Old Blood Noise Endeavors

After nearly six years of production, we have expanded our flagship pedal, the Black Fountain Oil Can Delay. The Black Fountain captures the sound of vintage oil can delay units, which processed the instrument signal through actual oil in order to create warm, modulated repeats unlike anything else. This previously rare and unwieldy sound is now available in the Black Fountain, which features three modes and ample control over the signal.  Black Fountain V3 features: Tap tempo: set your tempo on the fly with two taps of a footswitch, and subdivide that tempo into quarter, eighth, or triplet notes Hidden function: hold the Tap footswitch to momentarily maximize feedback, leading to a nearly sound-on-sound effect Expression control: use an expressional pedal to control Time, Feedback, or both simultaneously Expanded delay time: all the way down to around 30ms and up to around 1s Modern, Organ, and Vintage mode give three different takes on the voice of the delay, and Fluid, Mix, Time, and Feedback knobs give control over the elements Black Fountain art by Sam Larson https://www.samlarson.com/

There's a gentle hum, a soft light somewhere in the darkness.  And it grows.  A little hope that you're not the only one in a vast universe.  Isolated, alone and dying.  When there's truly nothing making noise, what do you hear?  Is it nothing?  Or is it the softness, the growing of a voice that resides below the normal hum and frequency of the universe.  The voice of the Dark Star. The Dark Star is what we would use to create long reverberated pads.  The noises underneath the lead.  The mood setter.  That's the Dark Star.  The way a song feels.  That's because of the Dark Star. At its heart, the Dark Star is a Reverb.  Then the Reverb signal passes through three possible modes:  Pitch, Delay and Crush. CTRL 1 and CTRL 2 correspond with the selected mode.  In Pitch, you've got two independent pitch controls for + and - an octave.  In Delay, you've got the Delay Time and Delay Feedback.  In Crush, you've got a pitch control for +/- an octave and then a control for Bit Crush.  The Mix and Reverb knobs control the mix of dry/wet signal and the decay of the reverb, respectively.   The Dark Star has two footswitches.  The Bypass switch is your standard on/off True Bypass switch.  The Hold switch is a momentary footswitch that when pressed, will lock in whatever note is being played through the reverb effect.  This will sustain as long as the Hold switch is pressed.  If the Mix control is set less than 100% wet, you can continue to play over the sustaining reverb signal. The Dark Star now features an expression out jack and clickless switching.  The output level can be tweaked via an internal trimpot for boost, slight drop, or unity gain. 9VDC - 2.1mm negative center pin adapter.60 mA draw. The art of the Dark Star comes from the magical mind of Jon Carling. Check out more of his excellent work here: joncarling.com

Designed with our friend Brian Hamilton from smallsound/bigsound for OBNE demo boards, we thought it a reasonable idea to offer every bedroom player a way to not annoy those around them.  Simply plug in the output of your pedalboard to the headphone amp, plug in headphones and blast your volume.  Play whatever you like, you're the only one who can hear.  Or a buddy can plug into the additional Headphone output.  Headphone output is mono out. Two 1/4 Headphone Output jacks allow two users to simultaneously listen. 9VDC ***Not to be used as a normal amplifier pushing cabinets.  Outputs are only intended for Headphone use.***

The Old Blood Noise Endeavors Mondegreen pedal is a digital delay hellbent on giving you something different than what you put in.  It’s delay. Into modulation.  And it’s weird.   A three-way toggle switch selects between three modes of modulated delay.STUTTER: A delay with a percussive tremolo on the trails.  WHIRL: A modulated delay adding chorus on the wet signal.  SHEER: A delay with increasing octaves on the repeats. Perhaps it’ll be strange enough in your hands.  Perhaps I’m underestimating your adventurous nature.  You sly dog.  Precocious Pup.  Get out of here.  Go get weird.   9VDC - 2.1mm negative center pin adapter.60 mA draw. The art of the Mondegreen comes from the illustrative ends of Jake Blanchard's mind. Check out more of his excellent work here: http://www.jakeblanchard.co.uk