THE LOVER’s FILTERS

I was recently asked to give more details about the Low Pass and Hi Pass Filters in The Lover, so here’s a deep dive.

Inside The Lover are two Trimpots - the two blue squares pictured below. They control what the ‘A Veil’ (LPF) and ‘Loss’ (HPF) switches do. By default ‘A Veil’ is set approximately to the middle of it’s sweep and ‘Loss’ is set to it’s minimum. Therefore the LPF (A Veil) can diminish or increase the high frequency content by tweaking the Trimpot. Whereas - the HPF (Loss) can only cut more high frequencies away. Loss is designed to be a very aggressive HPF so that people can create some really chaotic aggressive filter sounds. It works really well for those EMO ‘lo-fi’ intro sounds and can give you a massive dynamic kick when you then take it back out.

A VEIL (R = 1.4kHz, L = 24kHz)

LOSS (R= 120hz, L = 23kHz)

Below you can see a theoretical spectrum analysis of the most extreme settings from both of the filters. This gives you an idea of exactly what they are capable of achieving. They are both RC Filters and single pole meaning gentle 6dB roll offs, but despite that they are very impactful and can shape your sound quite significantly depending on where you set them.

Thanks for reading and if you have any questions, please feel free to ask away.