Old Blood Noise Endeavors BL-52 vs Tone City Summer Orange
The Old Blood Noise Endeavors BL-52 and the Tone City Summer Orange are both pedals sharing modulated, transparent. The Old Blood Noise Endeavors BL-52 leans ambient. Current prices: $159 vs $54.66.
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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.44% — somewhat different
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- modulated
- transparent
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$159via Reverb
$54.66via Reverb
The Old Blood Noise Endeavors BL-52 Phase Repeater is a variable-clock effector in the brand's BL series that lives between phaser and reverb, sounding like a room constantly changing in size and materials. It alternates between clear and diffuse repeats, undulating beneath the player for an evolving, dimensional texture that is neither strictly modulation nor strictly reverb. Its signature Clock slider lets the sound move quickly and with fidelity or slowly and darkly, shaping how the phasing and repeats degrade and stretch. The result is an atmospheric, morphing ambience suited to ambient, shoegaze, and experimental players who want unusual spatial textures rather than conventional effects. Tactile and immediate, it rewards keeping a thumb on the slider to morph the space in real time.
The Tone City Summer Orange is a phaser pedal from the budget-focused Chinese effects brand, following Tone City's broader catalog pattern of colorful, compact stompboxes covering classic effect types at accessible prices. As a phaser, it sweeps a series of notch filters across the frequency spectrum to produce the swirling, watery modulation the format is known for, distinct from a flanger's more metallic, jet-plane sweep. Tone City has built a presence in the budget pedal market by covering nearly every major effect category in a bright, visually distinctive mini or standard-size format, and the Summer Orange continues that approach within the phaser category specifically.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Ambient
- Experimental
- Shoegaze
- Swing
- Funk
- Classic Rock
- Alternative Rock
- ambient