...and I say, "It's all right"
Sunny days, chasing the clouds away. As we move into November and start slipping past the honeymoon phase of autumn, we start seeing the season's true colors. In the tri-state anyway, gorgeous autumnal reds and oranges give way to cloudy, waterlogged browns and greys every year without fail. It's a shame to watch the slim sliver of fall beauty come and go so quickly, but such is the time of year. Everyone's ideal pumpkin spice aesthetic has to cave eventually. On the upside, hot chocolate's on its way.
As daylight savings time rocks our circadian rhythms and confuses our pets, it's a pretty great time to start looking for some warmth and sunshine. Luckily for us, our favorite Oklahoman effect artists just dropped an evolution on their most illuminating reverb. Won't you join us?
This is the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Sunlight Stereo.
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A Thousand Suns
Introducing the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Sunlight Stereo Reverb
If you're just tuning in on Old Blood Noise Endeavors, just so you know, they've had a pretty busy 2025. Continuing on in a series of upgraded, stereo-minded effects after their Dark Star Stereo debuted in November of last year, Old Blood's 2025 has been punctuated with a number of dynamic and exciting stereo pedals in the styles of some of their most celebrated existing effects.
A Year in ReviewIn 2025, Old Blood has treated us to a great lineup of new pedals that build upon a couple of popular past releases' legacies. March dug up Old Blood's Black Fountain with the Black Fountain Stereo, August floated in Old Blood's Dweller with the Bathing, and September shone with the Dark Light. Old Blood's Black Fountain Stereo and Bathing dished out expanded and upgraded stereo-enabled versions of the brand's classic Black Fountain and Dweller pedals with special attention paid toward making their newer iterations far from just a re-do. The brand's upscaled stereo pedals set out to accomplish even greater tonal tasks with exciting, new Old Blood innovations at every step.
The Old Blood Noise Endeavors Sunlight Stereo picks up where their Dark Light left off. With the Dark Light, we saw Old Blood's original mono Dark Star and Sunlight reverbs paired up in a single casing with stereo routing upgrades. The limited release Dark Light set out to capture the experiences of these Old Blood classics right before they both were sunsetted now into their new, stereo forms. Today's Sunlight Stereo turns the page on Old Blood's 2025 and the Dark Star's sister effect, the Sunlight. The Sunlight Stereo follows in the example of the brand's most recent releases with new effect experiences, ultra-modern operation and playability, and plenty of charming Old Blood sonic sentiments translated along the way. Let's talk about it.
Good Day Sunshine
Old Blood Noise Endeavors Sunlight Stereo Reverb Design
The Sunlight Stereo bases the essence of its experience off its predecessor's effect ethos. Old Blood's original Sunlight reverb centered its tonal palette around creating infinitely-sustaining modulated reverb trails through a process dubbed "dynamic hold." Today's Sunlight Stereo deviates from this formula slightly, though the central tenet of infinitely-sustaining, dynamic, modulated reverbs is still upheld.
Old Blood Noise Endeavors Sunlight Stereo Reverb Effect
As the Sunlight is translated into our (now) familiar Old Blood Stereo casing, we're met with a number of controls to twist and effect avenues to follow. The Sunlight Stereo does quite a bit to translate the Sunlight dynamic reverb experience into the stereo realm, as we've seen with the Dark Star Stereo and Black Fountain Stereo previously, but also now build upon Old Blood's Stereo blueprint.
Reverb ReformatThe Sunlight Stereo centers an infinitely-sustaining modulated reverb effect experience with a couple of offshoot effect routes to explore. Onboard, the Sunlight Stereo features a more "all-in" approach to reverb mixing that differs from the original Sunlight's three-way reverb effect mode switch. The Sunlight Stereo introduces onboard delay, vibrato, filter, and volume effects that can be mixed in to taste to create new effect concoctions all at once, all in real time.
Where the Sunlight Stereo sets off on its own is the break from the original Sunlight's three-way mode control toggle. In the original Sunlight, onboard Tape, Comb, and Pass modes swapped the Sunlight into different effect forms – tape pitch modulation, comb filtered delay, and pass filtering, respectively, to be precise. The Sunlight Stereo more or less centralizes these primary effect experiences (and more) into the pedal's powerful onboard LFO and hitches them to three front panel buttons.
Moving from top to bottom, Sunlight Stereo's three push button controls connect the pedal's LFO to control three parameters – delay time, tonal frequency, and wet effect signal. Where these three controls land you is with quick routes into the Sunlight Stereo's delay effect, its filter effect, and its volume effect.
Infinity UnwoundAs a quick aside, before we go into the Sunlight Stereo's new effect outlook and functions, we'd just like to revisit what carries over from the original Sunlight. As mentioned, the Sunlight Stereo bases its effect around near-infinitely sustaining reverbs. This experience is principally based around the pedal's Dry, Wet, and Decay controls. The Sunlight Stereo quickly leans into reverbs that are really, really long – this means the effect experience is less about how long you want your reverbs and more what you want to do with them as they sustain. Shaping your reverb palette with Dry and Wet controls allows you to better wrangle the effect's presence in your signal as you move from a more modest effect to one that eagerly overwhelms.
Old Blood Noise Endeavors Sunlight Stereo Modulation Effects
Old Blood's Sunlight Stereo kicks off its experience with its powerful onboard LFO. This particular LFO features controls for speed, intensity, and shape as it is then hitched to different parameters that are enabled on an on/off basis. The Sunlight's push-button controls latch the LFO to affect the reverb's delay effect, filter effect, and volume effect. These can be engaged all at once, one at a time, or mixed and matched for wildly different effect conclusions. Let's talk about what we mean, here.
