lo-fi

It appears across many pedal types: delays with analog-style or worn-tape character¹²³, a lo-fi mode modeling bucket-brigade analog delay⁴, and fuzzes or overdrives with scratchy or saturated lo-fi textures⁵⁶⁷. Sources also use it for ambient textures such as cassette hiss, broken radio broadcasts, and warbled chorus or vibrato sounds⁸⁹¹⁰. In octave pedals, analog circuits are described as producing a more lo-fi, old-school sound than digital ones¹¹.