Noise EngineeringDystorpia Fuzz + Distortion Pedal

Noise Engineering Dystorpia

Dystorpia is a digital overdrive and fuzz pedal from Noise Engineering, bringing their characteristic taste for brutal digital distortion to pedal boards everywhere. Having spent many years refining their arsenal of digital saturation tools in Eurorack and plugin formats, Dystorpia is here to offer new flavors of tonal destruction perfect for guitar, bass, synths, and beyond.

Noise Engineering has imbued Dystorpia with two styles of complementary saturation. Fold waves in on themselves to derive richer waveforms with the control named—you guessed it, Fold—and create further wave distortions with rectification using Pura. A Gain control adjusts input gain to control the depth of saturation. Blend mixes between the dry and wet signal, with a subtle saturation applied to the input signal for a more glued-together mix.

To wrangle in all these saturated frequencies, Dystorpia includes a sweepable mid-band boost as well as a tone control which tilts the high or low frequencies of the output signal. At the top of the tone control, a mid-scoop is applied, giving ample room to experiment with the mid boost. The Doom switch offers two modes of suboctave generation to amplify the low-end, both a normal octave below and a gritty, blown-speaker suboctave effect.

Aside from distorted digital tones, Noise Engineering is also known for its convenient implementation of performative controls, and in this respect Dystorpia is no exception. The right footswitch is a bypass for the effect, while the left switch gives you a freeze function in both latching and momentary styles, perfect for huge, noisy transitions, soloing over a drone pitch, and more. The tone control can be adjusted with an expression pedal input for wah effects. Finally, the ENV switch offers DYN and GATE modes. DYN controls the output level in relation to the input level for consistent saturation tone with dynamic playability. Gate adds a noise gate, keeping the output quiet when the input signal is low.

With a wide timbral range of tonal destruction and multiple performative controls, Dystorpia from Noise Engineering is here to offer dystopian distortion to pedalboards all across the musical wasteland.

Dystorpia Features

• Digital overdrive/fuzz pedal with freeze effect
• Gain adjusts input level to control saturation amount
• Wavefolding with Fold and rectification with Pura works together for complimentary, flexible distortion tones
• Blend knob mixes between dry and wet signal
• Mid Band control adjusts the frequency for a mid-boost
• Tone control affects the overall frequency tilt of the output signal from low emphasis to high
• Tone adds a mid-scoop option when knob is fully clockwise, emphasizing the mid-boost
• Expression pedal input for Tone control
• Doom switch adds suboctave and saturated suboctave for increased low-end
• ENV switch offers DYN and GATE modes for amplitude control
• DYN lets the input amplitude control the output level
• Gate applies a noise gate that drops the output level when input level is low
• Left footswitch freezes the incoming audio for performative drones
• Right footswitch bypasses distortion effect