Description
The Mainframe puts two classic lo-fi destruction tools under one footswitch: sample rate reduction (48kHz down to 110Hz) and bit depth reduction (24-bit down to 1-bit). Run them together or independently to travel from barely-there texture to signal that’s nearly unrecognizable next to your dry tone. Because the two controls interact, you get a much wider palette than a single-knob crusher — everything from crunchy, degraded chords to glitchy, aliased chaos that sits well after fuzz or before a delay for warped, broken-up repeats.
- Sample Rate Reduction: 48kHz to 110Hz
- Bit Depth Reduction: 24-bit to 1-bit
- Selectable High/Low/Band-Pass filter to sculpt the artifacts
- Sample Rate Tuning Mode locks the sample rate to your input pitch (or a set interval above it), so the crush tracks the key you’re playing in real time
- Secondary knob parameters for finer control over the effect
- Programmable preset, or assign an external expression pedal to any combination of knobs for live morphing
- High quality buffered bypass with silent switching — safe to leave on for the whole set without tone loss
- Power supply included
On a board, the Mainframe rewards experimentation with placement: early in the chain it colors your core tone with harmonic grit, while placed after modulation or drive it can shred an otherwise clean signal into something far more aggressive. The Sample Rate Tuning Mode in particular makes it easy to keep the crush musical instead of just noisy, adapting the artifacts to whatever you’re actually playing.
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