Old Blood Noise Endeavors announces Float dual moving filter pedal

July 28, 2022 · 4 sources

Old Blood Noise Endeavors announced the Float Dual Moving Filter on July 28, 2022. Guitar.com and Guitar World describe it as the company's first digitally controlled analog pedal¹², and MusicRadar reports it is the result of two years of work³.

The pedal has two independent filters, each with controls for filter type, cutoff frequency, LFO rate, envelope sensitivity, LFO shape, resonance and volume³¹². Each filter can be set to low pass, band pass or high pass, and the cutoff can move via six LFO shapes or envelope triggering³⁴. A sync toggle links the LFO or envelope elements of Filter 1 to Filter 2, and a min/max toggle shapes the LFO and envelope range³¹². MusicRadar and Guitar.com both note hidden settings for LFO phase and envelope speed³¹. An expression jack controls cutoff or rate for each filter³¹.

Output can be true stereo, parallel mono or series mono, with top-mounted jacks³¹. Guitar World lists individual true relay bypass footswitches for each side². MusicRadar notes that bypassing the modulation and envelope sections leaves the dual sliders to work as a dual-band EQ³.

OBNE's own description of the range, as quoted by MusicRadar, covers "quacky auto-wahs, shooting sonic laser beams or organically rising and falling filter landscapes" and "a mind-bending modulation device that can become everything from a phaser, a harmonic tremolo, a choppy or bubbly step-filter or an automated synth-like sweeper"³.

The Float is available now for $299³¹². Gearnews lists the same $299 figure⁴.