Catalinbread Heliotrope Harmonic Pixelator bitcrusher

Basically, a Harmonic Pixelator is Catalinbread’s way of telling you this pedal is made up of bit crusher, octave, fuzz, ring modulator and dirty drive sounds, but they didn’t want to say all that each time, so they just made this up. It’s much easier to say, and sounds exotic and kinda futuristic, too. The controls start off with Resolution, which determines the duty cycle or ratio of on to off time of the carrier frequency, which Catalinbread compares to focusing the lens of a camera, making it as sharp or as blurry as you want. Sample Rate further adjusts the carrier frequency within the given range, while Gain adds in some compression and distortion, for fuzz-y and synth-y types of sounds. The lone toggle is a Hi/Lo switch, changing the frequency range of the carrier frequency, and Volume rounds things out by adjusting the overall output of the effect.

Gitar - bass - synth