as part of my constant barrage of potentially harebrained ideas, i've been thinking that it would be nice--if that's the appropriate word--to have some kind of signal mutilator on the front-end board so i could run fucked-up stuff into the main board's fuzz and modulation arrays. i've been looking around, but haven't found anything that sounds right.
what i'm NOT looking for:
a bitcrusher
a synth pedal that converts everything to square-wave fuzz before processing it
something that just does extreme warbles like the Seppuku Mind Warp
what could be in the ballpark:
delay with extended functions
extreme modulation
some kind of sound degradation that isn't just converting to 8 bit
all of the above in one place would be optimal.
i'm more interested in Boards of Canada, Autechre, and a more billowy, ambient take on "To Here Knows When" and the little interstitial pieces between tracks on Loveless and the contemporaneous EPs by MBV than into the crushing, industrial NIN sort of thing. i've looked at Chase Bliss and Red Panda; neither have anything that makes the sounds in my head. any and all suggestions gratefully received.