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 ever 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 filters. Shown is the least extreme setting from the HPF - when engaged it starts at ~175Hz and can sweep higher until even the highest frequencies disappear - 24kHz+. The LPF shows the most extreme setting - the lowest frequency of the LPF is ~865Hz, from there it will sweep up to 24kHz+ where it is no longer having an impact. 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 how you set them.

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