Old Blood Noise Endeavors launches Beam Splitter Triple Tracker Distortion

October 19, 2023 · 3 sources

Old Blood Noise Endeavors launched the Beam Splitter Automatic Triple Tracker Distortion, a distortion pedal reported on October 19, 2023¹². Guitar World described it as a stacked stompbox whose goal is to put three separate high gain voices under one roof¹.

The pedal takes the input signal and makes three copies of it, each with its own overdrive character². The three drive sections are color-coded. Purple is a hard-clipping distortion with Gain, Volume and Tone knobs, described as the heaviest and most compressed option and the core tone of the pedal¹. Green is a soft-clipping overdrive with Gain and Volume plus Time and Decay controls¹². Blue is a transistor overdrive, called the most neutral and reactive, with the same Gain, Volume, Time and Decay knobs¹². The delay runs up to 125ms¹³. A Deviate knob varies the delay times at random in the Blue and Green sections and can be controlled with an expression pedal¹².

MusicRadar counted 13 dials, a Gain toggle switch and a soft-touch footswitch³. The three drives can run in parallel to one output or be split to three separate outputs through top-mounted jacks¹². Gearnews said the pedal needs a 150mA 9V DC center negative 2.1mm power supply, which is not included².

The Beam Splitter is priced at $229¹²³. Gearnews reported it was available to order directly from OBNE and would be available from retailers soon². MusicRadar listed it as available now³.