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Source Audio SA 280 Artifakt Lo-fi Elements

4.9 out of 5 stars from 8 customer ratings

Effect Pedal

  • Comprehensive selection of sought-after lo-fi effects, such as old vinyl replication, tape modulation and saturation, bit crushing, sample rate reduction, dark reverb and echo, filtering, compression, glitch and more
  • 7 Different effect engines: radio, tape, µVerb, crush, ladder, vinyl and glitch
  • 16 Presets (128 Presets per MIDI)
  • Complete MIDI control via 3.5 mm jack sockets MIDI In and Thru
  • USB Type-C port for connection to Neuro 3.0, the software from Source Audio for downloading presets and editing effects
  • True Bypass or Active Analogue selectable
  • Controls for Destruct, Filter, Mix, Vary, Effect selection, Mod
  • Selector switch for bandwidth, mod, preset switch
  • Two footswitches for activating/bypassing, scrolling through the presets and for a variety of other engine-specific functions
  • Status LEDs
  • Brushed, anodised aluminium housing
  • Input L/R: 2 x 6.3 mm mono jack
  • Outputs L/R 2 x 6.3 mm mono jack
  • 6.3 mm TRS expression input
  • USB connection: Type C
  • MIDI In and Thru: 3.5 mm TRS
  • Power supply via 9 V DC power supply unit, 2.1 x 5.5 mm barrel connector, polarity (-) inside (not included)
  • Current consumption: 200 mA
  • Dimensions (L x W x H): 114 x 70 x 51 mm
  • Weight: 450 g

Note: Battery operation not supported

Note Register your purchase at shop.warwick.de/en/warranty-registration for an extended warranty of 4 years.
  • Available since July 2024
  • Item number 595235
  • Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
  • Effect Types Lo-fi
4.666 kr
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Amazing Pedal - Info on Scroll mode / Preset switching
Docfrizzy 10.12.2025
Okay Fellas so the Pedal is amazing. This new Source Audio format is genius and any further pedals that feature this layout will also be winners. It's easy enough to get good sounds from the pedal itself and save those on a hardware level. The Software is amazing and gives you more than you can imagine - specifically on the Artifakt.

Essentially "Arti" DSP has several noise generators, a time based engine, LFOs, Ring Mods, Sample Rate Reduction, Overdrive, Distortion, EQ and Compressor (I am probably forgetting something) that all can be set up, and way more intuitively than you'd think. This pedal can convincingly do an insane amount of effects and Source Audio effect quality is top notch, even and especially with distortion, as the LA Lady proved to many.

BUT THIS IS NOT WHY I'M WRITING THIS. I was so bothered by one thing - when you want to switch presets with the foot switches you press both at the same time and enter scroll mode. Then you press the left and right buttons to preset up and down. So far so good. Now to get you out of scroll mode you have to press both buttons at the same time again. Now if you have your foot off the pedal and try to press both at the same time - the time window for the pedal registering a simultaneous press is very very small. You end up pressing just one button first in the eyes of the pedal, thus ending up a preset below or above the one you wanted.
TODAY I figured out the solution and it's a technique: When you end up on the preset you want, DON'T LIFT YOUR FOOT! Just keep the button that got you there pressed - which causes no problems or auto scrolling - and roll your foot on the other button. Hold a little moment, lift foot, done. It's actually super fast and reliable and this must be the intended use and how the people at Source Audio use it but nowhere is it described and this technique just made the pedal much more usable for me.
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Fabulous!
Aliomay 17.11.2024
This superb pedal has 7 effects engines which bring degraded /lofi sounds to whatever you put in. I use modular mainly, and the range of differences the pedal made to my tracks brought a smile to my face.
Absolutely love it, recommended.
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Umfangreiches Lo-Fi-Pedal, sehr guter Sound, viele Funktionen!
Soundflow1 03.09.2024
Ich suchte schon seit längerem nach einem guten Lo-Fi Pedal mit größerem Funktionsumfang, nun bin ich endlich fündig geworden.

Effektpedale mit Bitcrusher und Sample Rate Reduction gibt es zahlreiche am Markt. Da ich aber nicht mit Gitarre sondern mit Synthi arbeite hatte ich leider auch einige Probleme (u. A. Line level Signalstärke, etc.), insbesondere bei stärkerer Bit Reduktion.

Bei Source Audio bin ich nun endlich fündig geworden und sehr zufrieden!
Verarbeitung und Verpackung wie immer bei Source Audio sehr gut, gibt nichts zu beanstanden.

Die neue Neuro App funktioniert bei mir nun auch endlich unter Windows 11 und macht bis dato einen sehr guten Eindruck (Mobile App muss ich noch testen, sieht aber auf den ersten Blick gut aus). Hier lassen sich zahlreiche Details nochmal individuell einstellen, was den Funktionsumfang nochmals steigert. Die alte App ging leider gar nicht!

Zum Sound:
Sicherlich sind die Effekte digital, aber das auf einem qualitativ sehr hohen Niveau. Man merkt das hier einiges an Zeit und Arbeit reingesteckt wurde! Es lassen sich hier viele Sound-Kreationen erstellen bzw. Experimente durchführen was einfach Spass macht!

Ich hatte selbst diverse VHS-Rekorder, Tapedecks, alte Spielkonsolen, Plattenspieler, etc. und fühle mich immer einmal wieder in alte Zeiten zurück versetzt wenn das Pedal im Einsatz ist.

Ziel somit erreicht, das Pedal wird einen permanenten Platz in meiner Sammlung finden!
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Ulrich M. 26.08.2024
Ich bin sehr angetan von diesem Pedal. Es vereint die "Weirdness" von Chase Bliss-Pedalen in einer kompakten Einheit mit noch mehr Möglichkeiten. Es gibt mittlerweile genügend youtube-Videos, die das nachvollziehbar machen. Auch ganz "normale" Sounds sind damit möglich, MIDI-Funktionalität und die Möglichkeit per Neuro-App Presets aus dem Netz zu laden machen es für mich zu einem "Keeper"!
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