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The Guilt
Device

Emotional Degradation Engine

"The Guilt Device does not repeat your guitar. It remembers it incorrectly."

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The Guilt Device, Emotional Degradation Engine, full poster with dark and light themes and the central Guilt macro

Guilt is a memory
that never decays

// What it is

One knob that turns a clean take into a memory of itself

The Guilt Device is a macro-driven effect for guitar, and anything else you feed it. Turn up the Guilt knob and a single gesture drives reverse delay, granular smear, pitch drift, dark-chamber ambience, damping, degradation and collapse, together, like one emotional state taking over the sound. Six named modes shift the character; the rest is you and the knob.

Confession Buried Aftermath Relapse The Weight Absolution
// Our vision

Every Piruz Labs plugin is a piece of art, not a piece of tech. It's a channel for emotion and energy: a storm of inner visions and thoughts, shaped into waveform, for you to explore.

Piruz Afruz · Founder
// Under the hood

Built like an instrument, not a preset list

The Guilt macro

One knob mapping reverse, feedback, drift, grain, damping, ambience, degradation and instability into a single musical gesture.

Reverse & granular

Reverse delay and a granular smear engine that blur the line between what you played and what you remember playing.

Dark chamber

A Schroeder-style ambience that gives every note somewhere haunted to live.

Collapse & erase

Degradation and instability stages that let the signal fall apart on purpose, controlled, musical ruin.

Dark & light themes

Two hand-illustrated faces, clean steel or blood-worn, with A/B switching and clickless bypass.

Made for the session

VST3 · AU · Standalone on Mac, VST3 · Standalone on Windows. Input/output metering, resizable UI.