Old Blood Noise Endeavors Flat Light vs Strymon Orbit
The Old Blood Noise Endeavors Flat Light and the Strymon Orbit are both pedals sharing shimmer, low gain, pristine. The Old Blood Noise Endeavors Flat Light leans ambient. The Strymon Orbit leans aggressive and mid-forward. Current prices: $199.62 vs $299.
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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.47% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Experimental
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- shimmer
- low gain
- pristine
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$199.62via Reverb
$299via Reverb
The Old Blood Noise Endeavors Flat Light is a textural flange shifter, not a reverb, built around the Spin FV-1 chip with three distinct modes: Detune for a shimmering, subtly pitch-shifted flange, Resonate for a highly resonant, swooshing multiflange, and Echo for a lush, ambient, reverb-like delay texture. Rate, Depth, Shift, and Mix controls shape the effect, which sounds cleanly digital rather than mimicking the coloration of vintage bucket-brigade flangers, and it responds dynamically to playing intensity. It suits ambient, post-rock, and experimental players wanting a genuinely textural, shimmering flanger that can range from subtle pitch movement to swooshing chaos to reverb-like wash.
The Strymon Orbit is a dBucket flanger that brings classic analog flange tones into the modern era, built by analyzing and reverse-engineering some of the greatest vintage analog flangers. Its front-panel controls range from chorus-like detuning to intense jet-plane sweeps, and it offers true through-zero flanging, achievable only with high-quality digital algorithms, for deep, vocal, zero-point effects. A Feedback toggle provides Positive for jet-engine flange, Negative for watery, shimmery flange, and a combined +/- setting, while an LFO linear mode delivers aggressive grunge-style flanging and a Thru-0 position suits heavy distortion with subtle shimmer. Extensive I/O and deep-editing secondary features allow precise tailoring, and an expression interface adds control. It suits players wanting versatile, high-quality flanging from subtle movement to extreme sweeps across rock, grunge, shoegaze, and experimental styles.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Ambient
- Post-Rock
- Rock
- Grunge
- Shoegaze
- ambient
- aggressive
- mid-forward