Lossy captures the special kind of degradation that happens to digital audio when it's shrunk, transferred, and otherwise contorted:
- Streaming music on a 56k modem
- An MP3 ripped from a CD-R
- A virtual video from 2007 played through a cellphone
All the nasty and beautiful mistakes of heavily deconstructed digital audio in an easy-to-tweak real-time pedal. Artifacts on demand!
This pedal can be broken into three main blocks:
- A loss section that deconstructs the audio
- A filter section to shape and emphasize the artifacts
- A reverb section to feed or diffuse the loss
You won't find a specific format or influence replicated here, but instead a wide-ranging exploration of all the right and wrong sounds made possible through data compression. It's both familiar and unlike anything else.
Features include:
Loss: The Loss section analyzes and breaks down your input audio, degrading it and pulling out a stream of harmonics and artifacts.
Global: Set the overall amount of processing in place of a Mix control. Think of Global like a macro knob that increases the intensity of everything.
Presets: Left and right preset positions each store a preset while the middle position is live.
Filter & Verb: Controls wet/dry mix of reverb and range, width and slope of the filter.
Packet Modes: A supporting flavor to introduce errors, unpredictability, and movement to the Loss effect.
This rad pedal is lightly used and we'll ship it to ya safely and swiftly! Give us a shout at the shop with any questions you may have about it.