EarthQuaker Devices Data Corrupter - What To Know & Where To Buy

It feeds your input to the signal harvester in its original octave (Unison), one octave down (-1) or two octaves down (-2) for maximum compatibility with your preferred instrument and frequency register. Design Notes This device takes its inspiration from the Electrax Synthax and the “Basic Frequency Synthesizer” by Ray Marston. Neither of these were really intended to be guitar effect pedals and a lot of work went into creating the Data Corrupter to provide excellent tracking and long sustain. We think you’ll find it more expressive and accurate than pretty much any other PLL based effect pedal around. Nerd Talk The heart of this pedal is based around a CMOS Phase Locked Loop (PLL) IC. In a nutshell, the PLL takes your input signal and compares its phase and frequency against an oscillator, generates an output proportional to their difference then feeds it back to the oscillator. Pretty cool, right? This synthesized frequency is referred to as the Master Oscillator on the Data Corrupter. Takes your input signal and brutally amplifies it into a crushing square wave fuzz tone That tone is then multiplied, divided and modulated to create a wild, yet repeatable, three-voice guitar synthesizer The Data Corrupter provides excellent tracking and long sustain More expressive and accurate than pretty much any other PLL based effect pedal around Made with care by human hands in Akron, Ohio