Catalinbread has reimagined the super-weird FX processor Alesis Bitrman for the all-new Bitters pedal.
So what’s the Bitters? Long story short, it’s got knobs for you to conjure up distortion, phaser, and a third user-selectable program called “Bitters”. This program can be one of four different effects: decimator, bitcrusher, frequency modulation, and ring modulation. These three effects are run in series, but you can reverse the order such that Bitters comes first for some complete sonic mayhem. All the effect can be adjusted via the mix control, or at least you can try and rein ’em in.
“In 2004, the Alesis company released a series of effects geared towards tabletop musicians and DJs,” explained Catalinbread. “This series was called ‘ModFX’ and featured seven relatively pedestrian effect types, including vocoder, tremolo, compression, phaser, flanger, and filter. The seventh one, however, was a beast all its own among its ModFX peers and pedals in general. It is called the Bitrman.
“Our Bitters distills the madness of this circuit, fixing up the original’s shortcomings and trimming the fat to deliver an infinitely more usable version. Occupying the darkest corner of the soundscaping realm, the Bitters will give you lush, usable effects or completely render your signal into a puddle of digital mess.”
Get the Catalinbread Bitters here for $209.99.
