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Old Blood Noise Endeavors further enhances its Beam Splitter Triple Tracker Overdrive / Distortion, now in improved V2 Editions - Shadow, Cool and Warm
Key Points
Old Blood Noise Endeavors’ Beam Splitter V2 comes in Shadow, Cool and Warm editions, expanding its “Trereo” parallel gain machine with three footswitches. Drive I is hard-clipping distortion; II combines soft and hard clipping; III is transistor overdrive leaning toward fuzz. Each has Gain, Volume and Tone.
Two independent delays enable flanging, chorusing and broken vibrato, with selectable drive routing. TS/TRS and AUX outputs provide mono, stereo or “Trereo” routing. MIDI, USB-C, expression control, three onboard or 127 MIDI presets, and trails or true bypass are included.
Made in the USA, it uses 9V DC centre - power at 350mA. As of the stated pricing, the price was £369 ($379 / €399).
OBNE bills this as ’Further Adventures in Trereo’ - meaning Triphonic essentially - or having 3 outputs (one per Gain Section essentially). This is a really cool parallel multi-stacking gain machine - with added Dual Independent Delay Lines - which can be manipulated to deliver Flanging, Chorusing and Broken Vibrato too.
This new V2 one is much more granular and dynamic - coming with 3 footswitches rather than just the one of the original - so you can ramp things up and down on-the-fly!
Each of the 3 Gain Section has 3 controls - Gain, Volume, and Tone.
The 3 Gain Sections :
- I : Hard Clipping Distortion
- II : Soft + Hard Clipping Overdrive
- III : Transistor Overdrive / leaning into Fuzz
Controls : III} Gain, Volume, Tone; II} Gain, Volume, Tone; I} Gain, Volume, Tone; Delay 2} Time, Feedback, Preset 1-3, Spread, Deviate, Delay Select across Channel I / II / III; Delay 1} Time, Feedback, Footswitch III, Footswitch II, III+II = Scroll Preset, On/Off Footswitch.
Ports - TS/TRS In, TS/TRS Main Out, TS AUX Out, Mini TRS MIDI In and Out, USB-C, TRS Expresion, 9V DC [-] 350mA.
So you have super smart routing which allows for purely Mono, Mono to Stereo, Mono to ’Trereo’ - via TS / TRS ports - and using the 3rd AUX Output!
It’s a really cool capable pedal, but large with it too! So not the most pedalboard-friendly in that respect - while it does accommodated 3 user-assignable Footswitches for maximum on-the-fly dynamics.
The V2 Beam Splitter goes for $379 / €399 / £369 and equivalent, should be widely in distribution already!
You can read up more on the Beam Splitter on the OBNE Website.
Key Features
- Triple tracking overdrive/distortion pedal
- 3 different parallel drive/distortion sections with individual gain, delay and selectable outputs
- Drive I - hard clipping distortion, core gain sound
- Drive II - both soft and hard clipping overdrive, with a light and bright tone
- Drive III - transistor overdrive - most dynamically reactive with a fuzz like gain quality
- Two independent Delays, with Time and Feedback controls
- Delay Select Switch, to choose which of the drives are delayed
- Offers triple-tracked drive tones with flanging, chorusing or broken vibrato style sounds
- 3 Footswitches with selectable functions
- Expression control over all the main knobs
- MIDI control over all parameters
- Presets - up to 3 on board and up to 127 via MIDI
- Trails or True Bypass with soft touch relay switching
- Made in the USA
- Powered by 9V DC PSU (centre -, 2.1 mm, 350 mA current draw, not supplied)
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