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 in its original box! Give us a shout at the shop with any questions you may have about it.