Parting is such sweet sorrow – same as it ever was – with the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Parting Glitch Device! The Old Blood Parting, an all-in-one glitch-flavored multi-effect with concurrent onboard reverb, delay, and modulation effect engines, comes together as a definite labor of love from both the crew at Old Blood and electroacoustic harpist Emily Hopkins. Parting is made to foster welcomed surprises, boundless exploration, and heartwarming peculiarities as a robust glitch effect engine readymade to send yourself onto new sonic pastures.

Emily Hopkins, gear internet's favorite electroacoustic, effects-fluent harpist, commonly calls on Old Blood Noise Endeavors effect pedals in her work scoring for animation, video games, and theatric feature releases. Old Blood raises their glass to Hopkins with Parting, a widely multifaceted glitch effect pedal with a few different brain hemispheres so effortlessly customizable for extensive textural musicmaking.

The central experience of Parting is centered around a conversation between its two main effect engines: A modulator and a glitch effect. On the pedal's "left-side" brain, we're treated to the groovily bent tones of its rich LFO modulator that swaps between a tremolo and a vibrato. Old Blood's classic LFO modulation wizardry is on full display with seven onboard waveform shapes for running the gamut from more traditional sawtooths to fully randomized squares and sines. This modulator can be either a rhythmic tremolo or a twisty vibrato shaped into different subdivisions through the Rate control's secondary function.

For the pedal's "right-side" brain, Parting empowers us with great glitching abilities with its glitch reverb and delay. Doubling down, Parting's glitch effect summons enormous squalls of broken-up feedback with the possibility for randomized ramps of sound, as determined by the Chance dial. These two brains are then funneled through the pedal's Dissolve dial which works either as a signal reverser when set after noon or a bit crusher when set before. Altogether, Parting makes for a vast, intricate wonderland of Hopkins's favorite textures and sounds with all the intuitive design and player-friendliness of Old Blood's classic effect pedals.

Parting features classic Old Blood control and playability with a built-up control scheme. An Aux footswitch allows for Parting to be controlled on a tap tempo basis, swapped to a half-speed internal effect clock, or shuffled through its internal preset bank. A TRS expression pedal can be connected via Parting's ¼" connection to access control over any combination of onboard dials at once. Parting can be routed in mono, stereo, and mono-in-stereo out via its TRS stereo input and output connections and operates on standard nine-volt DC center negative power supplies at 350mA, minimum.

Whether on your six strings or Hopkins's forty-seven, Parting is a masterful take on multi-effecting to drift away into serene, discordant, euphoric bliss.

• Old Blood Noise Endeavors x Emily Hopkins collaboration design
• Multi-mode effect pedal with tremolo, vibrato, reverb, delay, glitch, bit crush, and reverse modes
• Tremolo and vibrato modulation section with seven LFO waveform shapes
• Glitch delay/reverb section with random chance sound generation
• Bit crusher or reverse output effect section
• Auxiliary tap tempo, half speed, or preset switch footswitch
• 1/8" MIDI control connection and onboard preset bank access
• 1/4" TRS expression control over any combination of settings
• Selectable true or buffered bypass switching
• Standard nine-volt DC center negative power operation at 350mA minimum