You can lace your signature guitar sound with some truly epic farts

October 5, 2021 8:16 AM

The Fart Pedal
posted by Stark (29 comments total)

It's fairly common in pedals to have a wet/dry control, but this might be the best use of one.
posted by MtDewd at 8:38 AM on October 5, 2021 [14 favorites]

See also " fart mode " in Tesla cars.
posted by lalochezia at 8:51 AM on October 5, 2021

It wasn't on Superfuzz Bigmuff, sadly, but Mudhoney has paddled down this river before.
posted by miles per flower at 8:54 AM on October 5, 2021

But my playing already stinks.
posted by uncleozzy at 8:57 AM on October 5, 2021 [5 favorites]

I should mention that I think this review really gets to the bottom of why this might be successful.
posted by Stark at 9:03 AM on October 5, 2021 [4 favorites]

So the videos of the guy playing are fake right? Or does this pedal not allow very precise control of the gassy sounds?
posted by The_Vegetables at 9:17 AM on October 5, 2021

I assume that any incoming signal is just triggering random fart sounds. You play, you get some farts. you stop playing, and the farts stop.
posted by jonathanhughes at 9:23 AM on October 5, 2021 [3 favorites]

Pepsi Brown
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 9:41 AM on October 5, 2021 [1 favorite]

I'm glad the reviewers enjoyed the surprise but I admit I am sad the fart noises are not tuned to the input. A real missed opportunity for some puns here, like 'Fartier transforms.'
posted by pwnguin at 9:43 AM on October 5, 2021 [17 favorites]

Yeah I was assuming it would give you some control over pitch/dynamics based on input... random fart sounds isn't nearly as fun.
posted by saladin at 9:44 AM on October 5, 2021 [2 favorites]

I'm pretty sure Metafilter has a general policy against linking Kickstarters, and I'm pretty sure this is the perfect exception to be allowed to stand.
posted by biogeo at 10:18 AM on October 5, 2021 [3 favorites]

Or does this pedal not allow very precise control of the gassy sounds?

For added verisimilitude.
posted by biogeo at 10:19 AM on October 5, 2021

Eagerly awaiting My Bloody Valentine's new Poo Gaze album.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 10:20 AM on October 5, 2021 [5 favorites]

I know this guy! He's a friend of my brother's wife. Good guy. Haven't met in person but I've met him online. He always has interesting projects and videos.
posted by SoberHighland at 10:23 AM on October 5, 2021 [1 favorite]

Shouldn't be that hard, guitars only have like six strings each tuned and fingered while played. Just throw a FFT at it to pick out the six frequencies, take them though some e to the minus i tau to map them to modulo ranges that fit the inputs of your fart generation circuitry. A strum sets the basic parameters then slide and pluck to modify the sound to your heart's desire.

I didn't think the video was that helpful because you can't really tell what the guitar was actually playing, and it wasn't just the guitar feed there were like cymbals in there which came through rather clear. How would one know that what the guitar was playing did or didn't control the final sound?

Or it could just be a box that filters out guitar and plays random fart sounds. Guess somebody will have to take one apart to find out.
posted by zengargoyle at 10:33 AM on October 5, 2021 [3 favorites]

Yeah I was assuming it would give you some control over pitch/dynamics based on input... random fart sounds isn't nearly as fun.

Although it does seem like a...safer way to gamble on a fart, so to speak.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 10:39 AM on October 5, 2021 [1 favorite]

I don't know. Watching that guy jam, and having the sound be so asynchronous was pretty hilarious. Gives new meaning to "shred".
posted by Carmody'sPrize at 10:53 AM on October 5, 2021 [3 favorites]

Weird. I just saw this video yesterday, and I assumed it was going to be the same video, but it wasn't. Now I'm wondering how many farty guitar videos there are in the world and realizing it's probably a lot more than I would have expected.
posted by willnot at 11:13 AM on October 5, 2021 [1 favorite]

Demo starts at about 2:45 in the video
posted by kurumi at 11:14 AM on October 5, 2021 [1 favorite]

If I plug my bass into it can I play the brown note?
posted by ZenMasterThis at 11:37 AM on October 5, 2021 [1 favorite]

My first thought after watching the video was "scam/performance art project," so I still can't tell if this thing is actually real or if everyone who orders one is getting a box full of rocks that doesn't do anything it promises to do, or indeed output any kind of sound at all.
posted by chrominance at 12:43 PM on October 5, 2021 [3 favorites]

I am so getting this. I somehow have a feeling that jscalzi has already ordered a prototype.
posted by Ber at 1:01 PM on October 5, 2021

Guess somebody will have to take one apart to find out.

Maybe I've watched way too many Cronenberg films, but I'm imagining a bunch of unsettling scenarios around what lurks inside.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 2:20 PM on October 5, 2021 [1 favorite]

Like, maybe The Tingler ?
posted by y2karl at 3:00 PM on October 5, 2021 [1 favorite]

Look Mum No Computer made a synth that actually makes farting sounds.
posted by awfurby at 5:59 PM on October 5, 2021 [2 favorites]

Like, maybe The Tingler ?

I'm mainly worried that if I open the chassis of that pedal it'll tell me it's my case officer.
posted by mandolin conspiracy at 7:00 PM on October 5, 2021

honestly kind of upset that it just seems to play random fart noises rather than actually adapting the audio played into it in some way
posted by DoctorFedora at 1:32 AM on October 6, 2021 [2 favorites]

Too bad Eddie's not around to see the Brown Sound finally perfected. Would love to hear this thing do an Eruption. I mean, this is Mean Streaks. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 3:03 PM on October 6, 2021 [1 favorite]

Emily Hopkins tries out an unmarked one with a harp
posted by flabdablet at 4:43 AM on October 18, 2021 [1 favorite]