Less < — > More

Excellence in interface design. I should mention: this is a real guitar pedal (it’s the Dead Bat from Audio Alchemy). You place this device between a power source and an analog pedal and it simulates a drained battery. Well, that’s how it is described. What it does is steadily reduce the power that is sent to the analog pedal — to “choke” or “strangle” or “starve” it, just to mention a few of the less than tasteful metaphors I’ve encountered. I’d guess there are fluctuations inherent in an actually dying battery, especially as it nears the end, that are more random/interesting/chaotic. I’m just getting started with this one. I’ll report back. So far I’ve tried it with an analog tremolo pedal, and it worked quite nicely. Which is to say, it sounded horrible — in a good way. I want to try it on a delay pedal. I’m wondering what the most complicated / sensitive analog pedals there are that I might apply this to.