Soak Up the Sun
Old Blood Noise Endeavors Sunlight Stereo Reverb Tones
As we work through our infinitely-sustaining reverbs, we get options for wildly different effect tones. These push-button LFO options are incredibly influential on our reverbs as a whole as they shape the Sunlight Stereo into something that only barely resembles a reverb*.
In the absolute best way, of course
- Delay – Switching on the Sunlight Stereo's top push-button, we get LFO control over the pedal's simultaneous delay effect. Working with the pedal's Feedback control, the delay effect can be shaped through the LFO, resulting in wild pitch bending with distinctly tape delay reminiscent artifacts. The Sunlight Stereo's tape delay-like qualities (perhaps in allusion to the original Sunlight's Tape mode) mean the effect carries prominent analog-style characteristics that, particularly, create those kinds of slip-and-slide, wow-and-flutter tape delay pitch bends. This unique tonal choice creates an option where tape delay tones couple with the Sunlight Stereo's primary reverb palette for effects that quickly get noisy and discordant in the most delectable ways.
- Filter – Moving on from there, the Sunlight Stereo's middle push-button engages the LFO's control over the pedal's filter effect. The Sunlight Stereo's filter can be swapped between low pass, high pass, band pass, and band reject filtering to expand this universe even further. Introducing filtering to the reverb allows for powerful shaping over the reverb and delay's tonal makeup, where either effect can be smoothed, hardened, spiked, hushed, or any combination of the four. In essence, filters can be used to further push your other effects into weirder, more specific realms.
- Volume – Finally, we land at the Sunlight Stereo's bottom push-button that connects the LFO to the effect volume. This volume-shaping LFO pushes the Sunlight Stereo into new, tremolo territories. The Sunlight Stereo's tremolo capabilities are probably the most straightforward tones to digest as they're the most apparent and noticeable. As the LFO controls the volume of the effect, the effect cuts in and out, as you'd expect from a tremolo. Part of what makes LFO volume control so compelling is that you get something out of the Sunlight Stereo that you might never expect out of a reverb: Rhythm. With the LFO chopping up your reverb signal, you open the effect to more rhythmic possibilities that can run the gamut from a more traditional tremolo to something much more ambitious. In short, this is probably the best time to get a taste of the six different LFO waveform shapes as you try more regimented sine and square wave tremolos to wilder randomized intervals.
Through the Sunlight Stereo's three LFO effects, we're treated to an incredibly robust selection of sounds that range from more modest and traditional to, honestly, some of the weirdest stuff you've ever heard out of an effect pedal.
We don't think we're editorializing all that much when we allude to the Sunlight Stereo's capacity to get into your more expected ambient-leaning reverbs, your swirling, twisty, delay-coated reverbs, your bright and shimmery modulated reverbs and the like – and mention in the same breath its capacity to create organ-like, pitch-modulated reverbs, pseudo-overdriven, feedback-laden reverbs, and rhythmic, tremolo and delay-regimented reverbs where the Sunlight Stereo essentially becomes an instrument all its own with surprisingly little input. Where you might have thought the Sunlight Stereo would just be a bigger, stereo-enabled version of Old Blood's charming, infinite pad reverb pedal – think again.
Walkin' on Sunshine
Old Blood Noise Endeavors Sunlight Stereo Reverb Further Functions
As we start wrapping this up, let's go over some of the smaller features that elevate the Sunlight Stereo that extra bit. Onboard, we have a number of considerations for connectivity and playability.
- Stereo – Like its other Old Blood stereo siblings, the Sunlight Stereo is equipped with stereo input and output connections. Through this input/output duo, the Sunlight Stereo can route to any number of stereo-enabled setups or just go with your usual pedalboard mono-to-mono flow. All good with us, all good with Old Blood.
- MIDI and Expression – The Sunlight Stereo's crack digital design lends it to MIDI and expression control quite well. 1/8" MIDI and 1/4" expression connections enable Sunlight Stereo players to enjoy unprecedented control over the pedal's many parameters along with access to its under-the-hood preset library. This Old Blood Noise Endeavors creation simply couldn't go without that kind of remote control, come on now.
- Switching – For those who really get into the nitty gritty with their pedals, Old Blood offers selectable buffered trails and true bypass switching with the Sunlight Stereo along with its soft-touch footswitches. However you like your pedals playing, Old Blood meets you there.
Old Blood Noise Endeavors Sunlight Stereo Reverb Final Thoughts
Something of a sibling to the Dark Star Stereo, the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Sunlight Stereo is an effect that looks on the brighter side – and what's on the brighter side? Well, a lot, actually.
The Sunlight Stereo truly blows the doors off what you might expect out of its premise. Where you might have thought you had this pedal solved from the jump based on your existing knowledge of Old Blood's Dark Star Stereo, Black Fountain Stereo, and Bathing – sorry. The Sunlight Stereo is really something new for not only infinite and modulated reverbs, but something new for the Old Blood crop of Stereo pedals altogether. With the Sunlight Stereo, Old Blood Noise Endeavors shows that they are constantly innovating, even on their own designs. The Sunlight Stereo drops in and quickly leaps to the front of the pack as one of Old Blood's most interesting reverbs and modulators. Though we feel like we say this whenever Old Blood Noise Endeavors introduces a new effect, but we do mean it this time and every time – don't miss it.
