NAMM 2026: OBNE (Old Blood Noise Endeavors) Parting is a new, colorful glitchy delay reverb pedal in collaboration with Emily Hopkins.
NAMM is the show for effects pedals. There’s no other trade show where so many new pedals are presented. The developers from Old Blood Noise Endeavors, who are among my favorite pedal designers, are also there.
For NAMM 2026, OBNE has teamed up with YouTuber and composer Emily Hopkins to develop Parting, a new original stereo effect pedal.
OBNE Parting
Parting is a new, original glitchy delay and reverb pedal. Emily Hopkins, who worked closely with OBNE, emphasizes that the Parting Pedal is not an existing Old Blood pedal with a new faceplate, but a completely new development.
It consists of three sections: modulation, glitch delay/reverb, and dissolve. It starts with the glitch delay/reverb that gives you three hands-on controls for chance, smear, and glitch.
Chance sets the probability that a delay will occur, or, better said, it randomizes the audio signal fed to the delay line. Smear adds diffusion, allowing for reverb-like textures.
A unique control is the glitch parameter, which creates clock subdivisions for octave jumps that can be static or wildly random.
Then, dissolve: the second section is a single knob that degrades your signal with sample-rate reduction or sends it in reverse with increasingly Lo-Fi clocks.
Modulation and Filtering Of The Glitchy Effects
The modulation section is on the left side of the pedal and is accessible via tactile switches. It offers two distinct flavors: tremolo and vibrato, accessible via a switch. Classic controls (rate, depth, and shape) determine the multi-wave LFO’s motion.
The speed of it is tied to the tap tempo or time setting. You can choose between a wide range of shapes: sine, square, reverse saw, saw, random sine, random square, and envelope follower. The latter responds dynamically to your playing.
Again, the tactile switches also give access to the built-in filter and mixer. The filter is a post-delay (post-dissolve) filter with low-pass and high-pass options, tweakable with a single knob.
The mixer has two distinct modes (standard or modified) and sets the overall mix with a single knob. The hardware can host up to three presets.
On the connection side, it has stereo input and output, with an analog dry-through. TRS mini MIDI is also onboard, giving you MIDI control over everything in the pedal, including MIDI clock in and out for external syncing.
Further, it has an expressive pedal input routable to every knob. Not to forget, you can choose between trails or with true bypass switching. The second footswitch (AUX) offers various functions: tap tempo, clock adjustments (half/normal), and preset switching.
First Impression
Before writing this article, I listened to the various demos. Parting sounds very unique and creates beautiful, lo-fi, dense atmospheres. I’m pleased to see that it also works well with synthesizers and other sound generators.
I’d love to part with this pedal and head into a long, never-ending sound evening. Congratulations, Emily, on the pedal release! It sounds very promising.
OBNE Parting is available now for $329.
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