Boutique pedal maker Red Panda has persistently trafficked in far-out circuits and designs, and now the firm has introduced the Bitmap 2, a pedalboard-friendly bitcrusher.

The Bitmap 2 offers fractional bit discount (primarily creating distortion by decreasing audio sign decision) and pattern price modulation. The brand new pedal additionally provides in waveshaping, wavefolding and a window comparator for excessive digital distortion.

The pedal boasts bit discount from 24 bits down to at least one bit and sampling price discount from 48 kHz right down to 110 Hz. There’s additionally sample-rate modulation with triangle, sq. and random waveforms.

A drive management handles every part from single coil guitars to synthesizers, with +eight dBu most sign degree and sufficient achieve to sound like an overdriven mixer channel. Modulation and envelope management create dynamic, responsive distortion and digital artifacts.

Different options embrace a mixture management for dialing in the quantity of impact in the sign, a four-pole low-pass filter, an aux footswitch assignable to faucet tempo or preset choice and extra. 

Customers can save 4 presets on the pedal itself, or as much as 127 by way of MIDI. Moreover, there’s a web-based editor for modifying presets and accessing “hidden parameters.”

The Bitmap 2 works with guitar, bass, synthesizers, drum machines, and different devices or line degree sources, and is out there for $299.

For extra info, head to Red Panda Lab.