![]() Of course just using the top 3 knobs as a basic delay, and then gradually adding Modifiers and flipping output options is fairly straight forward - while the Spread and Scan controls take a long time to acclimatise to - not the theory necessarily - but successful application of those, and landing on a usable pattern! These few weeks later I’m kind of back in the nice-to-have camp again as the downside of slick and efficient demos - is that you’re rarely party to all the experiments that went wrong - and failed to fully yield musical output - and that is largely the challenge with the Habit - not that there aren’t great tones and patterns possible - but that eking them out is often tricky and overly time-consuming. ![]() ![]() Having then seen the excellent Andy Martin Demo and the output he was able to simply and effectively extract from the pedal I decided this would very much be a must have for me - and likely the most potent and practical of the trio as a regular floor-based stompbox. Upon watching the very first videos I was unsure of the pedal’s practical stompbox potential and kind of landed in the nice-to-have camp - where I thought the pedal might require a little too much hands-on input and manipulation to be deployed practically on the floor. So what of the Habit? Is that more a tabletop pedal or stompbox in nature - and how easily and practically can it be deployed in a floor-based environment? While I’ve found that I can use the MOOD to a degree as a bona fide stompbox - while some of its clever applications of course really require a tabletop environment too! I feel that the Blooper cannot really exist as a floor-based stompbox - such is its need for constant hands-on manipulation. In fact everyone I’ve seen use these fully properly does so within a tabletop setup typically. For those that come from a floor-based stompbox environment there is a question of compatibility, learning curve and indeed a whole process of adoption. While I was waiting for the Blooper to materialise which it did somewhat oddly via Kickstarter at the time - the MOOD kind of caught me completely by surprise - and I was unsure of functional and features overlap and overall usability - which meant that I acquired the MOOD somewhat later than intended.īoth those pedals are of a newish tabletop breed - really better suited to keyboard and modular synth type player who can tweak all those knobs in tandem and are already well used to doing such. I was onboard with the Blooper Bottomless Looper pretty much from the start - but then somewhat confused by the sudden unannounced arrival of the MOOD Ambience Generator - which leap-frogged the Blooper for an early release. And while we’ve often seen leading pedal luminaries collaborate before - this is the first official team-up - in fact a genuine Supergroup of Pedal Gurus! What wonders await! It has also recently added two key well-loved and celebrated pedal geniuses as staff members - first Tom Majeski, formerly of Cooper FX, and then Scott Harper of Knobs_Demos fame - both existing close collaborators of Joel Korte. Chase Bliss Recently revamped its Logo and Branding and launched its 20th Production Pedal (discounting iterations and variations) - Habit : The Echo Collector.
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