Sunday, January 28, 2018

OVERDRIVE- GAME CHANGER AUDIO Plasma high voltage Distortion ...I know...but that is what it is ...LOL

 GAME CHANGER AUDIO PLASMA HIGH VOLTAGE DISTORTION 

projected price ?
$425.00 USD
Well full points for method! The pedal gives you the kind of sag you get from a saturated tube amp transformer and or a rectifier tube being  smacked with too much gain.
They do this by hitting the pedal with with high voltage discharges coming from xenon filled tubes.
It makes for a cool crushing and nasty distortion that gasps
out it's sound.
The French company
Celmo Labs Pimento Sardine   ($165.00 USD)
pedal has a similar sound but without the total grunge that this has.It still sounds like an overloaded Supro or other cheaply made amp made in the Chicago area in the early 60's.

Custom Tones Ethos TW-1   ( $225.00 USD)
also has a great sag but theirs is a dead on clone of what a Marshall pushed past nasty gives you. In short the Plasma goes way over what an amp would do.
But it is great fun.
Unfortunately you can buy  the other 2 pedals and still have change for McDonalds for the price???



This will have it's place but it is not going to get to far past a gimmick. You can not write a tune and say the Plasma pedal will sound great on the verse etc. Because it won't.
A lot of pedals now make such a dramatic sound that if you can use it once or twice in the night and after that it become just plain 'corny'. Once is cool twice is OK and 3 times it is tiresome for the audience to hear.
At $425.00 USD you can buy a serviceable MIM used Fender so how sensible is it to buy the thing???

2 comments:

  1. It might be more useful than suggested. I've used a fuzz factory clone as a lead tone for a whole album. As shrill as it is, it ended up sitting well with the synth heavy songs. It became the signature guitar thing and informed my playing. The plasma pedal might do that for certain people. I could see it being used as a core sound for some lofi, stoner, indie, insert label here.. As for the price... Yeah, that's steep. I'm intrigued.

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