Old Blood Noise Endeavors retires the original Dark Star

January 1, 2024 · 1 sources

Old Blood Noise Endeavors retired the original Dark Star in early 2024, the maker states on its Dark Light product page. The company says it let Dark Light live on as an option of that original circuit and sound¹.

Dark Light is a dual reverb combining the Dark Star and Sunlight circuits. The maker describes Dark Star's voices as dark, pitch shifted, delayed and bit crushed, and Sunlight's as bright, modulated, comb filtered and bandpassed, with each side keeping its core sound and control set¹. Routing options are separate stereo, parallel mono and series mono, with independent in and out routing for each side and automatic parallel mono when only one input is used¹.

Controls include wet and dry volumes for each side, replacing the previous Mix control, a Spread control for stereo spread, a Hold switch for indefinite trails while the pedal is engaged, and a Hold toggle to choose Dark Star, Sunlight or both. An expression jack can control any combination of Ctrl 1, Ctrl 2, Decay, Rate, Depth or Input. The footswitches are soft-touch for true bypass¹. The pedal requires a 9V DC center negative 2.1mm power supply capable of 150mA, not included, and the art is by Jon Carling¹.

The page lists Dark Light at $350.00 and marked Sold Out¹. It also states that from 09/05/25 to 10/15/25 the pedal was made available again in a new colorway, and that the maker has "big changes looming for Sunlight" but wanted an opportunity to get that original Sunlight sound in a special way¹.