In truth, we are okay. But you've got to give the people what they want. And it seems that they unfortunately have asked for an explanation from OBNE as to what the Dark Star truly does. It does a lot. So, we spent an evening with friends and family in the cold dark of a small shed really hashing it out. On camera.
With help from Atria Creative, we present the Dark Star Pad Reverb Technical Demo.
The Dark Star is what we would use to create long reverberated pads. The noises underneath the lead. The mood setter. That's the Dark Star. The way a song feels. That's because of the Dark Star.
At its heart, the Dark Star is a Reverb. Then the Reverb signal passes through three possible modes: Pitch, Delay and Crush. CTRL 1 and CTRL 2 correspond with the selected mode. In Pitch, you've got two independent pitch controls for + and - an octave. In Delay, you've got the Delay Time and Delay Feedback. In Crush, you've got a pitch control for +/- an octave and then a control for Bit Crush. The Mix and Reverb knobs control the mix of dry/wet signal and the decay of the reverb, respectively.
The Dark Star has two footswitches. The Bypass switch is your standard on/off True Bypass switch. The Hold switch is a momentary footswitch that when pressed, will lock in whatever note is being played through the reverb effect. This will sustain as long as the Hold switch is pressed. If the Mix control is set less than 100% wet, you can continue to play over the sustaining reverb signal.
And there you have it. Special thanks to the two dogs in this video, Bentley and Hilda.
Dark Star is available at http://oldbloodnoise.com/pedals and at participating retailers around the world.
Video by Old Blood Noise Endeavors and Atria Creative
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