Showing Off Glitch Cloud’s Haze Pedal
I recently had the opportunity to record some video to demonstrate the capabilities of Glitch Cloud Audio’s Haze pedal.
On their website, Glitch Cloud shares a helpful description of what this pedal exactly does:
“Haze is a generative composer that transforms sound into texture. Skips, stutters, and fluid time become rhythm and motion. Feed it a loop. Plug in an instrument. Let it mutate for hours.”
This pedal had steepest learning curve of any I’ve used so far, but the rewards were powerful and moving.
Haze repeats and chops fragments and phrases in a way I was completely unfamiliar with. Over and over again, I kept playing too many notes, expecting the trails to fade and need to be replaced. Wrong.
Everything changed when Seth, the pedal’s creator, said, “Each note is its own world”.
Instantly, I started thinking in terms of individual notes or chords as a splash of paint in an Abstract Expressionist work. This splash then evolves and expands of its own accord before unceremoniously beginning to decay. Perhaps even more accurately, it was like painting on a Buddha Board.
The robust array of knobs and switches leads to an astounding array of sonic possibilities. Octave changes, 4th interval shifts, freezing a set of sounds (and then being able to solo over it), boosts, changing the recording time frames, the Haze lofi switch, and more allow you to create your musical landscape.
Check out the video below and get yours at https://glitchcloud.us/!
