Dr. No Effects Moon Canyon "Blood Moon" edition

The Blood Moon edition is a finish variant of the regular Moon Canyon, with a sparkle dark blue coating, a red Blood Moon moon-cycle light on a gold leaf background, and four blue LED footswitches¹. It is sold out: only 350 Moon Canyons were made in total, by hand, between 2018 and 2025, and the Blood Moon series accounted for 50 of them¹.

Overdrive, reverb and delay in one box with an FX loop

The signal chain inside the Moon Canyon runs in a fixed order: overdrive first, then the FX loop, then reverb, then delay¹. The FX loop is switchable by footswitch, positioned after the overdrive and before the reverb and delay, so you can insert other pedals into the middle of the chain or bypass the loop entirely¹². When the loop is engaged, its switch ring lights up red¹.

Each section does its own job:

• Overdrive: Dr. No Effects describes it as very transparent and extremely suitable for dynamic playing, voiced to work with the reverb and delay that follow it³.
• Reverb: A single-knob digital reverb based on a high quality Belton reverb brick, voiced as a "Long" reverb. The maker says that with a nice amplifier or multiple amps it can sound like playing in a cathedral¹. Guitar.com likewise noted it "is capable of cathedral-filling atmospheres"⁴.
• Delay: A digital delay that the maker says has analog sounding characteristics, with a repeats control that can be pushed into self-oscillation¹.

At the end of the chain there are two mono outputs. Dr. No Effects suggests using two amps, "like Noveller is using," or running one output to an amp and the other into a new chain of effects and then to a second amp¹. Guitar Pedal X's rundown of the pedal listed the same feature set: transparent drive, loop, reverb, digital delay, and Out II for two amps⁵.

The controls

The three sections are laid out with their own knobs and footswitches. Guitar Pedal X summarized the control set as Drive, Volume and Tone knobs plus a Tone switch (bass boost) and drive footswitch for the drive section, a Level knob and reverb footswitch for the reverb, and the delay controls⁵.

The delay's oscillation behavior is a feature the maker points to directly: turning Repeats to max, or turning the knob while a signal runs through, creates what Dr. No Effects calls "a killer oscillation," and with Time turned while a signal runs through above 2 o'clock, "oscillation heaven"¹. Guitar.com confirmed the delay "is capable of self-oscillation"⁴.

Power: 9V only, 400mA minimum

The Moon Canyon runs on 9 volts only, from an isolated and stabilized power supply delivering at least 400mA, through a 2.1mm jack with negative tip and positive sleeve¹. Dr. No Effects is blunt about the current requirement: below 400mA the pedal will not function correctly¹.

The Blood Moon edition and the Moon Canyon series

The Moon Canyon was two years in the making, according to MusicRadar, and first went on sale on the full moon of May 30, 2018 at Dr. No's own webshop²³. The whole line was a limited run of 350 handbuilds, signed and numbered, each supplied in a Moon Canyon book box with a numbered certificate of authenticity². The maker describes the pedal as "a Novel by Dr. No Effects in collaboration with Sarah Lipstate (Noveller)," concept, execution and 100% hand manufactured by Dr. No Effects¹.

The 350 pedals were released in series of 50, and the Blood Moon finish marks three of them¹³:

All series are sold out¹³. Guitar Pedal X reported in June 2025 that production was ending "after 104 Mooncycles, with a final flurry of 15 units," and described the Blood Moon Edition as the version "with darker coloured moon"⁵. The very last pedal, numbered 350/350, was itself a Blood Moon Edition unit; Dr. No announced it as "the last Moon Canyon you'll ever see," and kept number 01/350 for himself⁶. The edition ended in 2025 after the 350 handbuilds were complete⁷.

The Blood Moon edition's distinguishing features against the original Moon Canyon are cosmetic: the sparkle dark blue coating, the red Blood Moon moon-cycle light on a gold leaf background, and four blue LED footswitches¹. The maker later released a small number of archive units, including Blood Moon editions, describing that as the only opportunity to get one, and sells a replacement book box as merchandise for both the Moon Canyon and Blood Moon Canyon⁸.

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