Gamechanger Audio is a Latvian company committed to searching the unknown territories of music electronics and designing devices that produce real value while expanding the imagination of both musicians and engineers. In their Plasma Pedal they succeeded to combine Tesla coil with a lot of Rock and Roll and the result is one of the worlds heaviest sounds with plenty of unique features and the potential to become the new standard of distortion.
Similar to Plasma Pedal, Plasma Drive gives you a new and previously unexplored way of producing signal clipping in 16HP. Instead of using LED circuits, transistors or vacuum tubes to produce overdrive, the Plasma Drive boosts the audio signal to 3000V and converts it into a series of continuous high-voltage discharges in a xenon-filled tube. In essence – you are playing a lightning bolt of electricity, and the electrical discharges produced by your instrument are instantly converted back into an analog audio signal, providing a quick, responsive, and extremely heavy distortion with tons of unique character.
The eurorack module Plasma Drive produces sounds of the Plasma Pedal to the next level. As per eurorack standards, we added CV control over distortion level and dry/wet mix, as well as octave up and 1 and 2 octaves down tracking oscillators that add even more harmonics to the original signal. Tracking oscillators can be switched on/off manually or via trigger signals. The Plasma Drive module is powered via a conventional eurorack PSU ribbon cable and the power consumption is around 150mA.
Main features of EricaSynths vs Gamechanger Audio Plasma Drive:
- Unique distortion flavor
- CV control over distortion and dry/wet mix
- Assignable equalizer (pre- and post effect)
- 1 octave up & 1 and 2 octaved down tracking oscillators
The release date is set for February 20th 2019.
