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Notes: The concept for Diamond Pedals' Boost/EQ began in the early 2000s, with a request for a 'compression-less' version of the famed Diamond Compressor - combining a clean boost circuit with the Compressor's Tilt EQ.

Nearly 20 years after the resulting original pedal's launch, we've re-imagined this idea on the same platform as the Comp/EQ. Introducing the next-generation Diamond Boost/EQ. This versatile, low-noise pedal delivers a punchy, dynamic sound that's ideal for any set-up

Taking the lively, high-fidelity gain stages of the Comp/EQ, the Boost/EQ offers plenty of punch while maintaining clarity and transparency. While the Tilt and Mid controls give you complete freedom to sculpt your tone. Need more sparkle? Dial it in with the Tilt knob. Looking for a midrange boost to cut through your solos? The Mid control has you covered. Want to make your Marshall tone a bit more Fenderesque? It's all possible with Diamond's Boost/EQ.

In addition, the Boost/EQ features a second mode that provides a low-gain overdrive - transparent, yet full of character. This makes the Boost/EQ the ultimate Swiss Army knife for your pedalboard, combining clean boost, tone shaping and overdrive, into one powerful and versatile pedal.

The Boost/EO offers 2 distinct modes of operation. The first is a clean boost mode designed to increase the output of your signal enabling you to beef-up low-output pickups, drive tube amps and dirt pedals for increased sustain and saturation or simply have your solos jump out in the mix.

Set to the OD mode, the gain structure of the pedal is modified and soft clipping diodes are added to the circuit. This provides smooth, transparent, musical distortion that ranges from just a touch of hair and harmonic overtones, to a nice low to mid gain overdrive. Depending on where your Boost/EO is placed in your signal chain, it will either deliver an increase in volume or distortion/saturation. Place it at the end of your pedal chain or in an amp's series FX loop for a volume boost. Put it in front of your drives and fuzzes for more gain and distortion.

Notes: The One to Four Splitter allows the user to take one input and send it through four buffered outputs for unlimited creative potential. Use it to run out to four amps to play in quadraphonic sound and blow people's minds. Send a clean signal to your DAW and another through your normal signal chain to have a clean back up while recording. Run 2 parallel stereo signal paths! Use the One to Four splitter together with the Four to One Mixer and create wild parallel signal chains! Use the Buffer/Splitter and run 2 x One to Four Splitters to have 8 parallel paths!

This device features a unity gain buffer on each output for maximum punch and clarity. These buffered outputs have a flat frequency response with a high 1 Mohm input impedance and a low 100 ohm output impedance. This means that your signal won't lose any quality and will sound just like you intended. Even long cable runs will be no match for the One to Four Splitter.

Dimensions

4.75 x 2.5 x 1.5 in. (120 × 63 × 38 mm)

Current Draw

15 mA

Input Impedance

1 MO

Output Impedance

100 O

Power

This device takes a standard 9 volt DC power supply with a 2.1mm negative center barrel. EQD always recommend pedal-specific, transformer-isolated wall-wart power supplies or multiple isolated-output supplies. Pedals will make extra noise if there is ripple or unclean power. Switching-type power supplies, daisy chains and non-pedal specific power supplies do not filter dirty power as well and let through unwanted noise. DO NOT RUN AT HIGHER VOLTAGES!

Notes: Since its release in 2019, OBNE's Signal Blender has become an indispensable tool for musicians looking to
create parallel signal chains, or otherwise split or combine multiple signals. Now, in collaboration with 29 Pedals, the new Signal Blender Stereo boasts many worthwhile and useful upgrades from the original version.

When 29 Pedals approached OBNE about improving the signal headroom and phase response of the original version for use in their own studio, a collaboration was born. Not content with only signal improvements, the team approached the whole new design in stereo, added trails switching and also added MIDI switching for integration into more complex rigs.


Signal Blender Stereo is a comprehensive mono or stereo parallel effects chain creator. From the input, your signal forks out into multiple paths, allowing parallel blending of two effects loops (A and B) and the original input (Clean) at the output. Experience the joys of parallel routing, or expand to other use cases, like splitting a signal to three separate outputs, or combining three unique signals into one output.

The simple, yet fully featured control set allows for grab-and-go utilitarianism.

The A and B switches engage their relevant effects loop. Tap it to latch the on/off state, or hold it for momentary action. Signal is sent at full strength through the Send jack and the volume knob determines the amount of signal coming back into Signal Blender Stereo via the Return jack. The phase invert toggle allows phase inversion on the return when the toggle is in the up position, accounting for pedals that flip the phase. The trails toggle in the up position prevents the Return from switching off, allowing time-based effects to trail after the footswitch is switched off.

In the down position, the send and return are switched on and off together.

The Clean footswitch determines whether the original clean input signal is sent to the main output and the Clean volume knob determines the volume of that signal when engaged.

By default, Signal Blender is designed to be stereo through the use of TRS cables, or mono through the use of TS cables, without the need to change any settings at all on the device. However, if mono input to stereo output is desired, just use the internal dipswitch to assign mono-in-stereo-out ("MISO"), then use a TS cable at the input and TRS cables everywhere else.