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My OBNE x Emily Hopkins x B's Music Purr-ting is finally purring on all cylinders!
Key Points
The OBNE x Emily Hopkins x B's Music Purr-ting is a Glitch Delay/Reverb Crushing Modulation device with stereo I/O, analog dry‑through, 3 onboard presets, MIDI and Expression control, selectable buffered trails or true bypass, and hand-made in Oklahoma.
Top controls: RATE, DEPTH, Shape (Sine/Square/Reverse Saw/Saw/Random Sine/Random Square/Envelope), Dissolve (below noon = reduced sample rate; above noon = degraded reverse), Chance, Smear, Glitch, MOD/TIME, FILTER, MIX. Rear: 1/4" TRS Stereo In/Out, mini TRS MIDI In/Out, USB‑C, Expression, 9V DC (350mA).
Available now from B's Music; MAP/RRP $329. As of 2026-07-13, the import charge paid was £60. Demo: https://www.facebook.com/HarpistEmily/videos/1516775536057205/ For electrical or modification work, consult a qualified tech.
I first featured the Old Blood Noise x Emily Hopkings Parting back on January 21st. All the demos were great, but I was massively put off by the overly cluttered nature of the artwork. Even in the early monochrome edition - that ultra busy design made it really hard to even look in the direction of the pedal - I imagine anyone on the spectrum would not have reacted well to that design. It kind of drowned out the functional ability of the pedal - and made it look far tricker to deploy than it actually is.
Then along comes B’s Music Brian - with his designer Avery Worrall - to save the day with their Purr-ting Cat Edition! That artwork is just perfect for this pedal - and enhances rather than getting in the way of the control topology!
The top knobs are actually in 3 Functional Sections - and I thought it would make sense to make the knobs demarcate each of those sections. To which ends I ordered in 2 varieties from Love My Switches (White and Dark Blue), and 2 varieties from OBNE (Light Blue and Lavender). The Love My Switches arrived in a week, while the OBNE ones have only just landed. So I used one of the White ones from Love My Switches for the Dissolve Function, and the Light Blue ones from OBNE for the Modulation Section. Finally my Parting / Purr-ting is perfect!
I often deploy different knob colourways on my pedals to make the control topology easier and more immediate / intuitive to grasp - I did a similar but more subtle exercise on my recent CTC White Whale Jr also.
The Parting / Purr-ting is essentially a greatest hits of Emily's favourite effects - assembled together in very precise Multi-FX fashion. It's best described as a Glitch Delay / Reverb / Crushing Modulation. It can sound utterly divine and subtle, or crazy glitchy - depending on your preferences.
I always say that you need to make a pedal work for you - and for the Parting to work for me - it needed to be souped up a touch from its original state!
OBNE realised the error of its ways and made a very plain 'Basic' edition - which I feel goes too far in the other direction - that pedal just doesn't appeal in the slightest to me - with its tiny graphic in the centre - it kind of looks like a printing error! I can understand why they did it - but that execution just isn't aesthetically appealing - especially not compared to the Purr-ting!
OBNE then recently issued 2 further Editions as below - with that same overly cluttered and dense artwork - Ikey's Likey's Edition with Red knobs, and the somewhat puerile 'Farting' Edition in Brown. Apparently there is a market for those too! Yet none of the ones OBNE has designed and made can hold a candle to the B's Music design by Avery Worrall - that is the artwork this pedal deserves! And the only one I would feel good about owning!
Controls - RATE [divisions], DEPTH [width], Shape : Sine / Square / Reverse Saw / Saw / Random Sine / Random Square / Envelope, Dissolve : , Chance : Delay/Reverb Buffer %, Smear : Diffuse / Feedback, Glitch : Increasingly randomised clock subdivisions, Presets 1-3, MOD/TIME : Tremolo [vibrato], FILTER : Low Pass [High Pass], MIX : Dry>Wet [Dry x Wet Diffusion]. AUX [alt] Footswitch (+ON/OFF = Tap Tempo | +MOD = Half Time | +PRESET = Presets 1-3), ON/OFF | Bypass Footswitch.
Rear Panel - 1/4" TRS Stereo In, 1/4" TRS Stereo Out, Mini TRS MIDI In, Mini TRS MIDI Out, USB-C, Expression, 9V DC [-] 350mA.
KEY FEATURES
- Glitch Delay/Reverb Crushing Modulation Device
- Stereo Input and Output, with the option for Mono or Mono-in-Stereo-out routing
- Aux footswitch for tap tempo, half clock speed, or preset switching
- Dissolve control with two functions, below noon for reduced sample rate, above noon for increasingly degraded reverse signal
- Analog Dry-Through
- Expression and MIDI control over all parameters
- MIDI clock I/O for external tempo syncing
- 3 x onboard Presets, plus control via MIDI
- Selectable Buffered Trails or True Bypass modes
- Top-mounted Jacks and Soft-Touch Switching
- Hand-made in Oklahoma, USA
- Available in 3 Colourways - Green (standard), Purple and Stone
- Powered by (opt.) 9 V DC PSU (centre -, 2.1 mm, ~ 350 mA current draw, not included)
- Dimensions : 108 x 126 x 69mm
- Weight : c.500g
- MAP / RRP : $329
Buy the Purr-ting!
The OBNE x Emily Hopkins x B's Musing Purr-ting is $329 direct from B's Music Shop (same price as the stock OBNE one), available right now!
The pedal got to me relatively quickly - obviously I had to pay import charges / customs fees on top of that - those came to almost exactly £60 or $80 equivalent. I spend a further $30 for knobs from Love My Switches, and $45 for the same number of knobs from OBNE - which had dearer shipping, but then arrived nearly 3 weeks after the Love My Switches ones landed! Note that shipping to London, UK is included in those knob prices.
Obviously there's a degree of lunacy in this process - while I keep hold of all my pedals - and they need to work for me - which sometime involves a little extra effort and cost. Only 4 of the 16 knobs got used in the end - so those remaining ones are still assets! While I did overall end up paying $484 for mine - which is obviously borderline insane - but that's what I needed to do to make the pedal fully work for me!
You can of course buy the 5 other Parting varieties direct from OBNE and at leading dealers - only B's Music has the Purr-ting! And only OBNE has the 'Farting' which is on a separate URL - available for a limited time only!
Demos
