Cosmotronic Peradam

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