Old Blood Noise Endeavors releases Beam Splitter V2 stereo distortion

August 11, 2026 · 3 sources

Old Blood Noise Endeavors released the Beam Splitter V2, a stereo distortion pedal, on August 11, 2026, at a US list price of $379.00¹²³. It is a revised version of the company's Beam Splitter, a parallel multi-drive pedal²³.

The pedal takes one input and makes three copies of it, running them through three different overdrive voices, with two of the copies sent through individual delay lines¹. Output can be kept in parallel mono, spread in stereo, or split into three outputs, which the maker calls "trereo"¹. Input can be mono or stereo, with stereo collapsed to mono when the pedal is on¹.

Each drive section has Gain, Volume and Tone controls¹. Each delay has Time and Feedback controls, with delay time up to 211mS¹. A Deviate control randomly varies the delay time, and a Spread control sets the amount of stereo spread¹. A Delay Select control chooses which drives are delayed¹. The pedal has buffered trails or true bypass switching, presets, expression control over every knob, and MIDI control over everything in the pedal¹. It requires a 9V DC center negative 2.1mm jack power supply capable of 350mA, not included¹. The art is by Dustin Charles¹.

Delicious Audio reported that the third drive was revoiced for a wider gain range, the noise floor was lowered, and the architecture was overhauled with full digital control². It reported a three-footswitch layout for toggling individual drives or scrolling presets, onboard storage for three presets expandable to 127 via MIDI, and expression assignment for any knob². Guitar Pedal X described the three drives as hard clipping distortion, a combination of soft and hard clipping overdrive, and a transistor overdrive leaning toward fuzz, and listed MIDI in and out on mini TRS, USB-C and an expression jack among the ports³. It reported the pedal is made in the USA³.