McMeat - Clone of a famous envelope filter

[Joep]

Hi All,

Here you can find the McMeat, a clone of the Lovetone Meatball.

I'm pretty sure we debugged the layout, so it's released now.

Many thanks to Moosapotamus, for his great pre-work on this. Without him this project would not have been possible!

Good luck building,

Joep

[Bill_F]

How does it sound?

[Marcos - Munky]

Cool!!! Thanks a lot!!!

[travissk]

Very nice!

[Dan N]

Joep,

I can't get the pdf to open. Was Charlie's schematic (meatball_v2.png) correct?

Thanks,
Dan

[Joep]

Hi Dan,

Strange, I guess you need Acrobat 5 or higher to open it.

Actually the only thing wrong in Moosapotames' schem way the decay pot was wired. A lot of people (incl myself) were tricked by the way the envelope detector looks. That looks rather funny electronic wise.

Send me a PM and maybe I can send you the stuff in an other format or something.

Bye,

Joep

[Gripp]

So cool!!! Not a long wait after all  :wink:
Thanks a lot guys!!!
Best!/
Pelle Garpebring

[smoguzbenjamin]

Wow. How the hell am I gonna fit all those knobs on a BB sized box? :shock: Otherwise I won't be able to fit it on my pedalboard! :cry:

[ExpAnonColin]

Roxxor!  When work-alike is said, does it mean clone or something that works the same?

-Colin

[ExpAnonColin]

Wow. How the hell am I gonna fit all those knobs on a BB sized box? :shock: Otherwise I won't be able to fit it on my pedalboard! :cry:

If you used a 1590S, which is basically a deeper and tiny bit smaller BB, you could probably fit all of the knobs, but you'd have to use sub sub mini knobs, pots, and probably split the circuit board and use a jack and no battery.  It could be done!

-Colin

[smoguzbenjamin]

Could be done but on my almost non-existent budget I can barely afford the mini mini stuff. In holland they charge you more the smaller it gets.

[Dan N]

Joep, Thank you! I got them.

[Joep]

Hi Colin,

There a few minor differences with the original.
- No expresion pedal support
- True bypass

Bye,

Joep

[Gringo]

Hi Dan,

Strange, I guess you need Acrobat 5 or higher to open it.

Exactly. I have acrobat 4 and it didn't open, but worked just fine with acrobat 6.

[moosapotamus]

Nice work, Joep.  :wink:

Thanks
~ Charlie

[psst]

I built mine with Joep's PCB, it works perfect.
Actually, I built mine with Expresion Pedals support too.
The only thing you have to do is wire the pedal1 and pedal2 jacks like this:

(Sorry it's in spanish, it's for an article I did for pisotones.com, that will be available in 2 or 3 days)



This way when pedal1 is not connected, tip of Decay is connected to ground, but when it's connected, it's disconnected to ground and connected to pedal1 (which connects to ground through the pot, anyway).




(self explanation)

[psst]

Thanks to the GREAT work done by Moosapotamus and Joep, I built one too, working perfectly.
I wrote an article for Pisotones (in spanish, sorry) with photos and mp3:

http://www.pisotones.com/Meatball/psst/meatball-psst.html

[Manolo Dudes]

I wrote an article for Pisotones (in spanish, sorry) with photos and mp3:

http://www.pisotones.com/Meatball/psst/meatball-psst.html

Amazing!  :wink:

[MarkB]

Wow
Wowwowwow... both of those builds are amazing!

Psst - which PCB layout did you use? Moose's?  and is that a Hammond 'D' box?

Joep - I love the silver knobs..

man - those builds are amazing...  hmm, do I need an envelope filter?
"-)

[troubledtom]

very nice job gent's!!!!!! wish i could read spanish  :oops:
       truly great,
           - tom