Glitchy, stuttering noise processor. That can also sound quite pretty.

Using two loopers, the Basement Show mangles and warps what it hears. It catches snippets and holds onto them for dear life, or spits them out with a snarl. Once it has them, it can use a bunch of sound-mangling–bit modulator and audio multiply, fed by bit crushers, the fed into a lo-fi faux reverb for a claustrophobic atmosphere–to mess up what you feed it.

Or you can feed it already messed up audio, using a footswitchable bit modulator that is pre-looper.

Named in honor of all the basement noise shows I went to as a youngster (the Unitarian church basement in Philly, anyone? Did I see Black Dice with you in ’05 or so?).

Caution: There’s no way to stop the loops right now. You can bypass the pedal, but they’ll still be running if you come back. Changing patches or turning off Zoia is about the only way to clear them. I ran into CPU/footswitch limitations, but if I figure out a clever way to do this, I’ll revise. Feel free to PM me some suggestions!

A note about the inputs & outputs:
Each looper listens to one channel, and it outputs to one channel (with a mono source, both loopers listen to the left channel). Without passing through the sound-manglers, which sums the signal to mono before creating a quasi-stereo image with its ‘reverb,’ the output is panned hard left and hard right. If you decide you don’t like that, just connect each output of the final mix to both outputs.

Only the left input cues the stutter-capture (it uses an envelope follower). You may be able to hear in the drum machine section of the sound clip that the stutter follows the kick drum (which is why the drum parts are panned hard).

SOUND CLIP:

0:00-2:13–Guitar. I turn on the bit modulator at ~0:20. Anywhere else, the rest of the noise if from the sound-manglers. I switch through different mixes, change the playback option, switch to random mode, noodle on guitar aimlessly and let the patch do the work.

2:14-4:13–Drum machine. A lot of the above, but with drums. Drums are panned hard to show how one channel can be used to process the other.

FOOTSWITCHES:

Left, bit modulator: latching, on/off (pre-loop capture). Pixel on the front page lights up when activated.

Middle, stutter playback: latching and momentary-ish

Each looper has six settings, but they are in a different order. Looper 1: normal speed, half speed, double speed, normal reverse, half speed reverse, double speed reverse. Looper 2: normal, normal reverse, double speed, double speed reverse, half speed, half speed reverse. (I could have these wrong. The only thing I’m certain of is that the one setting they share is the first one, where they both playback at normal speed.) TAPPING cycles through the settings. HOLDING DOWN on the stompswitch throws it into RANDOM mode, where it cycles between all the settings at random.

Right, noise-mangler mix: latching, only affects loops, 0% (clean) / 50% (some of messed up) / 100% (noisy shit)

There are some mixes you can adjust (I starred them), but this one… hell, I’ll be honest with you, I’m not even sure how I got it to work. I try not to mess with it.