EarthQuaker Devices Towers vs Old Blood Noise Endeavors BL-37
The EarthQuaker Devices Towers and the Old Blood Noise Endeavors BL-37 are both pedals sharing transparent. The EarthQuaker Devices Towers leans ambient. The Old Blood Noise Endeavors BL-37 leans lush and modulated. Current prices: $299 vs $179.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.49% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Shoegaze
- Ambient
- Experimental
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- transparent
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$299via Reverb
$179via Reverb
The EarthQuaker Devices Towers is a stereo reverb built around resonant, reverberant filters, designed to create lush, harmonically tuned ambient washes that go beyond conventional room and hall reverbs. By running the reverb through tunable filters, it adds pitched, resonant character and dimension to the decay, producing everything from shimmering, musical ambience to dense, otherworldly soundscapes in stereo. It suits ambient, post rock, shoegaze and experimental players who want a distinctive, filter voiced reverb with rich, resonant textures and wide stereo imaging rather than a plain, natural space, offering a creative take on atmospheric reverb in a modern EQD pedal.
The Old Blood Noise Endeavors BL-37 Reverb is a variable-clock reverb in the brand's BL series, adding modulation at two points in the reverb trail to create a wandering, lush, ever-shifting ambience with a simplified control set. Its signature feature is the Clock slider, which moves the sound from a quick, bright, tile-bathroom echo to a dark, lo-fi, time-stretched reverb, giving immediate, tactile control over fidelity and character. The dual modulation keeps the tails moving and organic rather than static, making it well suited to ambient, shoegaze, and experimental playing where evolving texture matters more than a clean room sound. It rewards keeping a thumb on the slider to morph the reverb in real time, offering a distinctive, characterful take on modulated reverb.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Post-Rock
- ambient
- lush
- modulated
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Occasions this gear suits — judged per model, or derived from its wattage, connectivity and category.- Live
- Studio
- Live
- Studio
- Worship