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Lovetone Cheese Source 2004
Instrument Description:
CHEESE SOURCE™
 

In great condition working fully 100% amazing sound, comes with original box.

Dated 18/6/04 signed and numbered CS0167

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Source: Overdrive
The Source overdrive section is quite a subtle effect, providing the sort of soft psychedelic amp distortion reminiscent of Canned Heat in their more bluesy moments, or early Neil Young during his Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere period. Using it moderately, you find yourself wondering if the pedal is doing anything at all until you click its bypass switch and find that your guitar sounds weak and naked without it.
 
To tweak the sound you're given rotary knobs for Drive, Tone, and Volume. How the drive behaves is fairly dependent on the level of the input source, and by balancing these two factors a wide variety of driven sounds can be created. The Tone control interacts with a three-position chicken-head switch which acts a little bit like a preset EQ control. The switch actually only affects the top end of the signal, so with the Tone control set low very little difference between the three settings can be heard. Conversely, as you turn up the Tone, and the balance of high to low frequencies changes, the settings have a greater effect.
 
I found the Source processing capable of livening up my solid-state guitar amp and giving it the sort of presence and tonal depth I'd otherwise expect from my valve amp. The Source also had a pleasingly beneficial effect when used to process other audio signals, including drum tracks, vocal lines, and keyboard parts.
Cheese: Fuzz
The Cheese section has a similar set of controls to the Source section: Curds is a gain control, Whey is for volume, and the Tone control interacts with another three-position switch. This time the switch is labelled with a drawing of a segment of cheese for the third position! The three switch positions offer different EQ curves: position one is a scooped sound, whereas position two boosts mid-frequencies. The 'cheese segment' setting is the same basic setting as position two, but when the Curds control is turned high the signal overloads and breaks up as if it were being slightly gated.
 
Cheese Source
The Cheese fuzz seems to make almost anything played through it sound powerful and aggressive, so it really is one of those instant-gratification effects. At times I longed for a control to clean up the sound a little, but the desired result could also be had by backing off the input instrument's level slightly.
 
I personally found the Cheese section to be less universally useful than the Source section, as the latter offered a subtler range of tones that were applicable to more material. Nevertheless, one of the reasons the Source and Cheese have been married in the same box is that they actually work very well together, providing many interesting tonal combinations. By default the internal routing means that the Cheese output feeds the Source input, but an extra lead patched from the box's main output to its input can reverse this order — in this configuration the jack labelled Source In operates as the main input and the Cheese Out jack becomes the main output. Once reversed, the pedals interact with one another differently, and generally provide guitars with a slightly more synthy sound. I found this configuration just as viable as the standard routing, and worth exploring. It's also possible to use the Cheese and Source as independent processors by using the main input and the Cheese Out for the Cheese section and the Source In and main output for the Source section.

 

 

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