Plasma Pedal converts the signal from your instrument into a rapid series of electrical discharges, resulting in a large amount of non-linear harmonic saturation that causes extremely rich and responsive attacks, and brings out very high harmonics and overtones. These harmonic artifacts, produced as a byproduct of the high-voltage discharge, are uncommon in traditional signal amplification, and therefore the PLASMA pedal distortion is unlike anything you have heard before.

Turning the Blend knob gives you a fully wet signal, produced solely by the gas discharge tube. This means that as soon as you stop playing, the electrical discharge inside the gas-filled tube is interrupted, and the pedal will produce no output signal at all. This feature allows you to achieve extreme contrasts between individual notes, eliminating all intermediate noise created by the instrument's pickups or by hum.