JHS Pedals - 3 Series Bit Crusher

With the JHS Pedals 3 Series Bit Crusher, your sound can take a radically digital turn, ranging from lo-fi textures and electronic tones to surprising glitch effects. Its circuitry reduces the bit depth and sample rate to progressively distort the signal, resulting in aggressive, choppy sounds. It’s the ideal playground for breaking away from the usual effects and adding real character to your riffs, basslines or sonic experiments.

The Crush control adjusts the resolution, ranging from an almost pristine sound to extreme degradation with a harsh, jagged character. Sample Rate controls the sample rate: by lowering it, you’ll bring out strange harmonics, metallic tones and increasingly pronounced digital artefacts. The Filter knob then refines the result, whilst the Type selector lets you choose between a warm low-pass filter—particularly suited to bass—and a filter that emphasises the mid-range to recreate a tone reminiscent of the small speaker on a portable hi-fi.

Manufactured by JHS Pedals in Kansas City, Missouri, this pedal from the 3 Series range combines user-friendly controls with a particularly original digital design. This allows you to explore subtle textures or push the settings to extreme sounds, depending on the vibe you’re after. It operates on a centre-negative 9 V DC power supply and draws 65 mA.