Gamechanger Audio Introduces Recoder, a Sample-Based Pedal That Rewrites Your Tone in Real Time
Gamechanger Audio has unveiled the Recoder, a sample-based effect generator that they call “a new kind of musical tool.” It’s so unique, they even admit they don’t fully know what it is yet.
“Record any sound, a riff, a melody, a beat, a hiss, a glitch — and use the RECODER to imbue your dry signal with various properties of the captured ‘spectral donor,'” they write. “You can record from the main input, a separate REC input – or from the built in microphone!”
Users record a phrase by holding down the REC footswitch, after which the sample capture will be displayed on the circular LED display. Releasing the footswitch will begin looping inside the memory buffer. You then play your instrument through the phrase, using it to reshape your sound.
“Every phrase you capture can be saved permanently inside the pedal, stored in one of 234 memory slots – along with all its customized parameters, layers, mangles, and mutations,” Gamechanger writes. “Short phrases (50–200 ms) behave like spectral filters, resonators, or timbral imprints; Long phrases (up to full length WAV samples) become living rhythmic maps, transient machines, vowel vocoders, spectral landscapes, phantom riffs that live inside your clean sound.”
Although the demo is on the guitar, you can better understand the pedal’s scope in the company’s demo video:
The Gamechanger Audio Recoder is a limited edition pedal with orders open only until December 25th. It’s open to order now for $249.
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