Fairfield Circuitry's new Roger That FM Demodulating Distortion nicely underlines the current trend for Imperfection

As contemporary mainstream music output becomes ever more polished there is a growing trend towards dissonance and imperfections at the same time. We’ve seen a number of recent pedals with White Noise features and/or scramble type filters - that somewhat deliberately ’mess up’ your sound!

The recent Beautiful Noises Exploder is just one such example, and Fairfield Circuitry have somewhat carried that sort of thing forward with AM / FM Radio Frequency / RFI Modulation on their new Roger That pedal - so that it sounds like you’re getting a really bad reception of some faraway radio station.

Controls - Shift (Tracking Accuracy / Filter / Interference), Drive (Input Gain), Wet (Wet Level), Dry (Dry Level), R (Range) : 1 Standard / 2 Extended, F (Filter) : On (300Hz - 3kHz Voice Filter) / Off, T (Tune CV Input), Tune (Scramble / Distort).

The Tune, Shift and Drive controls are particularly interactive - and where the R gives you a slightly different register to play with.

You basically ’Tune’ in your dissonance, and further exaggerate that with the Shift and Drive controls - taking you from barely there artefacts and glitches to full-blown ’ugly’ distortion. Where ’ugly’ is the nature of the day really.

Supposedly the ’Tune’ knob in particular is incredibly sensitive - and micro-movements yield significant changes!

I’ve always referred to myself as a ’Noise Maker’ and this Roger That is exactly the sort of thing I go for.

It’s a touch pricy at $389.00 CAD on the Fairfield Circuitry Webstore - which translates to £299 at Andertons - where I will most likely get mine from - I have some loyalty points I can use to make it a little less painful on the wallet!

As always I would have preferred this in vertical orientation - but I’m actually pretty fine with it as is - and it is already earmarked for taking over the Goosoniqueworx Kult slot (#25). Will be cool to have that and the Beautiful Noises Exploder in the chain at the same time!

What about you dear readers - anyone else into imperfect and harsher sounds!?!

FEATURES :

• FET pre-amp
• CV on TUNE
  RFI/EMI approximator
• FM/AM radio quality reducer
• Volatile and unpredictable distortion
• Noise, pop, crackle and squeal generator
• True Bypass