Shining bright like its predecessor, the Old Blood Noise Dark Star is a multi-dimensional evolution on one of Old Blood's fan favorite effects. Building off of the original Dark Star, this latest, larger, and expanded version of the OBN reverb is a marvel of moody, harrowed reverberation with functions old and new.

Expanding on the first Old Blood Noise Dark Star, this new version punches well above its weight class in a sleek, celestial-patterned casing. This Dark Star builds up its effect interface arrangement with new controls and parameters to serve players new and familiar to the Dark Star experience.

At its core, the Dark Star is a reverb that leans into the darker sides of the effect. The three-mode toggling of the original Dark Star is absent from this model, as Old Blood Noise pursued a more holistic order of operations with each of the previous Dark Star's three reverb modes present from the get-go in a single proverbial cauldron of sound. Dedicated dials across the Dark Star's face allow for mixing in all of the iconic pitch-shifting, bit-crushing, and delaying sweetness the original Dark Star is known for.

The Dark Star goes beyond its established sounds with new parameters to tinker and play with like Filter, Multiply, and Spread. Across these new functions, the Dark Star spans a massive spectrum for players looking to get in on great modulated, delayed, deep, dark reverbs that range from sugary to sinister. Old Blood's patented weirdness is intact with the Dark Star, and for that, we are psyched.

From here, some of the Dark Star's more technical flourishes come to light. Onboard, the Dark Star features stereo input and output for integrating into your most complex and thorough stereo rigs. The Dark Star also loads in expression and MIDI control over all possible parameters to get expressive and experimental with all it has to offer. While you're messing with MIDI, you can try out some of the presets available via MIDI connection. Soft-touch switching keeps things clean while standard nine Volt center negative DC power operation slides this pedal into your rig simply.

Star light, star bright, these stars are dark tonight. Set course with this bigger and badder version of an Old Blood classic and start seeing stars yourself!

• Expanded version of Old Blood Noise Dark Star modulated reverb
• Centralized pitch shift, bit-crush, and delay reverb effects
• Mono and stereo routing with mono/stereo input/outputs
• Expression pedal connection with control over all parameters
• MIDI connection with preset access and parameter control
• Two octave up and down pitch-shifting range
• Standard nine Volt DC center negative power operation