Gamechanger Audio has redesigned the PLUS Pedal, the Riga, Latvia company’s best-selling sustain effect, building it around an entirely new sound engine and a broader set of performance tools. The original became a favorite across genres for its ability to turn a single note into a rich, evolving soundscape, and the PLUS Pedal II carries that idea forward rather than starting over.
At the core is Spectral Sampling, an engine that captures audio in real time and resynthesizes it to preserve the timbre, dynamics, and character of whatever’s played into it, rather than simply freezing a sound in place. Gamechanger says the approach works as well on vocals, flute, saxophone, violin, cello, and acoustic instruments as it does on electric guitar, and a combo XLR/TS input with a built-in mic preamp lets any of those sources plug in directly.
A new Auto Layer Catch mode listens for new notes and adds them to the sustain automatically, so players can rest a foot on the pedal and perform without triggering each layer by hand — closer to a piano’s sustain pedal than a typical effect. A Layers control sets the count anywhere from a single note up to ten at once, or an Infinite mode that keeps folding older layers into new ones indefinitely. Redesigned controls shape how each layer fades in and out and how its tone evolves while it sustains.
Routing gets more flexible too: a three-position effects loop lets outside pedals sit before, inside, or after the sustained signal without repatching a board, and an optional footswitch adds three more ways to blend or isolate the dry and sustained sound. Together, the changes push the PLUS Pedal past its original identity as a guitar novelty into a broader studio and stage tool.
The PLUS Pedal II is available to order now, with first units shipping in August.
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