PLUS PEDAL
SUSTAIN UNIT FOR ALL MELODIC
INSTRUMENTS
USER’S MANUAL
The PLUS Pedal was created by a small, but dedicated team of engineers,
musicians and, above all, friends. We named this team GAMECHANGER AUDIO
in order to make one thing absolutely clear – we are not interested in
building “boutique” overdrives or gluten-free delay pedals.
Unusual, innovative and daring music technology – that’s what excites us.
We wish you a fantastic journey and we hope this pedal changes
the way you approach your instrument – it sure happened to us ;)
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PLUS PEDAL TEAM
THE BASICS:
The PLUS pedal is a new kind of audio processing engine that offers piano-style
sustain/sostenuto effects for electric guitars and all other melodic instruments.
For best results we ask you to place the PLUS Pedal FIRST in your signal chain.
Make sure that the PLUS Pedal is connected to a suitable power supply unit
that can ensure at least 200mA (9V DC Center Negative).
How it works:
The PLUS Pedal does not use oscillators or filters to synthesize sounds!
Instead – it produces sound using the real signal from your instrument. When the
PLUS is on – it constantly records all audio signal coming from your instrument,
and therefore – as soon as you press the foot-pedal it is able to immediately spring
into action and start analyzing the most recent audio event – such as a strummed
chord, or a separate note on a wind instrument.
In this simplified illustration we see that the PLUS Pedal has identified three
distinct elements for this particular strummed chord:
The PLUS Pedal will now proceed to create a “usable loop” out of the ringing part
of the chord.
Think of it as a “Smart Looper” that only catches the second half of each note or
chord you play and samples that short snippet of sound into a seamless,
continuous loop.
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chord ringing
Attack
pedal engaged
