GP-PLASMA

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Gamechanger Audio's Plasma Pedal is pure high voltage rock'n' roll. It creates heavy distortion by amplifying audio signals up to 3,500 Volts and transforming it into electical discharges. You are literally playing a bolt of electricity.

Rather than relying on traditional LED, transistor or super awesome and radical vacuum-tube circuits to produce overdrive, the Plasma Pedal fundamentally redefines the way that signal clipping can be acheived.

Inspired by Nikola Tesla's electrical resonant transformer circuit design (the Tesla Coil), it is the first effects unit to introduce a new method for signal clipping by converting the input signal into pure electrical discharges.

The blue light visible on the pedal's front panel is the actual electrical arc created by the audio input as it travels between two electrodes on either end of a specially designed xenon-filled gas discharge tube. These continuous bursts of electricity are instantly converted back to analog audio level using specialized analog rectifier circuits. The result is rich and saturated distortion textures, with screeching sharp overtones, beds of articulate harmonics and sputtery bursts of raw electricity.

The unique noise artifacts created as a byproduct of the high-voltage discharges are uncommon in traditional signal amplification, and therefore the Plasma Pedal's distortion sounds like no other high-gain effects unit.

You can use the pedal's "Voltage" knob to change the signal threshold necessary for a connection to be made in the gas discharge tube. This lets you dial in various sweet-spots ranging from wide-open sustain for days, to chopped and sputtery gate sounds with extreme contrasts between individual notes and chords.

The Plasma Pedal has a dedicated "Blend" knob that lets you combine the Plasma distortion with your instrument's clean signal or with other effects and gainstages. There is also an extremely powerful onboard EQ section that lets you add a massive Low or High frequency boost. The EQ section can be adjusted via a toggle switch to affect either the Plasma Drive section, or both the Plasma and Clean signals.