Erica Synths has announced Plasma Drive, a Fusion Series module developed in collaboration with Gamechanger Audio. The Plasma Drive is a massive distortion unit that employs a Tesla coil to drop a load of cement on any patch you drive through it.
Gamechanger Audio is Latvian company committed to exploring the uncharted territories of music electronics and creating devices that provide real value while stretching the imagination of both musicians and engineers. In their Plasma Pedal they managed to combine Tesla coil with a lots of Rock and Roll and the result is one of the world’s heaviest sounds with plenty of unique features.
Similar as Plasma Pedal, Plasma Drive gives you a new and previously unexplored method of achieving signal clipping in 16HP. Instead of using LED circuits, transistors or vacuum tubes to produce overdrive, the Plasma Drive boosts audio signal to 3000V and transforms 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 analogue audio signal, producing a quick, responsive, and extremely heavy distortion with tons of unique character. And by “character” Erica means mind-melting heavy distortion.
Erica Synths Plasma Drive Features:
» Unique distortion character
» 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 Eurorack module Plasma Drive brings sounds of the Plasma Pedal to the next level. As per Eurorack standards, Erica 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 conventional eurorack PSU ribbon cable and the power consumption is around 150mA.
Plasma Drive is the Erica Fusion Series module developed in collaboration with the high voltage distortion experts Gamechanger Audio and costs €310. It is slated for release at the end of February.
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