Okay its not a turd.  But for something thats designed to annihilate your guitar’s sound like the Incredible Hulk on a coke bender, I sure chose a classy way to package it up.  This finish looks like fine English leather and the insides sound like a constipated tauntaun.  Ahh…it must be a Noise Swash.

The Noise Swash circuit, at its heart, doesnt look too much different then a standard distortion pedal.  Its not far off from something like a ProCo RAT, but imagine that you took one and added way too many controls.  Instead of a normal, healthy distortion unit, this one lets you starve the whole thing of power, shunt various parts in and out of the circuit, and tweak all sorts of little instabilities which in total amounts to weird, glitchy sounds, and sometimes just making sound on its own.  ZANY.

Controls are: (upper row) Power starve, Noisegate, Swash, Tone, Volume, (lower row) pre-gain, post-gain, pre clipping on/off, post clipping on/off, oscillator on/off, oscillator frequency

This was a rip on the 4MS Noise Swash pedal for my Flickr friend, Evan.  He requested it as he seems to do a lot of noise/glitch/electronic kind of music.  I obliged, not knowing exactly what was going to come of it.  When I got it built up I was honestly kinda worried because it was *too* weird.  Thing was all glitching and going bonkers on its own….not what I normally like to hear in a pedal, but I gave it a shot and sent it to him.  Dude loved it.  Go figure.