Old Blood Noise Endeavors BL-37 Reverb

The Old Blood Noise Endeavors BL-37 is a reverb pedal that features modulation at two points in the reverb trail to give a wandering, lush reverb unlike any of OBNEs other reverbs, with a simplified control set. The Clock slider is the key to its magic, moving from a quick, tile-bathroom echo out to a dark, lofi-stretched reverb, unlike any space in existence.

The modulated reverb can be quick and highly reflective or slow and stretchy with noticeable pitched undulations. The sheer audacity of sound, to fill a room, to fill our heads, to fill our hearts. To act digitally as if tangible, as if these walls could talk, as if this were a real space and not a series of all-pass filters and modulated delays meant to capture the idea of somewhere we’d been before and something we’d done before and something we were before, as if. To give control over the whole thing, to simply stretch by hand the entire clock! It’s a heck of a concept really.

BL-37 is a reverb pedal. It is lush but also ringy, and easily stretchable. It modulates, and sometimes that modulation feels certain, an obvious pitch bend, while other times it washes, simply a shimmering softening element. The control set for BL-37 is simple. A Clock slider sets the timing of the entire system – the sample rate that determines signal fidelity, the timing of the reverb, and the speed of the modulation within that reverb are all affected as the slider slides.