Black Box AUDIO DESTRUCTOR - circuit bent distortion noise effects box

Essentially this small black box eats audio alive, then chews it up and spits
it out in what can only be described as a deeply offensive manner. The box can
create a wide range of bitcrushing style, gating, distortion and synthlike
frequency effects with an intensity that can be anything from a gentle thin
crunch to a terrifying wall of unstoppable noise.

The controls consist of a input / drive level knob that sets how much of the
signal is sent into the effect, a bypass switch, an output level knob, a 3 way
mode selection switch and a frequency control. Much like a distortion or
overdrive effect, the harder you push a signal into the effect the more intense
and compressed the effect will be, but if you pull back on the input level with
the knob the effects tend to either start gating the input sound or turn into a
gentle gritty fuzz

The mode switch selects between Crunch mode, Splatter mode and Saturate mode.
In every mode the audio is distorted and ground up at a frequency selected by
the frequency knob, Selecting Crunch mode with the switch in the upwards
position gives a spluttering crunchy distorted sound that can sound like
anything from an old fuzz pedal with a nearly dead battery, to a mixing desk
with every light running in the red. In Splatter mode with the switch in the
central position you get a much more intense effect, where the input signal and
the effect signal start to blend into one mighty noise, but with an addition of
disgusting midrange splattering. In this mode you can get brutally saturated
and distorted synth like tones running at the frequency of the input signal.
The final mode is the Saturate mode with the switch in the downward position.
Think of this as the Splatter mode with all pretence at subtelty removed. Most
of the time though its more like an unstoppable wall of vomit inducing
destruction. With an input signal as a low frequency sweeping synth waveform we
haveeven managed to get pseudo ring modulator tones in this mode.

Round the back you'll find input and output sockets along with a 12v power
supply input.

This is NOT a circuit bent machine. We have actually built this thing from
scratch as as such it is a unique processor.

For audio demos, take a look at
http://soundcloud.com/circuitbenders-co-uk/black-box-audio-destructor-1