PLASMA Rack

The PLASMA RACK turns your instrument’s signal into a rapid series of electric discharges in a Xenon-filled tube. High voltage discharges then get picked up by a specially designed electromagnetic receiver and turned back into audio-level signal. This process results in punishingly heavy distortion saturation with a wide range of harmonics and overtones. The harmonic artifacts, created as a byproduct of the high voltage discharge are uncommon in traditional signal amplification, and therefore PLASMA distortion is unlike anything you have heard before. The PLASMA Rack produces large amount of non linear harmonic saturation that causes extremely rich and responsive attacks, and brings out screeching sharp overtones and harmonics. The scope of distortion intensity goes from sputtery broken sounds to full saturation and sustain all the way to totally oversaturated tones. When input level drops below the PLASMA lamps voltage threshold the electrical discharge within the gas filled tube is interrupted. This creates a fast and sputtery gating effect which is unique to the PLASMA distortion and is a huge part of the flavor of this distortion. It creates strong contrasts between sounds so it works really well with beats and drum tracks. CLEAN GATE applies the special PLASMA gating to the dry signal even if the distorted wet signal is not mixed in. This allows to apply the same sputtering gate sounds as a texture without distorting the signal. The PLASMA RACK features a TREMOLO section that affects both the DRY and the WET signals in or out of phase. The tremolo is achieved by modulating the PLASMA tube and the tremolo speed goes into ring modulation territory. The effect also has an envelope follower which allows to control the tremolo and ring modulation depth with the input level. The PLASMA Rack has a balance and unbalanced I/O. It works with both instrument and line level signals. It is a mono unit, however it is designed to work in master/slave configuration for st

• The PLASMA Rack is a high voltage distortion rackmount module featuring electric discharge in a xenon tube. High voltage distortion is a new and previously unexplored method of achieving signal clipping.
• Instead of using LED circuits, transistors or vacuum tubes for clipping, the PLASMA RACK uses a flyback coil transformer to express audio signal as a series of continuous high voltage discharges within a xenon-filled tube. In essence you are playing a bolt of electricity, and the electrical discharges produced by your instrument are instantly converted back into an analog audio signal.
• The PLASMA Rack produces a quick, responsive, and extremely heavy distortion with tons of unique character and a very powerful noise gating effect.
• The wide frequency response spectrum, unique gating and distortion character works great with various sound sources like beats, synths, guitars, drum tracks, bass tracks, fx tracks and more.
• The PLASMA Rack provides hours and hours of exciting sonic exploration both during track printing and post-production. The unit works with line and instrument signal levels and is fully midi controllable.