EQ Bit Commander

[behndy]

yahp. Earthquaker Devices just put out the Bit Commander. the little sheet of info that came with it talked about using it with guitar, but you can get pretty durn gnarly on bass.

here's a quick, crappy youtuber vid.........

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the thing has 6 knobs -

Sub - 2 octave down
Down 1 - 1 octave down
Up 1 - 1 octave up
Filter - gentle eq filter
Level - overall output level of the pedal
Base - clean signal run through a square wave

i just picked it up, haven't run it HELLZA loud yet, but it seems pretty neat. it's cool that you have the ability to dial in the volume of 4 different octaves of your clean signal. it seems to track on the Down 1 and Up 1 pretty decently from the 9th or so fret up, pretty glitchy below that.

digging it so far.

gnAr!

 

[JBTucci]

Wow, that sounds great.

 

[warwick.hoy]

I suck for never having seen any of the Tron movies.

 

[M Sterling]

Great demo, Behndy!

 

[behndy]

d'awwwwww!!!

see, some of us (me) are more hacky players than Captain Skeelz Fingies (Sterrrrrrrrlinger), so slowwwww explanatory knob twiddlings. heh. KNOB.

urrr. i mean, thanks!

 

[DannDubblewe]

Thanks Behndy! It seems as if it could be a Second-Voice killer for me. I love me some SV but what i get the most use out of is the basic synth sound that is achieved with the -1 oct. I'm thinking I could flavor the Bit Commander with my own fuzzzzzzeerrzzzzz aaannnddd save some space aaannnddd starve to death. Time and money will tell what happens though


At any rate, thanks so much for the demo. Subbbbbbbbbbrrrrrsoniccctimes.

 

[behndy]

lulz. yeah, the second voice is fun, and there's some just DIRTY nasty in there, but the Bit Commander seems to give a lot more control over your tone shaping options.

i like both a lot, but if i was going to go with just one, it'd probably be the Bitto Commando.

 

[behndy]

oh yah. after playing with it for awhile one of the neat things that while for most people the deep, not catching on to the note ANGER from the Sub knob might not be that useful, for people that are into noise but like to still stay in control....... MOST pedals that get into that range of deep grindy synth madness do the kik-kik-tik when you try to end the note. for getting ugly and filthy this DOES break the most cleanly when you mute the strings then any other noise pedal i've used.

i like that.

 

[sillyfabe]

hmmmmm interesting....sub'd

 

[warwick.hoy]

So wait,....I'm a little gibbered up here,....you saying the BC does not glitch out easily?

 

[Wud]

deeeepy bleeepy

 

[behndy]

oh it glitches out. it goes about a half step up then back randomly on the Sub and the Down 1 when you're playing too low (note wise). it actually sounds really neat to hav that going on in the background by having them up a tiny bit while doing more bettah tracking on the Base and Oct Up knobs.

but you know how with the more gnarly stuff like Dwarfcraft when you stop a note even infinitesimal fret noise does little clicks and pops? it's almost impossible to do a clean break on a note without a gate? the Bit Commando almost feels like it DOES have a gate. tha extra noise doesn't show up as much, and if you hold a note it'll maybe glitch out trying to latch onto the pitch, but it'll sputter out almost sharply.

make sense? i'm not near a comp to do a clip till tonight.

i'm Awkward Explainer Lad sometimes.

 

[warwick.hoy]

oh it glitches out. it goes about a half step up then back randomly on the Sub and the Down 1 when you're playing too low (note wise). it actually sounds really neat to hav that going on in the background by having them up a tiny bit while doing more bettah tracking on the Base and Oct Up knobs.

but you know how with the more gnarly stuff like Dwarfcraft when you stop a note even infinitesimal fret noise does little clicks and pops? it's almost impossible to do a clean break on a note without a gate? the Bit Commando almost feels like it DOES have a gate. tha extra noise doesn't show up as much, and if you hold a note it'll maybe glitch out trying to latch onto the pitch, but it'll sputter out almost sharply.

make sense? i'm not near a comp to do a clip till tonight.

i'm Awkward Explainer Lad sometimes.

I see what you're saying. With my DD Shiva where it currently it's a noisy MFer, where as before having it after the Chunky Cheese,....on it's (the CC) gated setting,...rests were dead silent.

 

[behndy]

THANK YOU. rests. wonderfully descriptive word. the CORRECT descriptive word.

i spend too much time wobbling alone. i forget to use the agreed upon musical nomenclature sometimes.