So amongst the three you would rank them
1-Blooper
2-Habit
3-Mood
??
I don't know that I'd "rank them" in terms of appeal or usefulness or, well, anything really... they are all very different and yet cut from similar cloth. It kinda depends what I want to do with them. And more often than not, what I want to do with them depends on what other pedals are in the signal path (which more often than not includes several non-CBA pedals)
9 times out of 10 I'm using Blooper as a glorified tc Ditto: It's a straightforward record/playback looper. Easier to use than Ditto due to the two footswitches. The thing which I both love and hate about the Blooper's modifiers is that, with the exception of the Filters, they all interrupt or destroy the fabric you've captured, overtly and instantly. So it's really hard to do subtle changes to a looped texture.
Habit gets used mostly when I want to have a conversation with myself. Years ago I spent a lot of time in recording studios doing experimental tracks where I'd overdub multiple improvisations on top of one another, so that it sounded like a band full of players who sort of all knew where the tune was going and could almost telepathically follow the contours of a not-preconceived melody. Habit gives me the opportunity to bring that kind of sound into live performance; the two extra delay voices are all regurgitating material I've already played, they're just creatively reinterpreting it [sic]. It keeps the cacophony motifically relevent.
MOOD I mostly use for the scattered diffuse asymmetric not-quite-reverb (and occasionally for the reverse delays) as well as the always-listening looper.
So, different tools for different jobs. I don't really have a favorite. If I could only have one...hmm,
maybe MOOD? Not sure.
Oh yeah, Cosmos fits into the whole paradigm quite well. It excels at exactly the thing that Blooper
doesn't: It can create a texture that will change/evolve over time
without calling attention to itself. So I tend to load stuff into Cosmos that I want to be a background voice, as opposed to Blooper's loops which, regardless of how low in the mix they are I know that as soon as I press this button or twiddle that knob it's gonna step into a foreground role and get noticed.
What band are you playing in that requires a more traditional approach?
LOL. I've done a couple sessions with local grunge bands, kinda Soundgarden/Foo Fighters territory, and I hooked up with an 80s dance-pop cover band (although it's gonna be hard to resist dragging the synth pedals to those gigs). My career has always been a bit two-faced: The weird, wacky, uncommercial iconoclast, contrasted with the meat&potatoes journeyman session whore. Just carrying on that same tradition as I get established in my new city.
But I did also hook up with a regular soirée of local abstract free-improvisiors, so I'm still keeping my hand in that camp.
probably bigger than you want, but the cioks stuff has been really solid for me and i think it was handle your needs (?).
I have a solid power solution (courtesy of Voodoo Labs) that I can always go back to if I want to know everything will work reliably...I was just hoping to downsize in the name of portability. I'm willing to concede the OneSpot experiment was a failure. Or just that it can't include the MOOD.
