Old Blood Noise Endeavors Float Dual Moving Filter

Description

Old Blood Noise Endeavors FLOAT Dual Moving Filter

Dual Moving Filter

A Filter Effect Redux Applying their predilection for parallel signals to the world of filters and broadening out to full stereo, Old Blood Noise Endeavors unveils its first digitally controlled analog pedal. Float boasts two independently controllable filters and numerous movement capabilities. By using the two filters in tandem, you can create stereo movement, paired reactive elements, and modulations bordering on harmonic tremolo and phaser, as well as classic-sounding filters.

Filters... how could we improve a genre of pedals we've never participated in? Should we? Of course, we knew all about those sharp quacks and soft wows, plus the synth players among us are well familiar with resonant sweeps. But, as our friends kept telling us, slow dual movements, controls that go a little further left than expected, parallel undulations, as well as other curves, were still entirely unexplored territories.

So, applying our predilection for parallel signals to the world of filters and broadening out to full stereo, we present Float, our new Dual Moving Filter pedal. As OBNE's first digitally controlled analog pedal, Float boasts two independently controllable filters and several features for movement. By using the two filters in tandem, you can create stereo movement, linked reactive elements, and unearthly psychedelic modulations. The two independent filters can be set to low-pass, band-pass, or high-pass. The core of each filter is its cutoff frequency, which can remain still or move through its 6 different LFO shapes or through its dynamic Envelope trigger. The envelope sections can unleash quacky auto-wahs, firing sonic laser beams or organically oscillating filter soundscapes – all triggered by your playing. Its LFOs allow Float to become a psychedelic modulation device capable of ranging from phaser to harmonic tremolo, from erratic and bubbling step-filter to a synth-like automatic sweeper. However, let's leave aside the modulation or envelope sections, and the dual sliders come into play. This allows you to use Float as a dual-band EQ to shape the sound from subtle to extreme, as a manual filter to achieve futuristic filter sweeps on the fly, or even for old-school wah sounds.

Each filter also features a resonance control, allowing you to bring to life smooth and velvety filters, vocal formants, screaming sonic shrieks, and everything in between. All of this is quite familiar, but also quite sweet. Like a fusion of all things good and dirty. But where things start to get really different and really fun is when you mess with the synchronization and routing of the two filters. By flicking that little switch labeled Sync to On, the two filters will move like tonal twins - locked, precise, and uniform. This allows you to create robotic sequencer-like textures, trippy double modulations, or ultra-long but perfectly timed filtering maneuvers.

You can also set it to Off and have them rotate freely for organic textures or total cacophonous filters. Additionally, the filters can be run in mono parallel, mono series, or stereo for all kinds of refined dual movements, chaotic cascading filters, or lush and dreamy stereo sweeps. To complete this veritable playground of filters, we've added an expression input port, allowing you to hands-free control the cutoff frequency or LFO Rate, enabling you to keep the floating filter modulation as expressive as the music you're playing. So, this is Float... or at least it's the essence of Float.

We're sure you'll pull sounds out of this thing that we didn't even know it was capable of, because it does a lot of good, weird, wild, tame, ugly, and absolutely stunning stereo stuff. Float on, friends!

Specifications

• Dual Moving Filter pedal

• Two independent filters, each with control over: filter type, cutoff frequency LFO rate, envelope sensitivity, LFO shape, resonance, and volume

• True stereo, parallel mono, or series mono modes with top-mounted jacks

• Min/max switch for precise LFO and envelope range intervention

• Sync switch to link LFO or envelope elements of Filter 1 to Filter 2

• Expression jack for external control of Cut-off or Rate for each filter

• Soft touch switching with true relay bypass

• Hidden settings for LFO phase and envelope speed

• Pedalboard-friendly dimensions

• Made in the USA

• Powered by 9V DC PSU (center -, 2.1 mm, ~100 mA draw)