A New Pitch-Reactive Fuzz Filter Arrives: Introducing the Mid-Fi Electronics Rise/OverRun
Mid-Fi Electronics has unveiled its latest creation, the Rise/OverRun, a fuzz-driven modulation pedal that reacts directly to the notes you play. Known for pushing beyond traditional effects design, Mid-Fi once again leans into unpredictability and expression, blending parallel filtering, pitch-based modulation, and fuzz into a single, highly interactive device.
The result is an effect that feels alive under your fingers, shifting its behavior depending on your playing style and frequency range.
How the Rise/OverRun Works
At its core, the Rise/OverRun begins by saturating your signal with a gritty layer of fuzz before routing it into two separate filters: a low-pass and a band-pass. From there, things get delightfully strange.
The band-pass filter is animated by a staircase-shaped modulation waveform, and the pedal determines the speed of that modulation by analyzing the predominant frequency of whatever you feed into it. Lower notes trigger a slower stepping motion, while higher notes ramp the modulation into faster, more frantic movement.
This gives players an unusual level of control, not through knobs or switches, but through their playing dynamics and pitch choices, creating sonically rich passages that shift on the fly.
Controls & User Interaction
The Rise/OverRun keeps its interface intentionally streamlined, giving players just enough control to shape the effect without diluting its organic, reactive nature.
The Bandwidth control sets the overall flavor and intensity of the filtering, allowing you to move from subtle tonal sculpting to more pronounced, harmonically rich sweeps.
Division determines the pedal's modulation speed range, effectively letting you widen or tighten how fast the staircase waveform can move as it responds to your playing.
Rounding things out, the Volume knob sets the output level, ensuring the pedal can sit comfortably in any signal chain or push an amp harder when needed.
Despite the complexity happening under the hood, the Rise/OverRun maintains a player-friendly feel. Its soft-switch, relay-based true bypass ensures quiet switching and clean signal integrity when the pedal is disengaged. Once activated, the sonic character becomes highly interactive and the modulation speed changes in real time based on the notes you play.
Rise/OverRun Sound & Musical Applications
The Rise/OverRun's sound is defined by the tension between its gritty fuzz foundation and the constantly shifting motion of its parallel filters. The staircase-shaped modulation creates a stepped, almost sequencer-like movement that feels both rhythmic and chaotic, depending on how you play.
Because the modulation speed is driven by your input pitch, you can slow the pedal into deep, lurching sweeps by playing lower notes or send it into rapid, twitchy motion by jumping into higher registers. This responsiveness gives the effect a sense of personality, almost like it's reacting back to you in real time.
In practice, the Rise/OverRun thrives in experimental and texture-driven contexts. Guitarists can use it to add evolving harmonic layers, synth-like sweeps, or glitch-leaning motion to otherwise static riffs. Ambient players will appreciate its ability to create shifting drones and atmospheric noise beds, while noise artists and electronic musicians can push it into unpredictable, jagged filtering for more aggressive sound design.
Whether placed at the beginning of a chain for raw tonal shaping or after other modulation and delay effects for cascading movement, the Rise/OverRun offers an expressive palette that rewards creative exploration and dynamic playing.
The Mid-Fi Electronics Rise/OverRun is now available on DeathCloud.