Non-Human Audio Mocking Blur

The Non-Human Audio Mocking Blur is a delay pedal, but the maker is upfront that it is more than that. Non-Human Audio describes it as "a quirky delay, dirt, and boost all wrapped up together," a single pedal that covers ground you might otherwise split across a delay and a boost¹.

What it does to your sound

Non-Human Audio gives three broad descriptions of what the pedal can do¹:

• a dirty boost with some "space"
• an ambient pad generator with a strange modulation
• a noise maker

In practice that means the Mocking Blur can sit on a board as a light overdrive into a clean amp, or be pushed toward washed-out, modulated ambience and outright noise, depending on how it is set¹.

The pedal is also interactive with the rest of a rig. According to the maker, "It will respond to other pedals before it in your signal chain, and it is also loud enough to overdrive amps and other pedals" placed after it¹. That makes placement on the board matter: dirt and fuzz pedals ahead of it will shape what the delay and boost do, and the pedal's output has enough level to push an amp into overdrive on its own.

Versions and availability

The Mocking Blur has been offered in two versions, which the maker describes as follows¹:

Power and the manual

The Mocking Blur runs on standard 9V center pin negative DC power only, and the maker notes that any standard "Boss style" pedal power adapter will work¹. There is no battery option: the pedal runs on DC power only¹.

A PDF manual for the pedal is available as a download from the maker¹.

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