Gamechanger Audio Noise Pedal preorders open, shipping set for January 2027
October 1, 2026 · 2 sources
Gamechanger Audio, based in Riga, Latvia, announced the Noise Pedal - Broadband Signal Multiplier, a stereo noise pedal, on the Thursday before November 2, 20261. It is the second pedal in the company's Math Series, which began with the Recoder in late 20251. Preorders are open and close on November 23, with shipments 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.
The pedal generates white noise and combines it with 30 different 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.
In Noisedrive, the instrument signal is mixed with the chosen noise. The noise engines fall into three 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 and includes FFT and spectral modulation, with functions such as vocoder and formant shifting; WAVE works in the time domain, with AM, ring modulation, wavefolding and waveshaping1. The Amount control moves between more instrument signal at one end and more noise at the other, alongside Sustain and Timbre controls1. Holding the Noisedrive footswitch engages feedback for what the report describes as an unpredictable wall of noise1.
Noiseverb uses the same shaped noise to build the reverb, with three types: FDN, a feedback delay network; SPEC, where the noise takes on the instrument's spectrum to produce a reverb made only of noise; and RES, which extracts resonances from the peaks of both signal and noise, with a character similar to a phaser. There are 6 algorithms in total1. Size runs from short reverbs to near-infinite spaces and can also change the diffusion method1. Level sends either the clean instrument signal or the Noisedrive-processed signal to the reverb, and this send works even when the Noisedrive module is off1. Shape acts as a ducking or pre-delay control, and Density moves from subtle textures to more saturated tones1. Holding the Noiseverb footswitch engages a freeze that holds the reverb tail1.
An infrared optical proximity sensor sits between the two footswitches and can be assigned to any combination of controls, so a single 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 jacks, and there is a USB-C port for firmware updates and for sending PC and CC messages1. 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.
A separate October pedal-chain roundup, published October 31, 2026, says its author had preordered the Noise Pedal ahead of its January arrival2.