Old Blood Noise Endeavors Beam Splitter V2 Shadow

Beam Splitter V2: "Further Adventures in Trereo", the evolution of a cult OBNE concept

The original Beam Splitter won over guitarists by offering a simple and brilliant idea: stacking multiple "takes" of a guitar, but within a single pedal, blending parallel drives and time offsets to achieve enormous width from a mono input. With the Beam Splitter V2, Old Blood Noise Endeavors takes this concept even further: improved tones, reduced noise floor, and above all, a modern integration designed for today's pedalboards (MIDI, presets, expression).
The spirit remains the same: recreating the sensation of a guitar recorded multiple times, with slight differences in grain, dynamics, and timing. But here, everything is more controllable, more "steerable," and significantly more ambitious when exploiting stereo routings or the famous "Trereo" (an OBNE proprietary system that opens the door to diffusion over three outputs).

Who is the Beam Splitter V2 made for and what styles?

The Beam Splitter V2 is aimed at musicians who love textured drives, wide sounds, and effects that truly transform the perception of a riff or chord. It will delight guitarists in indie, shoegaze, post-rock, ambient, noise, as well as those seeking a creative drive to modernize a rock or alternative sound.
In the studio, it is formidable for "doubling" a track without re-recording, creating pseudo-unisons, or inventing guitar layers that place themselves perfectly in the mix. In live settings, it becomes a machine for opening up space: a single footswitch and your sound shifts from a classic drive to a wide harmonic pad, lively and almost chorused... without losing attack clarity.
If you play on a stereo rig (two amps, two interface inputs, two monitors), or enjoy "wet/dry" configurations, this is clearly a pedal to consider as a priority. And if you are a fan of more complex systems, the arrival of MIDI and presets in V2 changes the game: the Beam Splitter becomes programmable, recallable, and much easier to integrate into a set.

Technical specifications

Effects	Delay, Distortion, Overdrive	Type	Mains or battery
Format	Pedal	Use	electric guitar
Number of tracks	3	Color	Black
EQ	Tone

Drive 1	hard-clipping distortion (heavier and more compressed)	Input	6.35mm jack
Drive 2	soft- and hard-clipping overdrive (lighter and brighter, can approach clean boost at low gain)	Outputs	up to 3 outputs (mono, stereo, or " Trereo " configurations)
Drive 3	transistor overdrive (the most dynamic, with a texture that can evoke fuzz as the gain increases)	Expression	control over all main settings
Dedicated controls for each section	Gain, Volume, Tone	MIDI	control of all parameters
Deviate control	random variation of the delay time for unstable flanger/chorus/vibrato-style effects	Presets	up to 3 stored in internal memory, up to 127 via MIDI
Spread control	stereo image width (wider or narrower)	Selectable bypass	Trails or True Bypass