Open a portal with the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Beam Splitter
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The Old Blood Noise Endeavors Beam Splitter creates up to 3 copies of your original signal, each with its own overdrive character.
OBNE is known for building some of the most creative and beautifully decorated effects pedals around. Let’s take a look at what they’ve done here with the Beam Splitter.
Old Blood Noise Endeavors Beam Splitter
Working with each of the 3 channels starts with separate controls for gain, volume, and tone. Here, you can differentiate the voices as you begin to build each layer of your sound by adding brightness to the distortion.
The 3 layers are colour-coded as follows:
- Purple – hard-clipping distortion
- Green – soft-clipping overdrive
- Blue – transistor overdrive
The first 2 voices also have delay and decay time controls which allows you to create modulation effects like chorus and flanging while you shape the tails of each part of the sound.
OBNE Beam Splitter
Where it gets interesting, is the Deviate control can be used to vary the delay times at random. So you can give the different layers a more organic feel as they move independently, or you can generate some truly wonky effects.
What’s more, the Deviate amount can be externally controlled with an expression pedal. This allows you to play it far more deliberately, as you would with a Wah pedal.
Overall, the Beam Splitter looks extremely versatile, as you can get a summed parallel mono signal from one output or three separate splits. The idea of layering sounds will appeal not only to guitarists but to synth heads, instrumentalists, and vocalists too.
Pricing and availability:
The Beam Splitter is currently available for order directly from OBNE at a price of $229 and will be available from your favourite retailer soon.
To power the Beam Splitter, you’ll need a 150mA 9V DC center negative 2.1mm jack power supply, which is not included.
More about the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Beam Splitter:
- Official product page
- More from OBNE
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- OBNE Beam Splitter: Old Blood Noise Endeavors
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