The Earthquaker Devices Data Corrupter comes to us from the Andrew Rinard bass board, and I have never been so intimidated by a guitar pedal. But, let me tell you, it makes some amazing noises.
The Data Corrupter is a “monophonic analog harmonizing PLL,” which is a chain of words that means very little to me and probably means a lot to other folks.
Basically, it’s a fuzz and a three-voice guitar synth with modulation.
This demo is more of a reaction video than an education demo, but here’s some insight into the controls.
At the top you have Voice Mixer. This has controls for Square, which is blending in a square wave fuzz in your original octave, the Subharmonic blend, which “assimilates the input signal into one of eight lower octave programs between one and three octaves below the original,” and the Oscillator blend.
The Subharmonic blend takes the options from the Subharmoic section, which features those eight lower octave programs at set intervals.
The final section is the Master Oscillator, which is simply beyond my basic understanding, but the manual says, “The three-position switch on the Master Oscillator control panel labeled Root feeds your input to the signal harvester in its original octave (Unison), one octave down (-1) or two octaves down (-2). Use the Master Oscillator’s Root Switch to fine tune the Data Corrupter’s tracking response for maximum compatibility with your preferred instrument and frequency register. Once you’ve chosen your input octave, the Data Corrupter will perform its calculations and spit out a synthesized frequency, the octave and/or interval of which may be selected via the Master Oscillator’s eight-position rotary switch.”
Those are certainly words, and this pedal is certainly fun!
Guitars are Tunatone Teeny Tuna and Fender Mustang Player Series Bass
Amps are Strymon Iridium and Darkglass Alpha Omega
Video Transcript
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Hey, I’m Emily from get offset. And I believe that once every day you should do something that scares you. And this pedal terrifies me. It’s the data corrupter by Earthquaker devices. And I it’s one of those pedals that Andrew loaned me on his, uh, bass board . And, um, it’s the one I’ve been most kind of afraid to touch.
[00:00:27] I haven’t played it at all. This is not going to be an educational demonstration of this pedal. Uh, like a lot of my other pedals pedal them for complicated pedals. Like the blooper. I tried to make those more educational, this, like this has been around for a while. Uh, I feel like. I just want to kind of have fun with it and then never think about it again.
[00:00:53] So I’ll be doing a demo on both guitar and bass for this pedal. Um, and yeah, without further ado let’s I guess just do the thing. So, uh, I have my two to 1,000. You need to that transit labs, cable, Strymon Iridium round. no gain setting. The only thing, Andrew from the podcast, there’s a podcast. You should check it out.
[00:01:15] Told me is that I should keep the volume control at nine. So when I hear that it’s a long, scared, scary stuff. Alright.
[00:01:32] Okay.
[00:08:59] alright. That’s enough. I’ve had enough that’s enough of that. And so I, I kinda love it, but also what kind of don’t like it at all?
[00:09:13] I got that one got away from me. It got, kinda got away from me at the end there. I just had to put the kibosh on it. Yeah. I think. I think, I, I think, I don’t know. I don’t know to, like, I don’t know what to think of this pedal. It’s wild. It’s it’s insane. I feel like the way that sounds, I think that you should get one it’s very inspirational.
[00:09:39] I got, there were a couple of times where I was really, really feeling it and I’m like, yeah, I could write an entire song around this. And then five seconds later, I’d be like, where am I please? I feel like little girl lost from the Twilight zone. It’s a terrible episode. Alright. Um, well, yeah, stick around for the bass part.
[00:09:57] See all in a minute. Welcome back. And I’m here with my fender player series, Mustang bass, and, uh, for a bass amp today, I am running the alpha Omega cab sim bass pedal by darkglass electronics. Check out the demo. I did just have that pedal, um, began backwards. Part two of this pedal is very scary to me.
[00:10:25] Again, this is not going to be an educational demo. This is a watch. Emily lose her damn mind demo. Sometimes you just have to say, I’m going to have a little bit of fun with my life.
[00:10:42] Getting back to that a neck pickup. All right. So.
[00:15:31] I’m still very scared of this pedal. It’s witchcraft. It confuses me and excites me. Uh,
[00:15:42] ah, I really, I think it’s real cool, but damn I have no idea what to do with it. It’s insane. Um, so that’s the data corrputer and I’ve never played one before. I don’t. I don’t know if I’m ever going to buy one, but I know if I need to sound like I’m trapped within a very scary underground level of a video game, this, this is how I’m going to make that that’s.
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[00:16:41] Uh, yeah. Well, thanks for watching. Thanks for understanding until next time. Goodbye.