Old Blood Noise Endeavors Beam Splitter – Distortion

The Old Blood Noise Endeavors Beam Splitter is an automatic triple-tracker distortion pedal that creates a massive sound.

It is three different takes on overdrive, voiced to work together perfectly.

Delay two in time, and run all three in parallel or split into three separate sources.

Beam Splitter takes a mono input and makes it wildly bigger than before. Things stretch in time and compress in dynamics. Get a rich harmonic wash without sacrificing clarity.

Feature

Triple tracking overdrive/distortion pedal •

• 3 different parallel drive/distortion sections with individual gain and volume controls and adjustable delay and individual outputs o Purple – hard clipping distortion – the pedal’s core gain sound o Green – soft or hard clipping overdrive with the light and bright sound o Blue – transistor Overdrive – most neutral and reactive with a medium gain range
• Offers triple-tracked drive tones with impressions of flanging, chorusing or broken vibrato, depending on the settings • Individually adjustable delay time on Green and Blue distortion sections
• Feedback controls for Green and Blue distortion sections to add intense filtering or trailing delays depending on Time setting
• Deviate Control for adjusting randomness of delay time variation in Blue and Green drive sections – for a more realistic sense of doubled players
• EXP input – for controlling Deviate knob remotely
• Relay bypass switching

Controls

• Gain, Volume, and Tone to shape the amount of distortion, overall volume, and brightness of each drive section
• Time to introduce delays up to 125mS on the green and blue sections
• Decay to add intense filtering or trailing delays, depending on Time
• Deviate to randomly vary the delay time, giving a more natural feel and chorus effect
• Top jacks for summed parallel mono output or split output for each drive
• Expression jack to externally control Deviate knob
• Soft-touch bypass footswitch for true bypass and minimal switch noise

Old Blood Noise Endeavors Distortion Types – 3 Beams!

PURPLE is a hard-clipping distortion that is the core gain sound of Beam Splitter.

Of the three gains, it is arguably the heaviest and most compressed. It has three controls, identified by their purple knobs and labels:

• Gain sets the amount of distortion. As it’s turned up, it also affects the voicing of the distortion, rounding off low end and increasing distortion in the mids and highs.
• Volume sets the overall output volume.
• Tone rolls off the high end as it is turned down. All the way down is a darker distortion, all the way up is full brightness.

GREEN is an overdrive with soft and hard clipping .

Of the three gains, it is the lightest and brightest. It has five controls, identified by their green knobs and labels:

• Gain sets the amount of overdrive. All the way down, it is almost a clean boost, and all the way up it is a medium overdrive with accentuation of the mids and highs.
• Volume sets the overall output volume.
• Tone rolls off the high end as it is turned down. All the way down is a darker drive, all the way up is full brightness.
• Time sets the delay time, up to 125 milliseconds. When blended in parallel with the other drives, this delay time can create anything from tight comb filters to loose doubling delays to short slapback. (See note on Deviate and how it affects timing.)
• Decay sets the feedback of the delay, from one repeat up to many repeats trailing off. In comb filter settings, this can increase resonance.

BLUE is a transistor overdrive

It is the most neutral and reactive, with a gain range somewhere in the middle. It has five controls, identified by their blue knobs and labels:

• Gain sets the amount of breakup. In the down setting, itis less overdriven, with less compression in the mids and highs. In the up setting, it is more overdriven and aggressive.
• Volume sets the overall output volume.
• Tone rolls off the high end as it is turned down. Down is a darker drive, all the way up is full brightness.
• Time sets the delay time, up to 125 milliseconds. When blended in parallel with the other drives, this delay time can create anything from tight comb filters to loose doubling delays to short slapback. (See note on Deviate and how it affects timing.)
• Decay sets the feedback of the delay, from one repeat up to many repeats trailing off. In comb filter settings, this can increase resonance.

There is one shared knob: DEVIATE.

Deviate sets the amount of random variation in the delay time of and the more it is turned
up, the further their delay times can deviate, and the faster those deviations happen.

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