IdiotBox Lo-Fi Instrument Effects & Noiseboxes
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-D4 Distortion The -D4 is a straight-up distortion pedal. Muthafucka say wha? That ain’t cool and booteek! It should be a non-coloring transparent overdrive or some other bullshit internet forum descriptor. Well, this is exactly what it says. A good distortion pedal that has plenty of volume and gravelly gain on tap with a true tone that will boost or lower highs. At high gain it can get a little muffy, at lower gain it is looser and can work as an overdrive with a bit of chest hair on it or even tap into rodent territory. Hitting a hot tube amp with the -D4 gives it some serious \m/etal vibes, almost like a JCM 800. What is also cool about it is that unlike most major manufacturer distortions, this one plays well in a pedalboard context. Plug a mic into it and release your inner Al Jourgansen. Smaller 4.37″ X 2.37″ X 1.07″ MXR sized enclosure, true bypass switching, common 9v center negative BOSS style power input and battery snap. |
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Lazer Fuzz A unique square wave filtered fuzz. Impress your gear friends and Sci-Fi nerd friends all at once! Smaller 4.37″ X 2.37″ X 1.07″ MXR sized enclosure, true bypass switching, internal trim pot for boostability, common 9v center negative BOSS style power input and battery snap. |
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Mad Doctor and Cyclops Mono Stutter Idiotbox Stutter pedals are based on a vintage style vactrol, giving off a super hard square wave tremolo sound that is hard and dead silent in-between waves. So the Stutters are more akin to the Vox Repeater than to the old fashioned light-based Fender amp models with softer, more trapezoidal waves. You can use the pedal like a standard trem, or like you’re raping a kill switch, or like you’re playing your guitar into the world’s largest fan or like you’ve plugged your guitar into a modular synthesizer with a square wave LFO on the VCA. The stutter effect can be so intense that at higher speeds it clicks a bit on the front end so your stutters never lose clarity. The Cyclops Mono Stutter is small and has one pot for rate. It goes from slow to moderately fast (though certainly below oscillation rate). The Cyclops has the rate of the trem in his one beady little red eye. The Mad Doctor Stutter is a deluxe version, adding a pot for depth and a ratio switch which gives the Mad Doctor a more intense speech impediment. The Mad Doctor’s trem rate can be monitored in his two flashing eyes. Plug in an expression pedal to the Mad Doctor Stutter and you can control the rate of the stutter with your feet, getting some real Ride-like trem bursts. These are guitar pedals but they are also handy on synthesizer. Hold a bass note note down on a pad and you’ve got instant Giorgio Moroder synth bass, or plug in a phase in front of a Stutter and pull up an organ patch and you’ve nailed “Won’t Get Fooled Again”. Pull up a reedier patch without the phaser, manipulate the speed with your free hand or an expression pedal and you’ve got instant “Baba O’Riley”. Also very cool on vocals, or just play A on your guitar real loud through a Stutter for two hours and pretend you’re in Spacemen 3. Both pedals are built tough, can take 9v batteries or wall wart. They work fine with power bricks and daisy chains. Mad Doctor Stutter 4.7″ x 3.7″ x 1.18″ enclosure, true bypass switching, common 9v center negative BOSS style power input and battery snap. Cyclops Mono Stutter Smaller 4.37″ X 2.37″ X 1.07″ MXR sized enclosure, true bypass switching, common 9v center negative BOSS style power input and battery snap. |
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Death Ray Frequency Mangler The Death Ray Frequency Mangler is a sort of frequency modulation pedal that takes a distorted signal and divides the frequency in on itself, kinda like a ring modulator but without the extra oscillator to mess it up. So the pedal can at times sound like an octave fuzz, a ring mod, and a hot mess of gated circuit-bent Casios on their last percent of voltage. And that’s just on guitar. Plug other stuff into it and it glitches out in the most satisfyingly random ways. Drum machines and synthesizers turn into something that sounds like an Imperial scout droid getting lazerbowed in an amphitheater. Manipulating the Z, A and P knobs (ZAP, geddit?) creates some interesting other-wordly timbres. Plug an expression pedal in and manipulate the Z knob hands-free while you strangle your favorite guit-fiddle and tweak your electronics with yer digits. 4.7″ x 3.7″ x 1.18″ enclosure, true bypass switching, common 9v center negative BOSS style power input and battery snap. |
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Blasteroid Fuzz Clone of the elusive Earth Sounds Research Graphic Fuzz. Not many of the real deal working out in the wild so I’m stoked to have put this together. This fuzz is a monster. Loud as can be and the filter adds some very rad microphonic wah-ish tones to set it apart from your normal fuzzes. SMASH knob controls the filter, BLAST knob controls the boost. 4.7″ x 3.7″ x 1.18″ enclosure, true bypass switching, common 9v center negative BOSS style power input (*** if using a power supply for this particular effect it must be separate not chained. ***) and battery snap. |
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UFO Square Wave Mini Synth Ebay is full of simple oscillator box designs homebrewed by the amateur solder soldier. The UFO has those humble origins too, starting with a simple square wave generator and adding a subtle tone control, a knob for pitch and a knob to control a second square wave oscillator to crossmod the main square wave. So you’ve got repeating, stuttering square waves that can dive low and throb some deep bass or be pitched up high for crazy arcade game sounds, or modulated to distort and make the signal more complex. You’ve even got a kill button that you can use to mute the signal at random. What is different about the UFO is that IdiotBox makes it, so it’s RELIABLE and in a metal pedal enclosure so it can take a beating. The sort of instrument you can really WAIL on in the middle of a hot, sweaty, stage-jumping set and not worry it’s gonna fall apart. Smaller 4.37″ X 2.37″ X 1.07″ MXR sized enclosure, volume knob, ON/OFF switch and standard 1/4″ output jack. 9V battery power only. |
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