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The musical genre known as glitch has been around since the late 1990s. It embraces all sorts of electronic noises that are typically produced through error, such as the skipping of portable CD players and the stuttering of damaged CDs, as well as lo-fi sounds like bit-rate reduction, sampling artifacts, and extreme time stretching and compression.
For the uninitiated, here’s a great album by The Books that uses (mostly but not only) guitar samples in creative and often glitchy ways. Check out minute 8’30” for a glitch/stutter explosion.
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Glitch artists are admirably adventurous when it comes to sound, so it makes sense that many guitarists have taken an interest in the genre. After all, guitar players have been exploring the terrain of messed-up audio for more than 60 years. Consider sound-wave distortion: It was considered undesirable until 1950s blues and rock players began pushing their amps to the limit and creating harmonically rich tube overdrive. For that matter, fuzz was discovered by accident in 1961 when a mixing console channel began to act up at a recording session. These “noises” were the analog glitches of their time, and since then they’ve become the standard for guitar tone.
Traditionally, musical artists have created glitch effects in computer audio workstations by manipulating samples. In recent years, however, advances in digital signal processing have made it possible to replicate the sounds of the genre just by hooking up to a stompbox. And in the spirit of stutter-guitar pioneers like Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood, players have begun to embrace these extraordinary sounds, as well as tape-speed effects, audio blurring and stretching, and many other tones associated with glitch.
If you’re uncertain about investing in a glitch stompbox, you might be able to create similar sounds using effects you already own. Long before dedicated glitch pedals existed, guitarists discovered they could coax wild stutter effects from their digital delays by using them at extreme settings. The Boss DD-3, a much-loved digital delay since its introduction in 1986, has proven a capable way to generate stutter and glitch, as have the more recent Boss DD-5 and DD-6, which were released in 1995 and 2002, respectively. In addition, the relatively new Electro-Harmonix Canyon has a Sample-and-Hold mode that creates stutter effects. Other, now-discontinued pedals capable of these effects include the Digitech Digidelay and Boss RV-3 Reverb. Check out the videos below to see how to achieve these effects with each of these boxes.
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Of course, if you’re looking for a pedal that’s built for the sole purpose of generating great glitch sounds, there are numerous units out there worth checking out. We’ve collected 20 of the best glitch stompboxes currently on the market. As you’ll see, many of them excel at not only skipping and stuttering but also other time-based effects. Read the descriptions and then dig into the videos provided to find the pedal that will take your guitar sound into new, uncharted realms.
Since the first digital audio glitches were generated by various devices of the late ’80s and early ’90s (think skipping CD player, video-game bugs, crashing PCs, badly looped samples, etc.) many modern glitch pedals are openly trying to recreate those “vintage” digital artifacts. Here’s a selection:
Alexander pedals syntax error 2$299 | Twice as wide as V1, this multi-mode arcade game-inspired pedal packs a ton of new features, including a stereo path, a mini-sequencer, and an LCD screen to help you make sense of it all. The modes aree Stretch (glitchy delay/reverse), Air (grainy reverb), Ring (ring mod), Clube (digital fuzz with filter), Freq (weird frequency filter) and Wave (Time based modulator).
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Mercury Ottobit Jr 8-Bit Effect$299 - “Audio In >> Video Game Out” device that lets guitarists employ synthesis techniques and bitcrushing to create new audio textures.
Simon the Magpie Stutterphone V2~$250 | A kill switch+fuzz pedal built around a rotary phone dial. It cuts the signal either by pressing the red button in the center or by dialing a number in the rotary, which produces a brief square tremolo effect. A red button on the top of the case reverses the on/off order. A looper function (synchable to an external clock) lets you record your kill switching action and loops it, creating on/off patterns.
RECOVERY CUTTING ROOM FLOOR V2$199 | A versatile, hand-wired pedal offering wild modulation, delay, freeze and stutter effects, with a lo-fi angle. The Wow knob controls both intensity and modulation parameters, while the Stability control acts in conjunction with it as a tape deterioration effect. The freeze button allows swelling momentary effects.
