bitcrusher pedalz

[behndy]

DAMNIT.

lol. so, i use a SRR toanz in a song, so i NEED one onboard. i used the Mooer with bass and keys tonight, it was good on bass, better on keys. but it plays weird with my Nimbus reverb that's at the end of my chain. gets quieter when Nimbus is clicked on 'stead of louder. so, still on a Bug Replacement hunt.

DUCK = BUG??!?

[backwardsvoyager]

Here's a NOT shit video I made of the 8 bit duck today
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMMF9BV-ecE[/youtube]

Dude great demo, your playing is really nice and jazzy
The Duck definitely sounds more musical than a lot of bitcrusher/SRR peds. Closest thing I've used is the patches on the space station chip in my XP1000, which sound good but the lack of parameter control is pretty frustrating.
Waiting on a Mobius now though

[ChetMagongalo]

Here's a NOT shit video I made of the 8 bit duck today
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMMF9BV-ecE[/youtube]

Dude great demo, your playing is really nice and jazzy
The Duck definitely sounds more musical than a lot of bitcrusher/SRR peds. Closest thing I've used is the patches on the space station chip in my XP1000, which sound good but the lack of parameter control is pretty frustrating.
Waiting on a Mobius now though

I appreciate that my friend
I'm trying to improve my guitar skillz, I think it's sometimes hard to critique yourself

[backwardsvoyager]

I appreciate that my friend
I'm trying to improve my guitar skillz, I think it's sometimes hard to critique yourself

Definitely, you can't always pick up on everything!
If you wanna improve guitar skillz, you should use that Pete Davis tab/demo to learn A Spoonful of Slurry by Tera Melos. That is a bloody difficult but rewarding challenge! Definitely changed the way i think about playing and writing on guitar.

[ChetMagongalo]

I appreciate that my friend
I'm trying to improve my guitar skillz, I think it's sometimes hard to critique yourself

Definitely, you can't always pick up on everything!
If you wanna improve guitar skillz, you should use that Pete Davis tab/demo to learn A Spoonful of Slurry by Tera Melos. That is a bloody difficult but rewarding challenge! Definitely changed the way i think about playing and writing on guitar.

I already know EXACTLY what tab you're talking about. I'll write that down.
Thanks for that!

[Tristan]

That was some Jazzy playing indeed, I was also not really expecting to hear that (freaky fuzz forum and all), cool chords in there too.

[DarkAxel]

dat heliotrope is sick!

...says the previous owner

it is, but it's kind of a love/hate relationship. i think I might be the wrong guy for it, it can do some fucking serious abuse, but i'm trying to use it more mildly

[ChetMagongalo]

That was some Jazzy playing indeed, I was also not really expecting to hear that (freaky fuzz forum and all), cool chords in there too.

thank you

[Mudfuzz]

so... the Frostwave Sonic Alienator? are they worth the bling? thoughts..?

[Faldoe]

bumping this old thread.

I had a HEXE Bitcrusher III and now I miss it. Is the Malekko Scrutator a worthy competitor? I'd get another HEXE bit they are pricey...

[Tristan]

Nope, it's completely different, in my opinion.
The Hexe has more of those beautiful artefacts in the highs, the Scrutator is more like any other bit crusher / sample rate reducer, the filter on it is awesome though.

[Pete]

Where do you guys like putting your bitcrushers in your signal chain? I have yet to own one.

[DRodriguez]

Sample rate reducers/Bitcrushers tend to work best towards the end of a chain. True bit crushing adds a lot of white noise that will get brought up even more with effects put after. Sample rate reducing is getting rid of high end information. Think of it like a highly textured resonant low pass filter and place it accordingly. You will hear it to its greatest extent at the end of your chain.

[Pepe]

Rodriguez: What about using a noise gate (i.e. bitcrusher in the loop of a BOSS NS-2) to tame the noise in the pauses?

[DRodriguez]

That would take the noise in the pauses, but not the noise during the playing. It's just a fairly constant bed of white noise. Bit crushing is removing the ability for sound to get quiet. So in place of the quiet, you generally get a lot of harsh white noise. This is what dithering solves, if you want to get technical; but pedals rarely do that.

I have a feeling you're after sample rate reducing though, which is what most pedals labeled bit crushing are actually doing. And that has no need for noise gates, since it has no need to add noise.