关于Gamechanger音频的事情是……好吧，他们称自己为Gamechanger音频，不是吗？这意味着他们所做的一切都必须至少有些革命性，否则，他们看起来会过度自信。
This was not an issue with the Plus Pedal, which was hailed as a show-stealer at NAMM 2017 with its ingeniously layered sustain effects.后续血浆踏板现在到达英国，这家拉脱维亚的初创企业可以再次改变游戏吗？让我们找出答案……并在我们进行的同时给予我们考虑的冬季后分析。
归功于等离子体背后的设计师，以提出像Plus一样独特的东西。就布局而言，这是一个更传统的脚步盒，但是弗兰肯斯坦博士的实验室有一个关于中间充满气体填充的管子的实验室。那么，这是视觉上的头，还是它实际上做了真正创新的事情？在六到七个读取手册之后，我们仍然不确定。
基础知识似乎如下：踏板将您的干净信号转换为一系列被发送到变压器的冲动，并将它们放大到高压。然后，通过上述氙气的管子将电流排放，在放电转换回音频信号时，会产生一个蓝色的烟花显示。
The obvious question is why you’d bother going through all that rigmarole just to rough up a guitar sound – we’re hoping to find an answer to that in the performance of the pedal. There’s a dial for adjusting the voltage, plus controls for treble, bass and clean/distorted blend; a switch on the back lets you decide whether the EQ treatment is also applied to the clean part of the pedal’s output.
从表面上看，加号似乎更简单。Inspired by a piano’s sostenuto pedal (the one that only sustains those notes already ringing when it’s pressed), it’s been described as a smart looper: play a note or chord, press down the foot pedal and listen as it rolls back at you minus the transient attack. You can push down again to add more layers, or simply play normally over the top.
不过，还有更多的事情 - 包括控制循环逐渐消失的速度，它们维持多长时间以及您持有多少层声音（最多五个）。您甚至会获得一个效果循环，仅在重复声音中添加额外的零食。扔进可选的脚踏板，您可以在建造层时保持干燥信号静音，然后在准备用草率的独奏破坏所有东西时将其踢回去。
正在使用
无论电子用途，等离子踏板的氙气管实际上都在使用，无可否认，在玩游戏时，观看蓝色的海浪舞很有趣。作为额外的奖励，听起来也不错。
这是一台高增益的污物机器，形成了一个模糊的愤怒墙，其彻底扁平的动力学平稳，但在失真本身的crack啪声中粗糙。当听起来您伴随着现场篝火时，这是特别引人注目的单音符。
But perhaps the most distinctive thing about this pedal, not counting that bewitching plasma dance, is the squishy splat-fuzz effect created by pulling back on the voltage. As the level of saturation comes down, notes get more and more brutally pinched – and ultimately gated out completely. Sputtery gating tricks are nothing new, of course, but this variant on the formula does have its own lower-than-lo-fi voice that Jack White fans will enjoy.
The tonestack is an unusually powerful tool in its own right, letting you add a thunderous whump of low end or assail your listeners’ ears with something much more bright and shreddy – or even zero both dials to emphasise the gnarly midrange. Gamechanger claims this tonal versatility is down to the unique nature of the circuit: the fact that it’s effectively killing your dry signal and then rebuilding it allows for a wider range of frequencies to be brought into play. Our eyebrows were well and truly raised… but the evidence of our ears suggests there could be something in it.
The Plus Pedal is another fine-looking piece of kit that’s been made in Latvia to what are clearly high standards of construction. As a result, it’s quite heavy as well as being considerably less compact than its most obvious rival, the affordable but basic Electro-Harmonix Freeze.
盒子里有一条长的手册，踏板侧面有一条短手册，但是您不需要在这里开始。遵循几段前概述的食谱，您很快就会陷入超凡脱俗的氛围中，听起来像教堂的器官无人机，而不是您通常希望听到单纯的吉他放大器中出现的任何内容。
只有当您想超越这种基本的“智能循环”功能的新颖性时，有些阅读才有用。The four knobs allow for precise tailoring of the loops’ behaviour and it’s the added features – the two-stage foot-pedal allowing half-volume layers, the switchable dry output, the built-in effects loop, the ability to let one cycle fade out while another keeps going – that open up this gadget’s creative potential.
不要为您的amphaddywaddy致敬乐队而烦恼；但是，如果您想突破最小的纹理纹理的界限，那可能是一个方便的武器。
In truth, much of what this pedal does could be achieved with a combination of two or three ‘normal’ stompboxes; but nothing sounds, or feels, quite like the Plus. Whether it really isa game-changer on the scale of the DigiTech Whammy or Line 6 DL4, we’re not so sure… but you can believe at least some of the hype.
Key Features
等离子体Pedal: 8/10
- 价格£269
- DESCRIPTION高压失真。在拉脱维亚制造
- CONTROLS混合，电压，音量，低频，高频，干净等式开/关
FEATURES真旁路；由至少250mA的9伏电源供电（未包括） - DIMENSIONS148 x 96 x 70mm
- VERDICT看起来不像它看起来那么激进，但对于Noiseniks来说仍然是骚乱
加Pedal: 9/10
- 价格£299（湿脚开关339英镑）
- DESCRIPTIONSustain/looper pedal. Made in Latvia
- CONTROLS两阶段的脚踏，混合，维持，上升速度，尾巴，组/单单和分裂/混合开关
- FEATURES缓冲旁路；由至少200mA的9伏主电源提供动力（不包括）
- DIMENSIONS195 x 90 x 72mm
- 接触Gamechanger音频gamechangeraudio.com
- VERDICT一种质地建造零食，非常容易掌握
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- 等离子体Rainger FX DR Freakenstein£229，斐济式爆炸炉£229, Keeley Fuzz Bender £149
- 加Electro-Harmonix Freeze£115，Digitech Freqout£109，Eventide Space£445