Old Blood Noise Limited Edition Dark Light Dual Reverb Pedal Overview
The Dark Light is a dual reverb pedal that combines the awe-inspiring sonic qualities of both the Dark Star and Sunlight reverb pedals, seamlessly integrating, tweaking and expanding them to create one massive multi-reverb device. Dark Light is available as a limited edition of 2.000 pcs. worldwide.
With all the routing options you could want, including separate stereo, parallel mono, and series mono, Dark Light takes Dark Star’s dark pitch shifted, delayed, and bit crushed reverb voices and Sunlight’s bright modulated, comb filtered, and band-passed reverb voices and combines them into one massive sound to take your time with and drift away in.
Each pedal maintains its core sound and control set, then expands from there.
Main Features:
- Dual Reverb effects pedal
- Combines the Dark Star and Sunlight pedals into one pedal housing
- Limited Edition of only 2000 pcs. worldwide
- Completely independent core sound and control set for both sides
- 3 Dark Star side modes
- Pitch - adds two pitch-shifted voices to the reverb
- Delay - adds a post-reverb delay capable of self-oscillating
- Crush - degrades the quality of the reverb with adjustable pitch shift and amount of degradation
- 3 Sunlight side modes
- Tape - adds modulation inspired by unexpected tape machine wobbling
- Comb - adds four short delay lines after the reverb creating a comb filter of a fixed phaser
- Pass - adds a Band-Pass Filter between the two reverb blocks with random sample and hold LFO setting the filters cutoff frequency
- Multiple routing options available using the sides’ independent IN and OUT jacks
- True Stereo
- Series Mono
- Parallel Mono
- Mono to Stereo
- SPREAD control for defining separation of the two sides – for isolating the two reverb sides in stereo routing, creating a Phantom center sound or providing more defined tones in mono routing scenarios
- Expression control over any combination of 2 of each pedals parameters
- HOLD Footswitch for instantly setting the reverb decay of both sides to infinite independently or together
- Soft-touch switching with switchable relay-based True Bypass/Buffered Trails Bypass
- Powered by regular 9 V DC PSU
(Center -, 2,1 mm, ~150 mA current draw)
Dark Light can be routed in many ways using the independent IN and OUT jacks of the Sunlight and Dark Star sides. Using all jacks, signal can be routed as True Stereo or Series Mono. Using just one IN-OUT pair, signal can be routed in Parallel Mono. When using one INPUT and both OUTPUTs, a Mono signal can be split to Stereo with Sunlight on one side and Dark Star on the other.
The pedal’s SPREAD control helps with this stereo separation. In stereo routing scenarios, this control will set the depth of the stereo field. All the way up, signal is completely isolated across Dark Star and Sunlight. All the way down, signal is equal on both sides, creating a phantom center. When routing in mono, we recommend setting this knob all the way down, if using Parallel Mono and all the way up for Series Mono routing.
Dark Light’s left and right footswitches turn the individual sides on and off. When tapped, they operate as standard latching footswitch. However, when held, they momentarily change the bypass state, returning to the original state after the switch is let go.
The pedal’s middle footswitch can indefinitely hold the reverb trails of both sides independently or together. Set the HOLD toggle to determine which side is affected by the footswitch. This footswitch can also be tapped for latching operation or held for momentary operation, and the LEDs above it will indicate when the reverb trail is held for each side.
The EXP jack can be used to externally control any combination of the CTRL 1, CTRL 2, Decay (Dark Star), Decay (Sunlight), Rate, Depth and Input controls, by connecting a TRS expression pedal with signal on the tip. By default, it is set to control CTRL 1 and Depth, but assigning your own expression functionality can be quickly and simply accomplished by holding down all three footswitches for about five seconds until the HOLD LEDs begin to blink.
A switch inside the pedal allows reverb trails to continue after the pedal is turned off. By default, Dark Light’s trails are ON and the pedal is Buffered Bypass when off. To cut reverb off when bypassed, set the switch to off. In this mode the pedal will be True Bypass.
