Ezhi & Aka
Running for 78
Running for 78
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Pedal Features
Pedal Features
9VDC center negative
100 mA
dimensions: 4.7" X 3.9" X 1.4"+0.7" w/knobs
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Running for 78 is a CD skip/glitch/sample rate reducer pedal inspired by the way old portable CD players would glitch when shaken, for example when you are running for a bus with the player being attached to your belt.
Based on a 12 bit obsolete delay IC using old 256Kbit memory IC, this pedal provides very natural sample rate reduction ranging from slight lofi tone to complete destruction beyond note recognition, but this is just the beginning.
The main feature is the CD skip/glitch effect controlled via envelope or a built in IR sensor. Simply moving your foot over the sensor chops the signal into tiny delayed pieces and scans through them producing the effect.
Envelope control provides more straightforward glitch modulation controlled entirely by your playing.
Control sources can be combined.
Both controls can affect the sample rate for pitch and tone destruction too.
Another outstanding Ezhi & Aka pedal — Running for 78. Like their other designs, it leans heavily into experimentation, but in a way that stays musical and playable. The core glitch engine recreates old portable CD-player skip behavior, producing stutters, dropouts, pitch warbles, and crushed digital artifacts that feel organic rather than static. The built-in IR motion sensor and envelope follower let your playing dynamics and physical movement directly control the glitch behavior, making it incredibly performative and alive.
These pedals are fairly hard to track down, so it’s great to have a shop that carries their inventory. Really appreciate the excellent customer service and flexibility with shipping — smooth experience end to end.
If, like me, you love pedals that fuck your shit up, you’ll probably love this one. Glitchy craziness abounds—like robots short-circuiting, which, I guess, is a sound I’m partial to. Eagerly looking forward to exploring more of its possibilities…
Running for 78 isn’t your typical do-weird box. It’s a CD skip / glitch / sample rate reducer pedal, built around a 12-bit obsolete delay chip and a 256kbit memory IC — all to recreate the sound of a portable CD player skipping as you sprinted for the bus, Discman bouncing on your belt.
The result? Crushed fidelity, signal destruction, and glitchy modulation that can be controlled either by envelope or by waving your foot over the built-in IR sensor. The pedal slices your signal into stuttering, broken bits — turning riffs into broken loops, rhythms into spasms.
At lower settings, it delivers subtle lo-fi tone degradation. Push it, and it devolves into beautiful sonic anarchy. Notes collapse, repeat, skip, or fall apart depending on your dynamics or motion.
A pure example of experimental design — it’s reactive, chaotic, and strangely musical in all the wrong ways.
I’m loving experimenting with this and my other gear. Everything I already owned sounds unimaginably unique from anything I was hearing before.
Very unique sound… just what i love to explore.