Trend price : 200€
Special stompbox effect: a mix of various preamp gains and audio bitcrusher from simple lo-fidelity level to total sonic destruction.
Overview
Main panel features a segment diplay, 6 knob, 2 lever switches and 1 bypass button switch.
Back panel terminal connectors:
- signal input
- signal output
-
control voltage CV input
Sound
the box distorts and destructs sounds in a frequency range from 260 Hz to 58 kHz.
WMD destruction works
in 2 main modes:
- bitcrusher reduces sampling resolution from 8 to 1 bits
- mask: sound is processed through 256 (FF) digital internal waves with specific harmonics contents, and the relative number showed in hexadecimal values on the display.
Control
knobs GAIN and TONES are for tonal modification with preamp gain for sustained sounds guitar (like distortion-oriented) that can be driven directly to wavetable math process or bypassed.
CV
Control Voltage can be changed by a modular system tension. Just plug expression pedal, LFO, CV sequencer or whatever producing something within a 0-5V range.
MODIFICATION
the bass mod adds better low end frequency response than the original. It is made by the original company for now. I don't know any schematics for now.
Audio demo:
Video Clip:
Review
OK: sound / quality built
NOT : expensive / very experimental!
"Extreme effect! can be really interest if you're into dirty sounds, 8 bits, LO-FI or experimental sounds"
Text , review, special demos copyright polynominal.com / Eric Pochesci