Bitcrushing fuzz can be digital! That’s sort of the point

Also this is sort of an interesting distortion that’s digital called the Soundblox Multiwave Distortion- it works on a principle not used in any analog distortions, so it sounds kind of unique instead of lamely imitating anything. I’m not a huge fan of the sound, but my point is that digital could be used to achieve a fuzz tone that couldn’t be achieved before. Maybe a digital polyphonic PWM fuzz could be done. I don’t know.

Here’s what Mike Matthews had to say in an interview about the SMMH:

Digital makes sense for time-based effects, but do you see non time-based effects entering this realm in the future?
To a certain degree I do. Consider what we have out already — the POG and the HOG are both non-time-based effects that are completely digital. They are both basically pitch shifters, so they’re unique compared to what’s out there. Even though EH will probably have a finger in every sort of technology — tubes, transistors and digital — I definitely see us heading in a direction where we’ll be writing more software for our DSPs, and the software won’t necessarily be delays, flangers or choruses, but other interesting effects that are mathematically intensive and therefore hard to produce in the analog world.

Do you think distortion effects and overdrives will remain analog or do you ever see that going digital, too?
I do see it going digital, but not 100 percent. We’ll still be making analog distortions like the Big Muff, the Muff Overdrive, the Metal Muff and the English Muff’n. Tube and transistor distortions need to use analog circuitry for that particular sound. We don’t really have much interest in modeling something like the Big Muff or coming up with a digital version of it, but we would be interested in coming up with a different type of distortion that can only be done digitally.

exactly!

turn your pedal on and the bypass is irrelevant!

It blows my mind how Hendrix, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, or Bob Marley ever made it through an entire show without having True Bypass, Buffers, or Switching Systems. They must have been playing air guitar all those years.

I think the thing is that there are some pedals with notoriously bad bypass. I kicked them all off of my board when I began to notice that the delay bleed, and that I had really low headroom. If I picked hard enough the buffers would distort in a really ugly way.

Also Crybaby GCB-95. I had one. The buffer was AWFUL.

But the EHX pedals that I have that are buffered have really great bypass. My clean sound is awesome, and I have no volume drops.

The SMMH has buffered bypass as far as I know.