Old Blood Noise Endeavors Stereo Sunlight

The Stereo Sunlight is a modulated stereo reverb pedal from Old Blood Noise Endeavors, hand-made in Oklahoma, USA¹. It is a full stereo evolution of the company's mono Sunlight reverb, combining elements of the Sunlight and the Procession into one pedal with added features¹. RockBoard's PedalPedia describes it as a dynamic hold reverb designed to create evolving ambient textures, with three reverb modes and responsive hold functionality that reacts to playing dynamics².

Guitar Pedal X's Stefan Karlsson reported it as the fourth pedal in OBNE's Square Stereo Series, following the Dark Start, Black Fountain and Bathing Liminal¹. Delicious Audio's Paolo De Gregorio called it "a stereo powerhouse that brings lightness, exhilarating motion, and a profound dynamic response to your sound," and positioned it as a counterpart to OBNE's Dark Star³.

What it does

The Stereo Sunlight is a reverb with modulation built in. RockBoard describes it as a dynamic hold reverb: the hold functionality responds to playing dynamics, letting you sustain and evolve ambient textures from your own touch². It carries over the Sunlight's character while adding true stereo processing and additional control over modulation and filtering compared with the original mono pedal².

Guitar Pedal X notes that it combines two of OBNE's ambient pedals, the Sunlight and Procession, "here enhanced with further features"¹. Karlsson also observed that each Square Stereo Series pedal is its own kind of complex, potent multi-FX, and that while the series members are distinct, they function as something like direct competitors with each other¹.

The controls

The pedal's knobs cover the dry signal, the reverb's decay and character, and the modulation section. Press coverage lists the control set as follows¹:

The Shape control's six waveform options give the modulation section a wide range, from tape-style wobble to random stepped movement¹. RockBoard summarizes the shaping controls as decay, input, filter and rate for shaping the reverb character².

Two footswitches handle the rest. An aux footswitch covers tap tempo, reverb hold and preset switching, alongside a standard on/off footswitch¹. An expression jack allows external control over selectable parameters, and the maker's page states there is expression control over every knob⁴².

Stereo routing, MIDI and power

The Stereo Sunlight runs stereo in and out with analog dry through, meaning your dry signal stays analog rather than being converted⁴. The TRS stereo input offers the option of mono or mono-in-stereo-out routing, so a single mono feed can drive a stereo output into two amps¹.

Connectivity goes well beyond the jacks¹:

• MIDI in and MIDI out, with MIDI clock in and out for external tempo sync
• MIDI control over all parameters
• USB-C port
• Expression input with control over all parameters
• Onboard presets

The power requirement is worth noting for pedalboard planning. The pedal requires a 9V DC center negative 2.1mm jack power supply capable of 350mA, and the supply is not included⁴. At 350mA it is a relatively hungry pedal, so check that your power supply has an isolated output with enough current before building it into a board.

The bypass is selectable between Buffered Trails and True Bypass modes, so you can decide whether reverb tails ring out after bypassing or the signal path is cut clean¹.

Versions and finishes

The standard model is the Maroon finish¹. RockBoard's PedalPedia also lists a Black version and a limited Yellow edition of the Sunlight Stereo⁵². The compact enclosure has top-mounted jacks for pedalboard integration².

Where it came from

The Stereo Sunlight grows out of two earlier OBNE pedals. The mono Sunlight provided the reverb architecture, and the Procession contributed elements of its ambient character, with the Stereo Sunlight adding stereo processing, presets, MIDI and deeper modulation and filtering control¹². Delicious Audio frames it as OBNE expanding the sonic palette of the original Sunlight reverb³.

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