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Let's talk about glitchy effects. I have had a dream for a bit now of putting together a glitch board. I want to write energetic, intricate "rock music" with a lot of glitchy sound fucker-uppers. I guess Tera Melos is a good example of a "rock" band using glitchy stuff.

I have a Raptio, so theres an obvious one. I know the gb24/ct5 get glitchy. MASF Possessed. Are there more that I'm not thinking of?

The Afterneath is sort of a glitchy reverb. I want one bad after the nick reinhart demo.

Bit crushers, too. I briefly owned a frantabit and will own another one day.

Even some Fuzzes get glitchy too. TAFM and Unpleasant Surprise.

What are your favorite glitchy effects? I would prefer not to have to twist knobs while playing if I can help it, but tabletop stuff might be fun too.

Also, glitchy bands too!

Edit: whoops! Meant to put this in general gear.

Revolver!

It does everything the raptio does (glitch wise) and more!

Perhaps a devi ever LP. It's a fuzz that splutters pretty randomly.
Maybe fuck crackle into glitch. So ts like glitching the crackle...

Very interested to see where this thread goes as I'm only starting to incorporate glitch into my playing, and it's not necessarily easy to make it sound ungimmicky.

Monophonic pitch effects. Analog and old digital stuff: Octaves, PLL, Microsynth, classic Whammy. Throw notes at them and let the tracking go nuts.

leaves turn wrote:Monophonic pitch effects. Analog and old digital stuff: Octaves, PLL, Microsynth, classic Whammy. Throw notes at them and let the tracking go nuts.

I definitely want to get some kind of pll at some point. I had a second voice but it was a little limp. That new dwarfcraft GEARS looks pretty promising. I imagine its pll-ish.

Im gonna google that revolver.

Oh! Forgot about that mwfx stuff. There's one called the glitch. Should be obvious.

goroth wrote: it's not necessarily easy to make it sound ungimmicky.

This. For sure. I don't wanna overuse my Raptio and make it annoying. However, a second one would be sweet for convenience of not having to mess with settings.

Yeah the revolver can basically cop every other glitch pedal out there except maybe some aspects of the Possessed and Freeze but even then I don't think it can be beat. It's hideously expensive but the price reflects the engineering involved.
Boss DD-5 is what nick reinhart uses along with a DSD-2 but the DSD-3 and DD-6 are also cool. Agata from melt-banana uses the DD-6 a shit ton.

Aside from sampling effects, the wolf computer is an awesome glitchy arpeggio kinda fuzz, and the line 6 FM4 does horrendous things when you give it an out of tune note or multiple notes, probably my favourite wacky pedal ever.
Whammy wah xp100 also has dreadful tracking and is cool for glitchy stuff.

Having said that there are more and more bands trying to cop that glitchy rock sound nowadays so out of consideration I'd say try not to overuse effects like these because it gets predictable really quickly. What I like about e.g melt banana is that the glitches are like the cells structuring the music rather than regular fills in riffs and stuff. There are some great things you can do thinking outside the box like that.

Bit Commander has always been a good one for getting Glitchy. Playing chords through a whammy or any sort of device that fucks up tracking easily is always fun as well.

Seppuku delays, Red Panda Particle, trems with random modes, intelligent harmonizers set to the wrong key, RLD Adrenalinn if you rtfm and put in some tweaking time. Max, PD, CSound stuff if you're willing to run through a PC.

The Seppuku Octave Synth is able to produce very glitchy sounds. I want one, but they are so hard to find!

Dear god, no one has mentioned the Mid-Fi Glitch Computer yet?

RED PANDA PARTICLE FOR YOUR FATHER'S SAKE.

Alesis ModFX line. Especially the Bitrman, but any of them with randomizer settings.

One thing I liked when I had a ring mod was to set it to a random pitch, blend with the dry signal, and run it into a gated fuzz like the unpleasant surprise. Got this awesome glitchy robot growl.

Really want to try a particle. There are a couple tracks on the new Big Sir where Juan does some crazy shit with it.

So how do you guys glitch? Right now my only options are overloading my Cubic with notes and gratuitous Raptio abuse. Once I get a looper I know I can record tiny samples and play them back and it'll have a glitchy effect.

Mantic's Flex Pro

neonblack wrote: Really want to try a particle. There are a couple tracks on the new Big Sir where Juan does some crazy shit with it.

Clips?