Old Blood Noise Endeavors Excess vs Spaceman Polaris
The Old Blood Noise Endeavors Excess and the Spaceman Polaris are both pedals. The Old Blood Noise Endeavors Excess leans modulated and ambient. The Spaceman Polaris leans dynamic.
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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.34% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Experimental
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The Old Blood Noise Endeavors Excess is a unique multi-mode distortion pedal from OBNE combining distortion with filter, gating, and modulation options in hand-built boutique quality. The Excess is one of OBNE's most distinctive creations, offering distortion with voice modulation and experimental tonal capabilities beyond conventional gain pedals.
The Spaceman Polaris is a dynamic, medium-gain overdrive built around a 2-pole resonant filter, offering Level, Drive, Initial, and Filter knobs alongside two mode switches and an expression pedal input for real-time, hands-free filter sweeps. The resonant filter design pushes the overdrive beyond a standard drive pedal's territory into synth-like, sweeping filtered textures, drawing 16-17mA and accepting a wide 9-24VDC input range. Part of Spaceman's Cadet Series, it's built for players wanting overdrive with genuinely unconventional, filter-driven tonal movement.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Ambient
- modulated
- ambient
- dynamic