Audio Damage Bitcom - Manual (Page 11)

Earlier we said that the lower bits correspond to the smaller details, so you might be wondering what happens
if you turn on just the bottom button. If you think that you’d hear just a teeny little signal, you’d be right,
except that Bitcom has another trick up its sleeve. Here’s what you get:
Not at all teeny, eh? What’s happening is that since the detail parts of the signal are necessarily much quieter
than the original, Bitcom looks at the bits that you’ve turned on and attempts to adjust the level of the output
signal to compensate. There’s nothing intelligent or graceful about how it does this, and the end result is
destruction of the signal’s dynamic range as well as its tone.
So, that’s what Bitcom does: different settings of the bits buttons produce different approximations of the
input signal. How the result sounds is not always readily predictable; Bitcom’s effect varies wildly with the
loudness, frequency, and pitch of the input signal. Combine this with a 16-stage sequencer, an internal tone
generator, and automatic and manual randomization, and Bitcom becomes a strange and wondrous source of
noise. Have an appropriate amount of fun.