RPS Effects Bit Reactor Guitar Pedal Demo

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[00:00:00] Emily: Welcome to get offset. My name is Emily and I here with the RPS that reactor bit crusher slash down sampler. If you’ve ever wanted your guitar to sound like a video game, boy. Howdy. Have we got something for you today? This was sent to me in exchange for a demo. I’m playing it through my fender, super reverb from the tone mastery series and the Ernie ball.

[00:00:29] The joke, John Patricia, uh, majesty music, man match C 77 string. Uh, and yes, it sure sure. Is has seven strings, low string is a B. So it’s basically a bear town and seven and a normal six string mashed into one. I’m just going to get a little bit of extra low end for Foria because. Oh, I do love it. So, so, so much I’m going to send it back someday and I figure why not have as much fun with it while I have it, but let’s talk about the pedal.

[00:01:04] It is that crusher. Sure. You’re a little bit familiar. And uh, it’s it’s it turns your guitar into video game noise. Uh, old school ones, not the fancy dancy ones, although I’ve been playing, they still make eight minute art video games. And I’m excited about that. I’ve been playing one recently called eastward.

[00:01:25] You don’t care. So let’s talk about the controls. First off, we have level, you will need to use that. Um, as some of the sounds are louder than other sounds, so I’m glad they did include that crushed. I’m in a band called Sunday crush. Um, it controls how many bits, how, like, I would almost think of this as like the fidelity almost all the way the right.

[00:01:52] This clockwise is eight bits. So more subtle all the way to the left as counter-clockwise is one bed that’s significantly less. So I’m going to start it at eight beds. More subtle a sample. Similarly, all the way to the right is less, is more, it’s more subtle. Uh, that is, um, it’s the sample knob pushes the read.

[00:02:21] It controls the sampling frequency determines the maximum frequency that can be accurately reproduced. I been kind of loosely thinking of it as mixed. That’s not exactly what it is. We will hear it as that knob is decreased. The higher frequency is present in the end input can no longer be recreated, but rather these frequencies are simply being discarded.

[00:02:43] They reappear in different in harmonic frequency, doing the phenomenon known as alias. As it is turned clockwise, the sampling frequencies increase at Philly counterclockwise. Uh, simply frequency will be so low that virtually no, no, we’ll be on scale. So I’m going to turn it. You’re going to hear some, uh, to about two o’clock and that’s kind of where I like it, but let’s um, I just play it, uh,

[00:03:33] all the way

[00:04:55] So with the sampling that low, you can actually barely tell what noted is. And when it’s all the way up, you can hear some sort of undercurrents, but, um, mostly sound clean. That’s kind of why I vaguely think of it as a mix, even though it’s not exactly what it is.

[00:05:48] And yeah, you can do chords, just kind of fine.

[00:05:55] that’s the eight bets as from the sample up and go to. You can see the lights go away, which is pretty neat.

[00:06:51] let’s come, let’s turn it to noon and compare it to eight beds.

[00:07:08] huge difference yet, but if we compare

[00:07:44] it’s getting a little more clever. It’s getting a little more, uh, Hawaii.

[00:07:59] just think it sounds really neat.

[00:08:19] Q everybody just thinking this guitar is wasted on me. Jokes on you. I have it. Anyway.

[00:09:18] Yeah, you can hear it there. You can really start hearing

[00:09:36] sample.

[00:11:17] it’s not even subtle when it’s subtle anymore.

[00:11:27] everything is more distorted now, which is really cool.

[00:13:09] Two bits,

[00:13:14] two beds.

[00:13:23] Sorry. This is where the volume comes in handy because it gets louder. It gets louder. The fewer, if you’ve been to get

[00:13:50] No I love about pedals is when you think, you know what you’re going to like about them when, when they come in and then you ended up liking something completely different. Like I thought I lived this on eight beds and when hated on lower beds, but I really think it’s super cool distortion pedal with fewer bits and a higher to medium sample rate.

[00:14:08] So surprisingly.

[00:15:26] I forgot that.

[00:15:42] square wave.

[00:16:12] It’s kind of, you have to think about when you have the seventh string. You’re like, I can’t hit that bass string.

[00:16:46] one bit.

[00:19:12] So I brought my old friend and focus the old blood, that noise endeavors expression ramper and I’m going to get the a and sample the expression controls the sample on this pedal. So a I’m going to have it about nine o’clock. I’m going to set B two all the way over there, get over there and let’s see that.

[00:19:56] I got a lot. Let’s take a little bit slower.

[00:21:21] Nice. Well, that works. Hey, so I was just some fun with the bit reactor by RPS. Check it out now in a smaller footprint, uh, used to have a bigger, bigger enclosure. So now it’s a lot more pedalboard friendly. So Bravo RPS effects. Um, That was fun. I think my band is really, really going to like it. We love video game themed things.

[00:21:49] I imagined pairing that with a fuzz would be just bananas, uh, delays and things like that. Shoot, I might find even more fun ways. To explore, uh, the Sonic potential of this really soon, you may look at things like this and be like, it makes video games sounds like, what can you possibly do with that? But the truth is these kinds of things really are only limited by your own creativity.

[00:22:13] But I think this had some really cool drive sounds. Um, when you had fewer bets and. Um, turned the sample down even just a little bit. So that alone, I thought was pretty cool and usable, even when you weren’t using it as like video game noises. So yeah, that was really neat and creative and fun. So a really neat stuff.

[00:22:38] I’ll let me double check the price on this thing. It is currently available on the RPS website for $180. So sorry about that. So, um, check it out. Uh, please like comment, subscribe. We have a picture on patrion.com/get offset. If you’re looking for anything else, uh, buy directly from Saul builders when you can.

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[00:23:23] What else do we have to say? Nothing. Just you. Thanks for watching. Thanks for understanding. And until next time, my name is Emily goodbye.