Bits and Bits and Bits

Well try the effects forum you might have alot more chance to have a better view on the subject. On the other hand, i think there's a pedal called the bug crusher that does what you describe

 

Try checking out the Devi Ever Bit Mangler.
It's completely crazy, but may be what you need!

 

i use a wmd geiger counter with a bass mod, it can sample crush and bit crush as well as many synth wave options, classic fuzz to nintendo, check it out

(i thought this pedal was cool, my pro noise and psych friends are always trying to borrow it to record)

 

WMD Geiger and Oto Biscuit. Both in heavy use by moi.

JMJ

 

Little bit beyond an 8 bit fuzz, but the Sherman filterbank is a killer mangler! Love it for use with all frequencies.

 

Hey Justin,

Have you ever checked out any of the Iron Ether pedals?

www.ironether.com

It's a company started by a talkbass member, Taylor Livingston. Lots of great stuff. His Xerograph booted the Moog LPF from my board and is much less expensive and MUCH smaller. And the Oxide is a killer bass fuzz.

In any event, his new Frantabit does both true digital bitcrushing/sample rate reduction and the analog approximation of it like the Catalinbread Heliotrope or Bugbrand Bugcrusher. The expression control is what sold me. Mine shows up in a few days.

Just something I thought you should check out.

 

Nice! I should check 'em out. Seems very intriguing w/ expression control.

J

 

I love that these kinds of developments are happening in the pedal world. Reminds of a couple years ago, one of the big cymbal manufacturers (I forget which--Paiste, Zildjian, etc.) was developing a line that were intended to sound like trashy, downsampled DnB type of cymbals. Cool stuff.

 

Yeah, absolutely. I'm a huge fan of Jojo Mayer and Nerve and I dig John Davis' approach on bass.

It's nice to have a bitcrusher with an expression pedal because you can modulate the sound in real time to ape some of those electronica like effects.

 

i step on the knob and twirl it with my foot... not as efficient as an expression pedal, but it looks cool!

the BugCrusher stuff is amazing, too. I have a micro, and it is amazing. Gotta check out Taylor's FrantaBit, though. He made an amazing mayhem-inverse-pitch-shift-chiptune pedal for me, and it kills.

john

 

Hope he guarantees it against you being sucked into another parallel universe

Man, I envy you guys who get to play music where you get to use cool new effects and get wild new sounds.

 

On that note, here's Jean Baudin playing around with the Iron Ether FrantaBit. Very cool pedal. It makes the prettiest ugly sounds . . .

http://www.jeanbaudin.com/FrantaSplat.mp3