OBNE: Dark Light. No-Chat

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For the uninitiated, Old Blood Noise Endeavours make a couple of fully featured reverb pedals called Dark Star and Sunlight, respectively. Both are popular and both are now consolidated in this mammoth stereo outing they call Dark Light. You can run the pedal in full stereo or mono and there's a 'Spread' control to help determine the stereo field. Each side of the pedal features three different reverb-y algorithms ranging from tape warble through to pitch shifting and sample-hold burbles. It's a ton of fun and quite inspiring if you're into textural ambience and that sort of thing. This demo attempts to take you on a tour of the Dark and Light sides and then a little mixing and matching. The potential for this video to be hours long was real but I've capped it at 13 minutes or so in the hope that you'll get the idea. Great work, OBNE! No wonder they're already backordered.
Today's tools:
Guitar: 2023 Fender Vintera II 60's Stratocaster with JJ's Fat Toney Set pickups (www.jjsguitarp...).
Amp: Axe-FX III Turbo running Cygnus X-2 24.05. Deluxe Reverb amp model. Dark Light inserted post cab block as a stereo fx loop.
Cables: BOSS
Strings: Ernie Ball 10-46
Pick: Signature Honey Pick www.honey-pick...
Mic: Audix USA PDX720 - audixusa.com/p...
Camera: GoPro HERO10 + Sony ZV-1M2 x 2
Soundcard: PreSonus Quantum 26x32 (No longer available)
Desktop Monitors: PreSonus R80 R-Series Active AMT Studio Monitors - www.presonus.com
Monitor Control: SPL 2Control - spl.audio/en/s...
Headphones: Audix A150 - audixusa.com/p...
All Stands: Gravity Stands - www.gravitysta...
Computer: 2017 Apple iMac Pro, 2.5 GHz 14-Core Intel Xeon W, 64 GB 2666 MHz DDR4, Radeon Pro Vega 64X 16 GB
All of my Fractal Audio Presets (free): axechange.frac...

[@mariodriessen9740]

This is so much fun! I would lose myself completely for hours and hours just tweaking knobs and creating soundscapes, while sitting there in awe. IN AWE!!! ❤❤❤

[@baabaabaa-yp2jh]

Mate ld have a field day with this!!
Nearly got seasick @ 2:30!!
Cracker of a pedal!!

[@nostro1001]

I just came to see how you'd tackle this pedal. I've had the dark star for years and sunlight for a few years, so I know them pretty well.
I think this combo unit looks very daunting for those not familiar. I don't think I would have taken the plunge if this was it, unless 'ambient' soundscapes was all one played & endless tweaking was your thing!
Cheers Brett. 🎸🎸🎸

[@charteredvessel]

Good to see a thorough stereo demo of the Dark Light. I’ve had mine for a couple of weeks. I noticed the pedal seems to get stuck in hold mode at certain times. Mine reacts in a similar way. All in all it’s a fun unit to experiment with even though it has some quirks.

[@BrettKingman]

Thanks for watching. Regarding the Hold thing: A quick twist of the Decay or Input controls usually releases it. If the Decay is up high it won't release at all as it's likely gone into self-oscillation.

[@veraandtony]

This sounds killer over my home theater setup

[@NSRider24]

Your demo of this pedal is the best one I've watched for guitars so far. Amazing tones here!

[@BrettKingman]

Thanks for watching and for the kind words. Cheers.

[@Fender420]

Nice