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Magpie Pedals - The Crazinator$?? - A distortion/bit reducer pedal with pitch shifting and a wonderfully metallic-sounding “robot” reverb. A touch-responsive controller (apparently the screw end of a light bulb) on top of the pedal adds an unusual but useful element of interactivity. There’s also a host of mini-toggle switches that affect pitch and also change how the touch controller behaves.
Twice as wide as V1, this Multi-mode arcade game-inspired pedal packs a ton of new features, including a full stereo path, a mini-sequencer, and an LCD screen to help you make sense of the insane tones it can deliver. The modes include Stretch (glitchy delay/reverse), Air (grainy reverb), Ring (ring mod), Clube digital fuzz with tuneable filter), Freq (weird frequency filter effect) and Wave (Time based modulator). V1 is still awesome (and cheaper), but mono.
Bitcrushing is at the heart of the Ottobit Jr.’s job description, but it can also do pitch shifting, sequencing and stuttering. It features a six-step sequencer module, a low-pass filter, expression and MIDI control, and a stereo output. The sequencer is especially novel, offering control over Pitch Sequence, Filter Sequence and Sample Rate Sequence. Its controls include Sample Rate, Filter, Bits (to change bit depth), Stutter, Sequencer and Sequencer Multiply, which sets the sequencer speed as a multiple of the tap-tempo There’s also an Alt button that lets you access a deeper parameter function within each of the six controls.
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A bizarre pedal built around a rotary phone dial. It’s a kill switch + fuzz that cuts the signal either by pressing the big red button in the center or by dialing a number in the rotary, which generates some sort of short square tremolo effect until the dial is back in its original position. This effect can be reversed by pushing the red button on the top side of the case. It also has a looper function (which can be synched to an external clock) that records your “kill switching” action and loops it, creating sound on/off patterns.
Cutting Room Floor Pedal (Recovery) This is an extremely versatile, hand-wired pedal offering wild modulation, delay, freeze and stutter effects, with a lo-fi angle thanks to the Wow knob, which controls both intensity and modulation parameters, and the Stability control, which acts in conjunction with it as a tape deterioration effect. The freeze button allows swelling momentary effects.
Created from a circuit-bent toy, the Crazynator is a distortion/bit reducer pedal with pitch shifting and a wonderfully metallic-sounding “robot” reverb. A touch-responsive controller (apparently the screw end of a light bulb) on top of the pedal adds an unusual but useful element of interactivity. There’s also a host of mini-toggle switches that affect pitch and also change how the touch controller behaves, as well as a small constellation of LEDs that flash in time to the audio signal. The orange knob in the center feeds your signal back into the unit and works in conjunction with the yellow output knob at the back of the box to add intense levels of grunge. Most curious is a plastic socket that can be screwed onto the touch controller to provide other ways of interacting with the pedal.
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Fun and weird sounding, the pedals in this list are sample-based (aka “granular”), simple to use and feature mostly knobs and just a few switches if any. They are recommended for those creative players who don’t have too much patience to dig through dozens of features, preferring instead a more intuitive set of options.
Malekko Charlie Foxtrot$189 - A digital buffer/granular pedal with both autocapture and manual-capture. Playback and capture can be manipulated through six knobs that control buffer size, duration of repeats, pitch mode, threshold, mix, and preamp level. Any combination of Size, Duration, Pitch Mode, and Trigger Threshold settings can be controlled with an expression pedal or CV in.
Bananana Mandala$209 - A rather simple but utterly creative multi-function glitch pedal with eight modes including Repeat, Reverse, Random, Trigger, multi-speed playback, pitch shift, square wave sound. Two knobs (Time and the mode-variable Function) allow extra manipulation, together with the momentary footswitch, which in Up and Down mode creates repeats increasing or decreasing in pitch.
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The King of Gear Mini Glitch$190 - The smaller version of the King of Gear’s deluxe Feral Glitch, which was developed to recreate the random stutter Max/MSP effects of Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood. It’s capable of aggressive glitch sounds, but
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