Old Blood Noise Endeavors Setback Reverse Delay Pedal - Orange

For musicians aiming to push the boundaries of texture and timing, the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Setback reverse delay pedal offers precise control over reversed audio, pitch-shifted delays, and signal fidelity. Built around a dedicated reverse engine, it uses Clock, Div, and Speed controls to move from clean, tightly timed repeats to heavily degraded textures, with delay times reaching roughly 24 seconds at the lowest clock setting. Stereo input and output, onboard presets, MIDI control, and expression assignment make this delay pedal easy to integrate into modern pedalboards and studio rigs while maintaining direct, hands-on control.

Reverse Delay With Pitch and Fidelity Control

Old Blood Noise Endeavors designed the Setback delay around the idea that reverse can be more than a novelty effect. The Clock control adjusts sample rate from 48kHz–500Hz, changing both fidelity and available delay time, while Speed shifts playback across seven quantized intervals from octave down to octave up. Div handles rhythmic subdivisions independently, allowing the pedal to stay synchronized while you reshape the texture, pitch, and decay character of the reverse signal.

Preset, MIDI, and Expression Integration

Three onboard preset slots plus live mode give players quick access to stored sounds, while MIDI expands control with parameter access, preset recall, MIDI clock sync, and channel assignment. Expression can be mapped to any combination of the main controls, making it possible to sweep between defined heel and toe settings per preset. The Setback delay also supports mono, stereo, or mono-in-stereo-out routing and offers either trails or true bypass operation for flexible signal integration.

Built for Hands-On Performance

Soft-touch switching keeps operation quiet, while the auxiliary footswitch can be assigned for tap tempo, runaway feedback, or preset switching depending on the player’s needs. That flexibility makes Setback especially useful in performance, where one patch may call for tightly timed reverse repeats and another may need sustained, unstable feedback or pitch-shifted swells. It all equates to the Old Blood Noise Endeavors Setback giving players a programmable reverse engine designed for expressive, performance-ready control.