Old Blood Noise Endeavors Float Dual Moving Filter

An OBNE Approach: The Analog Moving Filter with Precise Control

The Float marks an important milestone for Old Blood Noise Endeavors: it is their first analog pedal with digital control. The idea is simple (and incredibly effective): retain the grain, response, and warmth of an analog circuit while offering fine control over movement through modern control. Where a classic filter often only offers one curve and one dynamic, the Float provides two filters that you can animate separately or together for broader, deeper, and more inspiring effects.

Which Guitarists (and Styles) Is the Float Made For?

The Float is aimed equally at curious musicians and sound design enthusiasts. If you play funk, neo-soul, or rock, you will quickly find expressive filter sounds that respond to pick attack and playing nuances. In ambient, post-rock, or electronic music, its dual modulation engine becomes an ideal playground for creating slow stereo movements, organic pulses, and continuously evolving textures.

Live, the stereo and routing options allow you to fill the space without raising volume, and the expression input opens the door to clean, controlled transitions. In the studio, the Float excels on guitars, synths, drum machines, and effects buses whenever precise filtered movement is sought without losing analog character.

Controls, Modes, and Tips: Two Filters, a Thousand Scenarios

The heart of the Float is its two independently controllable filters. Each has dedicated settings to sculpt tone and animate sound: filter type, cutoff frequency, resonance, and volume for shaping, plus dual animation via LFO (speed + shape) and envelope (sensitivity) to respond to your attack. The result: you can choose one filter to be very reactive and "talking" on one side, and another slower and deeper on the other, or have them work in tandem for coherent movement.

To go further, OBNE added features designed for precision: the Min/Max toggle defines the action range of the LFO and envelope to avoid too wide a sweep or, conversely, to exaggerate movement for more pronounced effects. The synchronization toggle links the LFO or envelope elements of filter 1 to filter 2, useful for "linked" modulations that remain musical even with complex settings.

The expression input provides immediate external control: you can drive the cutoff or frequency of each filter for rises, falls, controlled "sweep" effects, or smooth transitions mid-song. Finally, hidden settings allow fine-tuning of the LFO phase and envelope speed, a major asset for optimizing the sense of movement and rhythmic coherence according to your playing.

Sound Character

The Float delivers filtered modulation with an analog character : dynamics remain lively, touch response is natural, and resonance can range from subtle coloration to more expressive peaks without losing control thanks to the Min/Max range settings. In stereo, it excels at creating a very organic width movement : alternating sweeps between left and right, a sense of rotation, or linked modulation reminiscent of certain phaser and harmonic tremolo sensations when both filters interact. In series mono, you get denser, sculpted textures perfect for highlighting rhythm or adding a "synthetic" edge to a lead line.

Technical specifications

Effects	Envelope / Auto-wah, Effects	Type	sector
Technology	Analog & Digital	Use	electric guitar
Format	Pedal	Color	Green
EQ	Filter

Hidden settings	LFO phase and envelope speed	Required power supply	9V DC (center negative)
Power supply	not included	Minimum current	100 mA