Peradam is a distortion module that does all sorts of ungodly things to the input signal – technically, it’s a sidechain distortion that can be described as the evil brother of a compressor.
Peradam does lots of things to the input signal, but it doesn’t simply drive up the gain, like other distortions. Instead, it features a technically very clean signal path with a sidechain circuit. First the input signal is split up, with one half going into a VCA, and the other half going the sidechain route. Its phase gets modulated, before a full ring modulation, creating a signal at twice the frequency for modulating the amplitude of the original signal – creating complex self-distortions.
From there the signal will be processed by a dual band drive circuit, that is also found on the Cosmix module by Cosmotronic, before entering the soft clipper output stage. To spice things up, you can create a feedback loop by sending the output back into the input.
Peradam even goes into self-oscillation at high feedback levels, resulting in a broad range of intense sounds. All in all, you’ll get all kinds of sounds from this versatile module, from subtle saturation to complete destruction – all under CV control if you like and with a blend control before the output socket.
HE: | 3 |
TE: | 10 |
Depth: | 25 |
Power consumption +12V: | 56 |
Power consumption -12V: | 45 |