Dissecting the Gamechanger PLUS pedal...

oceanruckus

oceanruckus

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I've been intrigued by this pedal for awhile...particularly the 2 layer sound-on-sound feature. You can play a note/chord, sustain it by pressing the pedal, play another note and press the pedal, and it will sustain it as well. If you play another note/chord and press the pedal, it will sustain that with the previous note/chord - 2 layers. Check out this video (toward the beginning):



I play mostly worship stuff and occasionally we won't have a keys player, so I'll lay down a pad with volume swells over the top. I've setup my AX8 with a keys sustain pedal to trigger the hold function on a delay that feeds into a pitch block (octaves) and into a reverb, so I can play a chord and press down, and it will sustain with modulation and shimmer. Is it somehow possible - with AX8, all things are possible ;) - to do a 2 layer sustain like the Gamechanger PLUS? I've been able to recreate most pedals I've come to love - Strymon's Cloud reverb from their Bigsky and the Flint's harmonic tremolo - but this seems impossible (the 2 layer feature).

I'm currently running my reverb pedal (an Earthquaker Avalanche Run) in the fx loop of the AX8 to save CPU. If anything, I could always buy the pedal - but I love trying to figure out things, especially with such a powerful tool like the AX8.
 
I guess you could get something similar with the hold setting on the reverb or delay blocks, kind of like the ehx freeze pedal.

Would get you in the ballpark at least, but not sure how you’d get the true layering ability for two layers.

If you just want a holding sound, for ambiance, the hold setting or even a synth block, can work nicely, but I really don’t think the ax8 can duplicate what the pedal does fully.

I’d probably just get the pedal. Added with the fox loop and other powers of the ax8 it would be a heck of a tool
 
I figured so...couldn't really figure out the 2 layer holding ability, so I saw a good deal on the pedal and jumped on it. I'm excited to pair it with the AX8 and see what crazy sounds I can make :sunglasses:
 
Come back and tell us how it goes!

In my worship band I found I liked wet swells into the looper (with a 4 bar loop) better than a hold on the reverb.

Still trying to perfect the shimmer but am getting very close. Trying to keep under the CPU limit is the challenge!
 
Got the Gamechanger pedal in - I think its going to pair nicely with the AX8. I haven't had a chance yet :confounded: to play in depth - got sick kiddos at home.
 
Thanks for the ideas errbody. This box o sounds is so inspiring to play I barely get anything else done! I'd pay double for 2x the CPU and not have to put an outboard reverb/fx in the loop.
 
406Ryan said:
Any thoughts or feedback on the Gamechanger Plus?
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Man, its pretty cool. I had a EHX Freeze and that always had a more digital/synthy sound. The Gamechanger sounds very organic and plays extremely nicely. The pedal itself has good "foot feel" - now I'm making up guitar phrases - and responds to quick/half/slow pushes. I still have it and plan on keeping it for a good while. I have it in the fx block in a parallel loop on the AX8. The chain goes vol (to turn on/off input) -> FX block -> rotary -> reverb (with expression switch on the input). I can add some verb to my playing when needed and easily throw down a pad.
 
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