Deeply Customizable Bitcrusher
Ready for some serious sonic mangling? Throw Red Panda's Bitmap 2 on your pedalboard and prepare to explore an endless realm of digitized sounds! Easy-to-use controls offer near-limitless sound-shaping potential, with optional user presets locking in your favorite settings for instant recall. Crush gives you complete control over bit depth, taking you from 24 bits to 1 bit, while a Freq control next door adjusts the sampling rate from 48,000Hz to 110Hz. Rate and Depth knobs let you alter the LFO modulation rate and depth, respectively, while the Filter knob adjusts the 4-pole filter's cutoff frequency. Sweetwater guitarists had a great time experimenting with the Bitmap 2's selectable waveforms: pressing the Wave button toggles between triangle, square, and random shapes alongside wave shaping, wave folding, and wave window options. Perhaps best of all, the Bitmap 2 works with instruments of all kinds — including bass and synths — thanks to its Drive control for adjusting input gain. This feature is also ideal for guitarists switching from humbuckers to single-coil pickups and synth players looking to expand their sound with some bit-crushed flavor. Whatever your musical calling is, the Red Panda Bitmap 2 will surely inspire your next creations.
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Expanded control set meets the needs of modern players
While the Bitmap 2 offers undeniable sonic moldability on the surface, tapping into this impressive pedal's underbelly of modern optimizations expands its potential into the stratosphere. Its bypass switch can be programmed to either momentary or latching operation, with the aux switch assignable as either tap tempo or preset selection depending on your needs. Its four built-in user presets are expanded to a staggering 127 possible options via MIDI, accomplished through a configurable CTRL input for a MIDI port, expression pedal, and remote switch/tap. For even deeper tonal adjustability, connect the Bitmap 2 to your computer and access its web-based editor for altering presets and unlocking even more customization options.
Red Panda Bitmap 2 Reduction and Modulation Pedal Features:
- Stereo bitcrusher with fractional bit reduction and sample rate modulation
- Crush control takes you from 24 bits to 1 bit
- Freq control adjusts sampling rate from 48,000Hz–110Hz
- Filter adjusts the cutoff of the 4-pole filter
- Wave button cycles between triangle wave, square wave, random, wave folder, wave window, and wave shaper options
- Rate and Depth knobs control LFO modulation rate and depth, respectively
- Mix knob dials in your wet/dry mix
- Drive control accommodates single-coil and humbucking pickups as well as line-level signals
- Soft-touch bypass switch with configurable momentary or latching operation
- Aux footswitch assignable as tap tempo or preset selection
- Assignable CTRL port for expression pedal, MIDI port, or remote switch/tap
- 4 onboard user presets expandable to 127 via MIDI
- Web-based editor accesses hidden parameters and edits presets
