The Pitch Grinder - Kickstarter!

aen · Post by **aen** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:34 pm

BacchusPaul wrote:How quickly or slowly can it play through the sequence?

Like, imperceptably fast, and as slow as you can tap your foot.

aen · Post by **aen** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:53 am

Shit you guys, I didn't realize there was so much conversation on this.

cobascis wrote:The is the best box design for a pedal I have ever seen. I would buy it without knowing what it does because that polar bear is so sick

THANKSSSS!!! I tried SO MANY fucking things, and then, as usual, I just reduced the whole fucking scope until just the big bad bear remained.

Thom wrote:
Ben79 wrote:Thought NeverCats was great too.

Well then you'll like the rest of the album, too! Can't wait to let it out.

gaybear wrote:
NickS wrote:Bloody hell. I'm expecting to hear this all over the place in the next few years.
that was my thought too.

amazing pedal

I really hope this catches on like The Great Destroyer did. It seems like when we do something really far out and brand new, it either kills, or it kills us.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:15 am

aen wrote:
BacchusPaul wrote:How quickly or slowly can it play through the sequence?
Like, imperceptably fast, and as slow as you can tap your foot.

Cool, so you could set this up to effectively make chords from a single note that you play into the box, that then comes out as a really quick repeating sequence of notes (kind of like how tapping sounds like chords). Can the sequence be reprogrammed on the fly without stopping the effect?

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:25 pm

Interesting effect, not something I've seen before. Is this done with a PIC microcontroller or Arduino or something else? Does the software do the pitch shifting or is that bit analog? I'm very tempted to get into Arduino stuff to test it's application in guitar effects. Like this cool kit:
ARDX starter kit

Aesthetics-wise, I don't like the 8 bare LEDs poking out of holes in the enclosure, or the stick-on label, but the bear design is cool.

aen · Post by **aen** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:40 pm

timhulio wrote:Interesting effect, not something I've seen before.

You're god damn right!

timhulio wrote: Is this done with a PIC microcontroller or Arduino

PIC!

timhulio wrote: Does the software do the pitch shifting

YES!

timhulio wrote: Aesthetics-wise, I don't like the 8 bare LEDs poking out of holes in the enclosure, or the stick-on label, but the bear design is cool.

First run will be screen printed. Possibly all of them.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 2:49 pm

I would like to get this and run it into my POG.

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 5:21 pm

ekwatts wrote:I would like to get this

Post by **Doog** » Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:14 pm

timhulio wrote:I'm very tempted to get into Arduino stuff to test it's application in guitar effects. Like this cool kit:
ARDX starter kit

I have one of those, did a Physical Computing module last year at school and used 2 in my final year project; dead cool little things.

aen · Post by **aen** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:45 pm

AND NOW YOU CAN GET EM!

weed_killer · Post by **weed_killer** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:54 pm

any pictures of the new shirt design?

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:46 pm

weed_killer wrote:any pictures of the new shirt design?

aen · Post by **aen** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 2:50 pm

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:10 pm

Aen, when people ring you and get put through to voicemail, they can't leave a message after the tone because THE TONE NEVER ENDS AT DWARFCRAFT HQ!!!

Yeah, I should probably leave...

aen · Post by **aen** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 8:29 pm

Thats pretty killer. The other awesome tagline I heard was
"At Dwarfcraft, we don't take feedback. We fucking make it."

aen · Post by **aen** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 3:29 pm

WOOT! As of now we're 63% funded! DAYUMM!
Also a "staff pick" at Kickstarter!
So er, grab a shirt or something, it would be awesome.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 5:35 pm

you

sweaty

aen · Post by **aen** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 5:50 pm

Its like a thousand degrees here from June thru august, I assumed it was similar in NY?

aen · Post by **aen** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 2:14 am

So, Im jizzing my pants over some of the shots I got for a music video on Wednesday, but I can't show you yet. Like, literally can't because I've got to clean out my computar so I have room for the files.
So I put some of my test shots together, cause they are also cool.

I'm using a Panasonic GH2. These shots were all taken with a 50mm Nikon lens. And I will not lie, this was also conceived as hype for my PitchGrinder.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 3:31 am

As ridiculous and immature as this sounds, the Pitch Grinder genuinely accounts for a good 57% of my daily motivation in jobhunting. It's roughly 43% depleted savings/impending rent, 50% sequencing pitch-shifts and 7% bear.
*puts calculator back in pocket*

aen · Post by **aen** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 4:27 am

I SHOULD HAVE PUT THE BEAR IN THE FUCKING VID.