinger
I used the doppelganger and ring stinger a lot in my then band's first record: the band is called San Pascualito Rey. Lovetones just had the right amount of weirdness. Many think back then that the sounds were coming from a weird synth, when actually it was an electroacoustic guitar, an old Washburn EA-20 to be precise, through the pedals, and sometimes feedbacking them through the guitar's soundhole. The ring stinger also could be used as a theremin if you feedback the VCO, running it`s output through the main input and try to tune by hand the melody notes& pitches by tweaking the knob. I've done that and it is just a blast of fun. Sometimes I ask myself if I would sell them for the amount of money they cost now, but I'm still attached to that piece of gear history.
Mike Gordon has used the meatball for years.
I guess sometimes rare is just rare. A bunch of these sound like shit and I guess only cost a fortune because of so few produced. No wonder they didn't last. Aside from the Big Cheese these were kind of gimmicky.
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Well, if there's one band I can think of that's more of a modern band but really harkens back to the classic days, Yngwie Malmsteen. No, I'm kidding. Phish. If they do use synthesizer for example, it'll be something vintage and fat sounding.They use all that stuff. Wurlitzer Electric pianos. Hammond B3. They'll even bust out an old Moog Theremin every once in a while. But it's not in your face obnoxious.
Hey I think it is a cool design, too! And that Cheese Source pedal sounds absolutely delightful! Thank you for sharing, Josh. I feel like I needed this today. Stay safe.
What's a pedal similar to the crazy sounds of that flanger?