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Here is little demo of the Blue Lantern LM4250 Polivoks filter clone. This isn't a straightforward clone of the original - for that you'd possibly be better off going for the Harvestman version, although I actually prefer Blue Lantern's take on it as it has a wider range of tones. Many will disagree, and some find its character TOO gnarly! - you be the judge..

In this demo a droning oscillator is sent into the LM4250, and various manual tweaking takes place - including use of the BRITE mode (more intense resonance), and the LESS and MORE modes (unfortunately, on the module I had these were labelled the wrong way round! - the LESS and MORE relate to the resonance again, and to my ears they seem to increase or decrease the overdrive that occurs at high resonance settings. The more extreme of the three settings (there is also the default NORM setting) used to be called BRUTE on previous versions, and is indeed BRUTAL. It does, however, introduce some rather unpredictable side-effects - such as a cyclic glitching sound at certain settings, and a pronounced "click" / "pop" as the cutoff is swept through the "dead spot" commonly present on Polivoks designs. This particular mode on the LM4250 accentuates this quirk.

I actually really like Blue Lantern's take on the Polivoks, and have had three different versions of this at various points. They all had pros and cons, and sounded quite different...with the earliest Black and White-panelled version being the most dirty and savage-sounding (the one shown in the picture here). They tend to let the source signal bleed through at certain settings, and have various unpredictable quirks - but you can get some WILD sounds out of them! The Green version seemed the most "tamed", and this one - Black panel again, but with orange knobs and all sockets along the bottom of the module - had the widest range of tones, partly due to having an attenuator on the audio input (The tone of it changes dramatically depending on the input level, and it adds a substantial amount of gain at its maximum setting, albeit with an increase in signal bleed)

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from Blue Lantern LM4250, released June 13, 2013

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