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12-05-2007, 05:08 AM
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I'm wanting to make some of the stuff I have sound a bit more lo-fi and such. I don't want a standalone bit crusher really I had the CoPilot Antenna and while I liked the direction it was going in I'd rather try something else before I go back to it.
So basically I'm wondering what is involved in analog bit crushing and can you do it with a combination of fuzz's etc?
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12-05-2007, 08:35 AM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | Well, certainly you can get all kinds of raging grrkkkntttddrrrssff from an analog process, but in order to actually get the bit-crush effect you have to at least veer into the grey zone between analog and digital. I'm sure sombody could use a BBD chip and a flip-flop CMOS to create something close. But if it was me I'd be more inclined to get an old C64 or Amiga or an Apple II, with a working sound card, and try to use that as a signal processor.  (I realize that's not at all what you were asking, but that's just too bad.  ) |
12-05-2007, 08:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Wausau, WI | | | Sorry for the hijack but can you name some other bit crushing pedals? Is the Subdecay noise box one?
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12-05-2007, 08:42 AM
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12-05-2007, 08:44 AM
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Originally Posted by OhThePeacock  Sorry for the hijack but can you name some other bit crushing pedals? Is the Subdecay noise box one? | Noise Box isn't one.
Alesis Bitrman is one
CoPilot Antenna 1 and 2
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12-05-2007, 08:50 AM
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12-05-2007, 09:15 AM
|  | Lookout! Here comes the Fuzz! Moderator | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MO | | No idea if this works with bass: Everman Lo Fi Filter o what's the Low Fi Filter?
The Low Fi Filter is what you get when you combine an adjustable wah type filter, a highpass, low pass and band pass filter circuit, custom degredation diode control, white noise source, a high gain boost circuit and even a slight octave tone all in one The samples don't help much either.... but it's cool idea for sounding like AM radio. |
12-05-2007, 09:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Northern VA | | | MXR Blue Box comes to mind. Not bitcrushing exactly but you can definitely squeeze some Nintendo sounds out of it. |
12-05-2007, 09:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Brooklyn | | | Try a combo of effects.
Bass into a noise gate set rather high then into a ring mod and a fuzz.
A compressor might be needed somewhere in there.
Throw on a loop blend and you'll be able to get all sorts of crazy stuff and still keep your dry tone.
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