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The Master Oscillator is the central nervous system at the heart of the Data Corrupter’s cyberpunk hive mind. 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. Once you’ve chosen your input octave, then the Data Corrupter will perform its calculations and spit out an analog synthesized frequency, which can be pitch-bent for portamento or vibrato sounds by the Frequency Modulator! From there, you can blend in one of eight Subharmonic intervals up to three octaves below the input and mix in a square wave fuzz tone for maximum data corruption.
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. This then causes the oscillator to lock onto the input signal and generate a synthesized frequency. Pretty cool, right? This synthesized frequency is referred to as the Master Oscillator on the Data Corrupter.
Marcus chacona 111
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2024
Amazeing.
Jacob Laqua
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2021
I love this thing but it's not something you can just plug in and play something you had in mind beforehand. I play a lot of noisy space art punk so this immediately caught my attention looking for an additional synth to add to my loadout.I had written a pretty fast descending hammer on riff and I thought the pedal would be perfect for it - but it wasn't at all. Any simultaneous notes will get mangled into a wet pixelated fart / screech when trying to use all three aspects of the ring. You can tone things down and play get some middling chords to come out somewhat intentional, but there's no reason to pick this over a simple synth or even pitch shifter in that case.It shines when you stop trying to force your music into and rather write with the pedal in mind. You can have a hell of a lot of control over the oscillator exponentially reacting to your playing speed, it's incredibly controllable for something that modulates based off of the notes you had previously fed into it. This is awesome for doing something like a gradual tempo increase that actually alters the tone and color of what you're playing in a predictable way.That being said I would love to see the rate knob split to a separate attack so that you could control both the tracking and the dive of the synth independently. I think this would increase the tracking accuracy as well. I haven't mastered this thing by any means but I've got a couple new tracks in the works that would have been impossible live without it.Also there is no dry out so you're going to want a split at some point before this on your chain. That being said it feels weird to need to split your dry only to put it back through the same amp which sounds GREAT but again, a mix knob or even a bypass would drastically improve the usability and add some common sense convenience to what is an AMAZINGLY dynamic pedal - the only issue is the dynamics launch into another dimension completely which makes it harder to use than it needs to be.5 stars for concept, 5 stars for the art this thing can pump out, 3 for usability.
Cristian
Reviewed in Mexico on October 26, 2021
Si te gusta hacer Noise (y si no también) este pedal es la mejor opción...Es un increíble octavador/harmonizador para tocar riffs un poco fuera de lo común
Adam
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2021
If you’re into freaky fantastic fuzz, then the Data Corrupter is for you. There is a brief learning curve, but once you understand how things work, it’s hours of fun dialing in new, and bizarre sounds. I’m a big fuzz fan, and I find no other fuzz pedal can do what this pedal does. God bless Earthquaker Devices for always thinking outside the box.
Cole Mud
Reviewed in Canada on February 10, 2020
Awesome, weird pedal, thanks a bunch. Been using it in heavy electronic maddness.
Super Dad
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 8, 2020
This is a crazy distortion pedal, there are many YouTube vids available that show this off but to summarize if you want a crazy cool unique effect get this, just don't expect subtle.
Smokey Madpot
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2019
Sweet noise maker. You can set octaves going up and down to get freaky sound with these pedal.
Daniel B.
Reviewed in Spain on July 16, 2019
Corrompe la data de tu guitarra sacándole sonidos de video juegos, robots y rayos laser. Todo acompañado de un fuzz. Brutal!
Megan
Reviewed in Canada on March 8, 2019
Bought as a gift and the receiver cant get enough of this pedal
Topha
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2019
It's stated in the title but if you are not aware of what "monophonic phase lock loop" is, let me tell you about it. That basically translates to "this pedal is a PITA to tame." If your tone is bright or you are playing a chord it will glitch out. The tracking is not the absolute worst I've encountered but there are much better pedals out there that do this same thing. You will find that slightly muting your notes helps, turning your guitar's tone all the way down and only using the neck pickup makes it respond better - go as dark as possible to tame this thing. The sound is glitchy and unpredictable and that may be what you need but I find that my Pigtronics Mothership 2 does this pedal's sound without all the headache.
Dan
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2018
This is my favorite pedal that I have ever owned, I've had it for a few months now. You can get such a variety of sounds out of it that no demo video I've seen does it justice. It takes a while to really understand how it works and how to "tame it" so to speak-- to be able to control the wacky sounds with your playing as opposed to letting the sounds control you, but once you figure it out you will have a really cool tool in your arsenal. At its very basic core it is essentially an octave/fuzz pedal--but it's much more than just that. You can dial it down and just use it as such--or dial it up and use it as a crazy sound effect. The effect is touch sensitive (thus my comment about taming it) and it has loads of sustain. It is constructed well. There are a lot of combinations of settings you can get with the seven knobs (not counting level) and two switches and when you dial in a sound that you really dig you probably won't remember how to find it again, so what I've been doing is to take a photo for later reference. My only complaint is the blinding brightness of the light--it looks cool but is not practical in this case. Because there are so many parameters on this pedal you need to be able to read the words and numbers when making adjustments and it's like someone shining a flashlight in your face so you can't see them. I would prefer an old-fashioned red led light on this one. Otherwise this is a fantastic pedal, particularly if you like bizarre sounds.
Alex
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2017
I am enjoying this pedal. It’s bit strange, but musical. Build quality is top notch.
Clayton T. Johnston
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2017
If there were 10 stars instead of 5 I'd rate this pedal at 15. This pedal kicks massive! Bought it two weeks ago, can't stop playing on it. Drives endless creativity. NOT FOR GUITAR PURISTS!!! If you like crazy insane (but stable and repeatable) synthy sounds,this is your pedal. I love it. This is a must play pedal!
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