Old Blood Noise Dweller Phase Repeater

Old Blood Noise Dweller is a phase repeater. What?!

This means it’s a phaser and a delay, but also a lot of wonderful and creative stuff in between. However, it’s not a simple combination of the two effects, with one running into the other. Instead this is a mega hybrid pedal from the this exciting American maker that sees the delay lines actually run in between each phasing stage, allowing you to stretch out the spacing between each stage. It’s never been done before and it’s capable of creating immense beauty.

The Old Blood Noise Dweller magic control is the Stretch knob, which sets the delay time between each phasing stage. At the minimum you get totally no delay, which makes the pedal act as a normal vintage or modern sounding phaser—with Depth and Regen determining the intensity of the phasing. But then, as you increase the Stretch, you unlock endless ambient textures residing somewhere between smeary multi-tap delays, pulsating tremolo landscapes and glitched-out sweeping atmospheres. You really have to hear it to fully understand its sonic beauty. Check out the video below.

But then we also have a voice switch, which toggles between 4-stage and 8-stage phasing and a shape switch. This selects between sine, triangle and random step wave. These switches greatly affect the sound and also the feel of Dweller, letting you create everything from classic phasing, random step filter sequences, thick vibey sounds and organic vibratos.

Express Yourself
Finally, there’s an expression input which lets you take control over the Stretch control on the fly. Letting you go from classic phasing to long and smeary ambient textures, simply with your foot.

The output level can be tweaked via an internal trim-pot for boost, slight drop, or unity gain. Just another little touch that this amazing boutique pedal builder packs in.

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