The DroneTrash is a new 2 in 1 pedal with the AirTrash running into the DroneTone MKIII which I am really enjoying. One input, one output, and once DC jack. Pedals can be run separately or the AirTrash into the DroneTone MKIII. The AirTrash uses soft-touch relay true bypass and the DroneTone MKIII uses hardwire true bypass.
The AirTrash is a pedal for guitar or bass that sounds like absolute garbage. I was breadboarding an idea and happened upon some absolutely sickening sounds, like really bad, but couldn’t stop playing it. I spent a lot of time trying to refine and improve it, make it less noisy, more controllable etc.. but these changes always ended up sucking the fun right out of it so decided let it be the simple disgusting beast that it is.
It “works well” with guitar or bass and usually sounds best with the guitar or bass plugged straight into it (first in the pedal chain), didn’t do much for me at all on synths or drum machines. It’s very sensitive to pick attack and input volume.
The blue knob controls the output level. I could not come up with words to properly describe what the red and yellow knobs do so I created those little icons in an attempt to illustrate what words could not describe.
A drone synthesizer for your pedalboard, the Drone Tone is a pitch and rate controllable square wave oscillator in a guitar pedal format.
It can be used stand-alone or with an instrument input, however, the instrument input is unaffected and is simply buffered and passed-through to the output jack. The mix control sets the volume of the square wave oscillator at the output jack.
MKIII adds onboard tap tempo, tempo sync input (0-5V), internal pitch range control, and top mounted jacks.
This pedal makes no sense to most people, probably because it is not a "guitar pedal" in the traditional sense... but it continues to be one of my favorite Mattoverse pedals. It's simple, fun, and I love tuning it to a pitch or key and noodling along. It also does weird things to the clipping on gain based pedals and is fun with delays, loopers, etc.. Check out the videos below to get some ideas of how I like to use it.
