Gamechanger Audio announces the Noise Pedal, a stereo noise-based effects unit

October 29, 2026 · 1 sources

Gamechanger Audio, based in Riga, Latvia, announced the Noise Pedal - Broadband Signal Multiplier, a stereo noise pedal, on Thursday, October 29, 2026¹. It is the second pedal in the company's Math Series, which began with the Recoder in late 2025¹.

The pedal generates white noise and combines it with 30 noise engines to build a distortion section called Noisedrive and a reverb section called Noiseverb¹. The Chaos, Strength and Spectrum controls shape the noise before it reaches either section, and changing the engine alters the character of both¹. The pedal has 129 presets and a central display¹. With a guitar, bass or other instrument connected it works as an effects processor; with nothing connected it becomes a standalone noise generator¹.

The noise engines are grouped into families. OSC turns the engine into an oscillator that follows the pitch of the player's notes, using LFSR techniques and noise oscillators; FREQ works in the frequency domain with FFT and spectral modulation, including vocoder and formant shift functions; WAVE works in the time domain with AM, ring modulation, wavefolding and waveshaping¹. Noisedrive has Amount, Sustain and Timbre controls, and its own footswitch, which when held engages feedback¹.

Noiseverb offers three types: FDN, described as a "feedback delay network"; SPEC, where the noise takes on the instrument's spectrum to produce a reverb made entirely of noise; and RES, which extracts resonances from the peaks of both signal and noise, with a character similar to a phaser¹. There are 6 algorithms in total¹. Size ranges from short reverbs to near-infinite spaces and can also change the diffusion method; Level sends either the clean instrument signal or the Noisedrive-processed signal to the reverb, and works even when Noisedrive is off; Shape acts as a ducking or pre-delay control; Density moves from subtle textures to more saturated tones¹. The Noiseverb footswitch, held down, engages a Freeze function¹.

An infrared optical proximity sensor sits between the two footswitches and can be assigned to any combination of controls, so one gesture can change noise, distortion and reverb at once; pressing both footswitches together turns the sensor on or off¹. Audio inputs and outputs are true stereo, with separate left and right jacks¹. A USB-C port handles firmware updates and PC and CC messages, and MIDI runs over a TRS minijack connector, which also allows a MIDI keyboard to be connected, with the noise engines acting as a paraphonic noise synth¹.

Preorders close on November 23, with shipping expected in January 2027¹. The US price is $249 plus taxes¹. Orders placed by November 15 include a unit signed and numbered by the Math Series team¹.