Put your pedal to the metal with Gamechanger Audio’s new Motor Pedal
Gamechanger Audio has just released the Motor Pedal, the world’s first electro-mechanical synth pedal equipped with a DC electro-motor block core controlled via a gas pedal.
A unique meeting point between a fuzz, octaver and synth, the Motor Pedal’s musical motor oscillator is an opportunity to really find the ‘biting point’ of your sound. The pedal motor’s rotational speed will match the frequency of your performance in in real time, with the option of pumping on the gas to tweak your sound – and there are five unique modes to reshape its sound.
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Whether you’re into the glitchy, raw feel of the standard Motor mode, or the resonant analogue vibrations of the Coil Mode, the Motor Pedal has plenty of creative potential. There’s also MXD mode, a cross-modulation of the motor with a digital waveform for harsher, metallic textures, as well as the pitch-locked M-Wave and Vocoder modes.
In terms of the physical gas pedal, you can also flick between different modes to tweak how the pedal plays with your sound. You can use it as an Accelerator to pitch shift, a Brake for downwards pitch-shifting or totally pumping the breaks to halt the motor, or a Clutch to create drones and disconnect the motor from its pitch-tracking. The pedal can also play with Volume and be used to Drift for some lovely vibrato.
Elsewhere, the pedal also has Tone Boost, a pair of independent volume knobs, Glide and Vibrato as well as an X-MOD Mode to use amplitude modulation to mix and cross-modulate across all the motor engines.
The pedal isn’t merely for guitar riffing, however. The pedal can tweak just about any sound, from singing to a harp, as YouTuber Emily Harpist showcases in a review of the Motor Pedal.
However, there is somewhat of a drawback to utilising an electro-motor block as your core sound engine – it wears down over time. Gamechanger Audio has managed to add in a pretty humorous way of making you aware of the state of your motor, however; an ‘engine light’ on the pedal will light up orange, before eventually turning red. According to Gamechanger Audio, the block should last you anywhere between 3000-5000 hours, with a replacement motor block set to cost under $30.
Gamechanger Audio’s Motor Pedal is available now for £299.
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