The Bit Commander is a monophonic analog guitar synthesizer with four octaves of vintage square wave synth tones. Its no-nonsense interface makes it easy to add or subtract octaves to create a wide variety of sounds without having to dial in envelopes or oscillators. Ripping sub-octave thump, pulsing octave down, a lightly squared base tone, and a swelling transformer-based octave up all join together to make a single guitar sound like an army of old Tyme synths.

Controls

1. Level: Master volume
2. Filter: Tone control more highs clockwise, more warmth counterclockwise
3. Base: Squared input signal level
4. Sub: Two octaves down level
5. Down 1: One octave down level
6. Up 1: One octave up level

Suggested Settings

Ball crusher

Step up the front of the music with this nasty savagely guttural setting.

Face Melter

Follow monophonic riffs and bends perfectly. Neck pickup is recommended.

Bass Synthesizer Terrorizer

Transform your guitar or cheap keyboard into a wall of mammoth travesty. Feed this into a loop pedal for instant bass synthesizer riffs.

Ring Modulation Vacuum

Take every riff into the burning vortex of the black hole. The Star Gate has opened into the sonic beyond.

Features

Dimensions

• 4.75 x 2.50 x 2.25 in. (121 x 64 x 57 mm) with knobs

Current Draw

• 25 mA

Input Impedance

• 50 kO

Output Impedance

• <500 O

Switching

• This device is true bypass and uses electronic relay-based switching. Audio will not pass without power.

Power 

• This device takes a standard 9 volt DC power supply with a 2.1mm negative center barrel. We always recommend pedal-specific, transformer-isolated wall-wart power supplies or multiple isolated-output supplies. Pedals will make extra noise if there is ripple or unclean power. Switching-type power supplies, daisy chains and non-pedal specific power supplies do not filter dirty power as well and let through unwanted noise. DO NOT RUN AT HIGHER VOLTAGES!