Lossy guitar pedal

Goodhertz partnered with Chase Bliss to bring their popular audio software plugin, Lossy, to the pedal format. A description of the pedal from the Chase Bliss website reads:

Lossy captures the special kind of degradation that happens to digital audio when it’s shrunk, transferred, and compromised.

Streaming music on a 56k modem, an MP3 ripped from a CD-R, a viral video from 2007 played through a cellphone.

All the nasty and beautiful mistakes of heavily deconstructed digital audio in an easy-to-tweak real-time pedal.

VCTR Mono is used in the small text, labeling the controls. Poppins, the brand typeface for Chase Bliss, is used one some of the other labeling on the side of the pedal, as well as the logo.

The Lossy logo is custom drawn by Rob Stenson, who describes the process:

We’ve used a pixel version of that logo for the Lossy plugin for a long time, and for the pedal I wrote some more Python code to transform it (outlining, blurring, then autotracing with potrace). I originally made the pixel version of the logo myself, based on the title on devonwho’s Lyon album cover. I thought the album cover was custom lettering, but years later I found it used an actual font (either “Italic 08_55” or “Italic 08_56”, not sure which, both listed here), and that my recreation of L, O, S, and Y were pretty dang close to the original (not hard to do when it’s a pixel font).

The Goodhertz logo is also custom. Rob Stenson describes its history:

James Edmondson (OH no Type) did the original Goodhertz logo (which is a riff on an early Motown logo), but I transformed that for the pedal w/ some Python code (I “flattened” it with the FlattenPen).