Running for 78

More messed up beauty

Loads of glitchy, skipping, warbling sounds from this one. I really like pedals that muss up the input and make it sound broken, so I bought this one. It's wonderful, and even more musical than I expected (from online demos), but still with a grittiness to the sound.

Another Great Ezhi&Aka Pedal

Another outstanding Ezhi & Aka pedal — Running for 78. Like their other designs, it leans heavily into experimentation, but in a way that stays musical and playable. The core glitch engine recreates old portable CD-player skip behavior, producing stutters, dropouts, pitch warbles, and crushed digital artifacts that feel organic rather than static. The built-in IR motion sensor and envelope follower let your playing dynamics and physical movement directly control the glitch behavior, making it incredibly performative and alive. These pedals are fairly hard to track down, so it’s great to have a shop that carries their inventory. Really appreciate the excellent customer service and flexibility with shipping — smooth experience end to end.

CD-skipping chaos meets glitchy destruction

Running for 78 isn’t your typical do-weird box. It’s a CD skip / glitch / sample rate reducer pedal, built around a 12-bit obsolete delay chip and a 256kbit memory IC — all to recreate the sound of a portable CD player skipping as you sprinted for the bus, Discman bouncing on your belt. The result? Crushed fidelity, signal destruction, and glitchy modulation that can be controlled either by envelope or by waving your foot over the built-in IR sensor. The pedal slices your signal into stuttering, broken bits — turning riffs into broken loops, rhythms into spasms. At lower settings, it delivers subtle lo-fi tone degradation. Push it, and it devolves into beautiful sonic anarchy. Notes collapse, repeat, skip, or fall apart depending on your dynamics or motion. A pure example of experimental design — it’s reactive, chaotic, and strangely musical in all the wrong ways.