Pladask Elektrisk

The scale of the operation shapes how you buy from it. There are no dealers, no pre-orders, reservations or waitlists, and everything ships from Norway, which has consequences for VAT and customs that are worth understanding before ordering³.

What Pladask Elektrisk is known for

The company's own tagline for its products is "experimental audio devices"², and the range reflects that. Rather than conventional drives or delays, the pedals lean toward unusual modulation and processing. The current product pages include:

• STEREO FRIKSJON, sold in gold and black versions⁴
• DRAUME and Feber, each with its manual linked from the product page⁵⁶
• ETTERSLEP, a pedal built by porting the DRADD Eurorack module back into pedal form, sharing that module's core trio of algorithms with an expanded feature set⁷
• Stereo Matrise⁸
• STEREO DRADD⁹
• STEREO FALMA BLOMAR, described by the maker as "two pedals in one," where the only difference between the two versions is the faceplate¹⁰

The discontinued side of the range includes the FORM line. The ReFORM was a programmable effect pedal built around the Spin FV-1 digital signal processor, with a DSP core wrapped in an analog dry/wet mixer¹¹. The FALMA was a random modulation pedal offering both tremolo and vibrato¹². Both are covered in the sections below on the FORM line's status.

Buying direct: webstore, restocks and no waitlists

All products can be bought direct through the Pladask Elektrisk webstore, and the company states plainly that it is not looking for dealers at the moment³. That makes the webstore the only regular channel for pedals.

For support, the company asks that customers read the FAQ and check the restock estimates on the product pages before emailing¹. Restock estimates are given on the product pages, so availability varies by product over time⁷⁸.

Shipping, VAT and customs from Norway

Because Pladask Elektrisk ships from Norway, the customs situation differs from buying from an EU-based maker. The company notes that Norway is not part of the European Union, so EU customers should expect import handling³. Key points from the maker's FAQ:

• Prices are excluding VAT³
• Product pages state that the price shown does not include shipping, taxes, VAT or import duties, with shipping calculated at checkout⁹
• International shipping can be calculated before checkout on the cart page³
• Shipping within Norway costs 76 NOK with tracking³
• Russia is excluded from shipping³
• The company will not undervalue package contents on customs declarations, calling the request illegal³

Norwegian customers are directed to a separate page for their orders¹³.

B-stock and support

Pladask Elektrisk sells B-stock alongside regular stock. The company's definition: blemished stock is functionally equal to regular stock but has visual deficiencies that warrant a reduced price. The deficiencies can, for instance, be scratches in the faceplate, enclosure or knobs³.

On custom work, the company is categorical. Asked whether it takes custom orders, builds clones or modifies customer pedals, the FAQ answers:³

The FORM pedals

The FORM, FORM2 and ReFORM line has been discontinued, and Pladask Elektrisk no longer sells them³. For reference, the ReFORM was a programmable effect pedal built around the Spin FV-1 DSP, made up of a DSP core and a "wrapper" consisting of an analog dry/wet mixer with various parameters¹¹. The FALMA, also discontinued, was a random modulation pedal offering both tremolo and vibrato¹². Players looking for a current Pladask modulation pedal will find the stereo FALMA/BLOMAR in the present range instead¹⁰.

Eurorack modules

Pladask Elektrisk's Eurorack modules can be bought direct through the webstore or through the company's EU distributor, Voltage Sound³. The ETTERSLEP pedal's origins point to how the two sides of the range relate: it came from porting the DRADD module back into pedal form⁷.

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