Guilt Machine does not repeat your guitar. It remembers it incorrectly.
That sentence is the whole design brief. Most delays and reverbs are faithful, they give you back exactly what you played, just later or wetter. Guilt Machine is built to be unfaithful in a musical way: to take a clean take and turn it into a memory of itself.
Memory is not a copy
When you remember a moment, you do not replay a recording. The edges blur, some details vanish, others grow louder than they were. Guilt Machine treats sound the same way. Reverse delay, granular smear, pitch drift, a dark chamber, damping, degradation and collapse all work together to bend your signal into something that feels remembered rather than recorded.
One knob, one emotional state
At the centre is the Guilt macro. Turn it up and a single gesture moves all of those processes at once, like one emotional state taking over the sound. You are not balancing eight parameters. You are deciding how much guilt.
Six ways to fall apart
Six named modes shift the character of that collapse: Confession, Buried, Aftermath, Relapse, The Weight, Absolution. Each one is a different shade of the same idea, sound that decays with feeling.
Coming soon
Guilt Machine is almost ready. It is a dark, cinematic effect for guitar and anything else you feed it, with hand-illustrated light and dark themes. Read more and join the waitlist, you will get launch-day access, a free preset pack, and an early-bird discount.