Old Blood Noise Endeavors Excess V2 Distorting Modulator Demo

Do you have a favourite distortion pedal at the moment? I've been meaning to get one but I'm spoilt for choice and indecision is killing me.

The V1 was capable of this the whole time? 😂 Man I didn't regret selling mine until now.

This is what I want when I search a pedal review! Good playing, everything super well explained and a clear idea of what I am listening to. Great review and demo ❤️

Came across your KMA Cirrus demo and ended up buying it. Now I'm definitely getting this one too. Amazing demo. I also love your music, it's just insane...

Hey, that's the Pedal Crush book in the background! I have the book, and when I started reading it about a year ago, I didn't know about The Pedal Zone. But I was looking through the book yesterday and there was this guy! Well deserved to feature in the book too, your demos really show what the pedals can do, I haven't seen deep dives like this that were also musically inspiring more often than not on any other channel.

Where can I buy your albums, man?

Good review, where it goes in the signal chain and it can go in te fx loop or k verge front?

I started building my first pedalboard in early 2020. I thought I was finished, but I decided that my huge pedalboard will be just a studio board, because it's unreasonable to carry that heavy sh*t around. I've been watching some The Pedal Zone videos lately and I think that there's a real risk that I will have to have about 3-4 Old Blood Noise Endeavours pedals on my board (Dark Star, Excess, Black Fountain, and Haunt), and also very likely the Earthquaker Devices Afterneath. Those will eliminate some distortions and ambience and mod pedals, and I'll be set.

I was pretty much sold when you were playing distorted delay, but when you switched to clean 5ths, I was like, Bank account, you got knocked the fuck out! Thanks, man!

Another great demo. Well done

I don't usually trust dirt + modulation combo pedals, but this one sounds good! I'd definitely put this on a mini-board if I needed to save some space. Put a reverb on there and you're good to go.

I've watched this video pretty much once a week since you posted it cause I love that intro/outro jam so much. You never play anything boring, very very good!

What tuning were you using for this demo? Sounds great

Between this and the Sunlight for my next one. Hmmm….

Also, for an amazing ToneBender, the RambleFX Twin Bender Mk. ii is everything. Based on the OG Sola Sound Tone Benders. Bias and Impedance knobs and a gate for completely silent > immediate wall of distortion. Germanium transistors and all the harmonic OD notes you’ll need.

Ordered one yesterday can’t wait for it come. I often visit the 5ths part of this video in anticipation of mine coming. Can’t wait to try it out

Jesus the riffs and the gain off that pedal are giving me hardcore locktender vibes and I’m in love

If you had a channel where you didn’t talk using exclusively buzzwords only in every sentence. Or didn’t talk at all I’d be into it

What is the drive based on/What does it sound like to you? Is it similar to a rat?

Great demo and even better playing. What tuning are you using here?

I feel like OBNE is the best bang for buck pedal company by FAR. That said, I love experimental sounds so…

I love that guitar! I've been wanting a Jennings Navigator for a while now. Also great demo of a great sounding pedal!

Great video

Once again, you made me realize the potential of a pedal that I thought was not for me!! You are getting good at it ah ah!

Fuuuuhhhh the low end sounded so sick

love the beard

not too into this pedal. OBN has always been hit or miss for me. Just say'in

Great demo, this pedal is very cool ! I own an Alpha Haunt 21 and the Visitor from OBNE and I love them.
(I totally dig your Telecaster, amazing style)

Simply…. Wow. An amazing demo as ever, crazy creative and tasteful and a great showcase for an incredibly versatile pedal. I love what obne do as, for me, it inspires writing and pushing In different directions and this pedal is no different. Might be on my ‘must have’ list!

Killer demo Stefan, and a killer pedal for sure . Gotta get me one of these. Been watching your demos for quite a while and have always been curious what kind of tuning do you often use?You play some really beautiful chord shapes.

Finally got a chance to sit down and watch this..... WOW!! What a superb showcase of a truly magnificent pedal.. it's so well thought out and sounds immense... I love how your playing can go from delicate to thumping to perfectly encapsulate what the pedal can do. Well done good sir and well done OBNE!

Hello Stefan, perhaps you can also place your chords or tabs on your demos. That will be great!

Exceptional! I really want the pedal, but I envy your skills even more. Thankyou for sharing.

Great demo!🔝👌🏻

Cagata pazzesca

Great as always!

Great review and versatile pedal. How important is it to use use an effect loop when you add in delay/reverb for your post-rock and ambient sounds? Looks like in some of your videos you are just running straight ino the front of a Fender Deluxe or Princeton.

Loved this video so much. I'm truly surprised at how crunchy, saturated, and ripping this distortion is. (And I'm not even a big drive fanatic tbh). The Excess v2 looks like having half a pedal board's worth of sonic capacity in a compact little box. I barely knew what the v1 was before this came out, but now I'm sold. And my favorite thing about your demos: they make me want to pick up my guitar! I'm going from here to right in front of my amps. 🤘

As an owner of the v1, I was kinda hoping you weren't going to say it was "miles better".

Always a pleasure to watch your demos and this one was a really beautiful exploration of the V2. They really out did themselves with this one

Epic Stefan!✨✨✨❤️

You’re too inspiring. Thank you for all the time and effort and money and stress that goes into creating and sharing this with us all. I really appreciate it. It’s a pretty cool time to be obsessive over sounds (and other stuff).

I love OBNE pedals but at some point, to deal with their complexity, presets would be nice.

That was a kick ass demo. Im not here for the pedal, I know what it sounds like already. I'm here to hear what you do with it specifically. Nice use of the self oscillation at the end! 🔥🔥🔥 Also the keys on thing sounded like Undertale, very cool.

Damn. Excess and a Sunlight and you've got a whole pedalboard and universe in two pink boxes of awesome.

Great demo, Stefan! What a versatile shoegazer’s wet dream coming true! I can definitely see this as the centerpiece of a small pedalboard!

Man, what stellar guitar playing as always! On paper, I wasn't sure how to best combine/use these sounds together (with distortion so close to mod) but those are some shoegaze-y/post rock vibes that were irresistible! Super cool demo, for a super cool pedal. Thanks for another rad video, Stefan!

Will say it again, I like how different your demo playing is with all the other platforms! This pedal looks fun as well, might have to consider this in the future

Amazing demo as always man! I totally gotta get me one of these! The tones really remind me of Gran Hechicero music!

Man as awesome as this is it'd be really hard to place in a pedal chain. Sure you can put reverb and delay behind it but what of the other grit boxes that are always on? I don't feel it'd play nice with that.