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EarthQuaker Devices Bit Commander V2 Analog Octave Synth Pedal

Monophonic Analog Guitar Synthesizer Pedal
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Bit Commander V2 Monophonic Analog Guitar Synthesizer Pedal with Patch Cables

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Transform Your Guitar into a Mono Synth

Relive the glory days of primitive mono synths and nostalgic chiptune-y leads! The Bit Commander V2 pedal blends your guitar or bass signal with sub-octave rumble and octave-up shriek for some pronounced effects. Flip to your neck pickup to play single notes. Above the seventh fret, the Bit Commander V2 yields tight and predictable results. Below that, tracking gets a bit volatile, resulting in all kinds of glitching, stuttering fun. At Sweetwater, we've found this pedal pairs great with fuzz for splatty Jack White textures and deep, earth-moving bass. And the Bit Commander V2 pedal monophonic analog guitar synthesizer pedal features soft-touch relay-based switching for silent operation.

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EarthQuaker Devices Bit Commander V2 Pedal Features:

  • Blends your guitar or bass signal with sub-octave rumble and octave-up shriek
  • Use your neck pickup for accurate tracking of single notes
  • Yields tight and predictable tracking above the 7th fret
  • Below the 7th fret yields glitching, stuttering effects
  • Pairs great with fuzz for splatty textures and deep, earth-moving bass
  • Soft-touch relay-based switching for silent operation

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Tech Specs

  • Pedal Type: Four voice Octave synth
  • Analog/Digital: Analog
  • Inputs: 1 x 1/4" (instrument)
  • Outputs: 1 x 1/4"
  • True Bypass: Yes
  • Power Source: 9V DC transformer isolated power supply (sold separately)
  • Power Usage: 25mA
  • Height: 2.25" with knobs
  • Width: 2.50"
  • Depth: 4.75"
  • Weight: 0.6 lbs.
  • Manufacturer Part Number: Bit Commander V2

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Awesome synth pedal

So I"m just gonna say I love this thing. Got it last weekend at gearfest, knew I had to have one after hearing it demoed. Haven"t been able to remove it from my signal chain yet. It"s a mono synth with some lovely dirtiness to it. Makes me think of dead weather a little bit, that gnarly fuzzy noise is just beautiful. Handles single coils, lipstick pups and buckers equally well - have really enjoyed a tele through it most on the neck pup through a cheapo fender vaporizer amp. I"m sure the neighbors appreciate the amount of time I spend tweaking this thing - it is loud and low!
by Jacob from Auburn, IN on
Music background: 21 years guitar, 10+ years home recording

Love it

This pedal is quirky as hell and I love it. Don't buy it expecting something super clean and perfectly tracking - expect a gnarly weird analog experience and enjoy!

The tracking on bass on the "Down" signal (1 octave down) is a little funky once you get down to a low D or so, but I find if I pluck over the fingerboard or otherwise reduce incoming high end, it cleans up a lot. I actually really like the occasional tracking glitches, it doesn't sound bad, you just get unexpected octave changes.
by Josh Fossgreen on
Music background: Bass player + teacher

Crazy pedal

This pedal is not for the traditionally minded musician. It has a mind of it's own as it does what it wants. All of the bottom knobs create a pretty unique sound which makes for a ton of tonal options and the filter knob basically brightens and darkens the tone to my ear. I wouldn't call this a bit crusher as the name may imply, and it's not an octave pedal, it's a goofy synth pedal that doesn't set itself up like a synth. It's an EQD pedal so it's hard to describe what it does, but you know it's gonna be awesome. If you're ok with the notes holding a little bit after you anticipate, then I say give this a go. It's a fun piece of equipment.
by Eddie on

Nice textures -- need something to boost your volume though

Picked this up at the Sweetwater Retail store. Pretty cool little pedal, I've wanted a synth/bit crushing pedal.

Based on my research this is all Analog which would be a Synth as opposed to Bit Crusher. At minimum bit crushing requires a digital chip loaded with code to manage the conversion of bit depth of the audio input. Some of the bit crushers out there are pretty crazy and require tons of tweaking to get usable sounds that don't make your head want to explode. This one was pretty easy to tweak and get some cool tones right away.

My goal with this pedal to give me some additional textures, which it definitely accomplishes. I've ran it in front of delays, echos, vibratos, overdrives (do overdrives last, I had little success).

The one complaint I have is that you absolutely must run a signal booster in front of it. Compressor, volume, EQ, etc. I ran it with some high powered passives including a JB and SH-5 and the pedal reacts badly to a straight passive signal. It seems to require a certain level of volume to process the signal. Without a volume boost, the bass strings can sound very flubby. The treble strings sometimes don't actually pick up for processing. If you have a dynamic picking attack, and most of us do, it'll kill your tone. Sustain? Forget about it. Chords? They sounded dead and mushy.

However, if you can push a stronger signal to it, it changes the pedal drastically. It'll sound so much better. Much thicker, more full. More sustain, but not as much as I'd like. Chording becomes an option, palm muting actually sounds good, and you can utilize some pick attack. It was a night and day difference for me. I would consider some type of output boost a necessity.

That said, the level my compressor has to output to keep things where I want them is a little hissy. I'll have to play with an EQ and Noisegate as well.

I consider this all fairly minor though. Love the pedal and what it's able to do.



I bought this as a way to get in to
by Justin Rounds from Troy, OH on
Music background: Hobbyist, have an in-house studio and pretty sweet guitar setup. 20+ years of guitar.

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Logan Miller

I wanted an octave pedal that didn't sound like an organ or have an odd 'ringing' to it, since I needed to hold the bass line with my guitar on a few songs. The Bit Commander was a perfect fit for that, and can get you from light overdrive-y tones to snarley octave up lead sounds and deep, aggressive bass notes. My favorite part of all of this is the synthy undertone that plays really nicely with other drive and gain-based pedals
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