Think you don’t need another delay pedal? Old Blood Noise Endeavours’ trippy new “Liminal Delay” Bathing might change your mind
Old Blood Noise Endeavors (OBNE), the makers of the cult-favourite Dweller phase repeater, have returned with Bathing, a “Liminal Delay” pedal that’s anything but ordinary.
Described as “perhaps a reverb, or a phaser, or a classic delay, but never exactly any one of these things”, Bathing brings you a style of effect unique to the Old Blood lineup.
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The pedal draws inspiration from the “phase repetition” found in Dweller, taking this difficult-to-describe effect and highlighting all its magical features through a wide control set, low noise floor and an expansive stereo field.
You pick the overall delay time, the number of all-pass filter stages it runs through to get there (from 2 to 12), and how you want to modulate the character of those stages. Fewer stages create tight, flanged tones while longer times and more stages generate cascading repeats both before and after the central delay.
There’s also a Feedback control for you to feed the delay output back into the input (which creates longer trails and increased resonance), a Filter to darken or brighten the character of the delay, and a powerful LFO section that shifts the character of the delay repeats depending on your time setting.
When Time is very short, the LFO acts like a modulation effect (think phaser or flanger sounds). When Time is set longer, it moves anywhere from a single repeat at the central delay time out, to a scattering of many diffused repeats around that time. In Mono-in, Stereo-out or full Stereo modes, the LFO is offset across the left and right channels to create a variety of stereo effects.
Beyond all that, Bathing is also built for serious pedalboard integration. It features Stereo I/O with analogue dry-through, presets, MIDI control over everything including MIDI clock sync, and expression control over every knob.
Priced at $299, the pedal comes shipped in three dreamy colourways – Algae, Orchid, and Ink.
Dive into the Bathing and all its magic below.
Learn more at Old Blood Noise.
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