The Guilt Device
// The Guilt Device inside your DAW
// From Piruz
Guilt is one of the strangest and most human feelings I know. It does not stay where you put it. It comes back changed, heavier, quieter, at the wrong moment. I keep asking myself questions about emotion, about why a feeling can reshape a memory until you are not sure what really happened.
The Guilt Device is my attempt to turn one of the most philosophical feelings we carry into something you can actually hear. It does not repeat your sound. It remembers it incorrectly. Reverse tails, granular smear, pitch that drifts, a dark chamber that swallows the note and gives back something that is almost, but not quite, what you played.
I built it around a single idea: that an emotion can take over a sound the way it takes over a person. One knob, and the whole thing leans into that feeling.
I hope you feel it. I hope it pulls something honest out of your playing, and I hope you make sounds that vibe with whatever you are carrying.
The single Guilt knob. Turn it up and reverse delay, granular smear, pitch drift, dark-chamber ambience, decay and collapse all move together, like one emotional state taking over your sound. Six named modes change the character; the rest is you and that one gesture.
// Under the hood
- One macro Guilt knob driving the whole engine
- Reverse delay and granular smear
- Pitch drift and instability
- Schroeder dark-chamber ambience
- Six modes: Confession, Buried, Aftermath, Relapse, The Weight, Absolution
- Dark and light hand-illustrated themes
- VST3, AU and Standalone (Mac), VST3 and Standalone (Windows)
- 14-day fully working free trial, then $39 one-time
Piruz Afruz
Founder, Piruz Labs