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Chase Bliss

#41
Snaxster said:
FV-1
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I have no idea what "FV-1" refers to so I'm not completely groking your point, but that was an intriguing post nonetheless, thank you for expounding so comprehensively. And so passionately!


Snaxster said:
An even more extreme example, in my experience, is Count to 5. Compared to Habit (and maybe at all), in terms of audio quality Ct5 sounds like a toy. A cool and inventive toy, but a toy.
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Interesting. I've owned Ct5 for ~3 years now, used it with several different basses as well as a couple different electric guitars, live and in studio recording sessions, and at no point have I ever thought "man, the audio quality on this thing is sub-par." Of course, most of what I'm comparing it to are run-of-the-mill commercial pedals such as the stompboxes you can buy at any big box Guitar Center/Sam Ash store, so perhaps its audio is sub-par only when compared to other small-batch boutique pedals? My experience with those is limited to a very small handful...but still, Ct5 holds up quite well audio-wise compared to pedals from JHS, Soma, Damnation Audio, and Chase Bliss.

I will say this about MOOD: Dial the Clock just slightly too far past noon (I forget which direction, so either past 10 o'clock or past 2 o'clock) and the noise level and bandwidth turn to complete poo. I know bandwidth is supposed to narrow as you increase (or decrease?) Clock, but it essentially renders the pedal unusable at those extremes. Not sure if that's intentional, or just a bug that my particular unit exhibits?...also not sure if that has anything to do with this "FV-1" thing?

The more I think/talk/read about it, the more likely I'm just gonna bite the bullet and get a Habit anyway. :)
 
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#44
cosmicevan said:
I will agree the fidelity in mood does not compare to blooper. All that said...this thread is making it hard to hold off on habit.
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Now that you mention it, thinking of it ^^^that way really helps me justify adding a Habit! It's like: Do I want pristine crisp hi-fidelity loopy craziness? Step on Blooper (or Habit). Do I want blurry diffuse lo-fidelity loopy craziness? Step on MOOD! It makes choosing easier. Thanks!

...enabler! :)
 
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Bob_Ross said:
Now that you mention it, thinking of it ^^^that way really helps me justify adding a Habit! It's like: Do I want pristine crisp hi-fidelity loopy craziness? Step on Blooper (or Habit). Do I want blurry diffuse lo-fidelity loopy craziness? Step on MOOD! It makes choosing easier. Thanks!

...enabler! :)
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Stop this nonsense of justifying things. If you can afford it you can afford it...if you can't...well then save up!!!!
 
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#48
Snaxster said:
Although I have yet to play MOOD, I assume it is limited by its FV-1 architecture in the same way as all other FV-1 based circuits. It may sound sweet, but I will bet money that its audio fundamentals cannot match that of blooper and Habit.
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Yesterday I finally bought a MOOD. At first blush, I found it to be just as I expected: a lovely, high aesthetics, 'low fidelity à la Spin FV-1' audio processor. The fidelity thing will matter more to bassists than to guitarists, I think.

Anyway I'm glad I have MOOD now. Here was my first go with it, inspecting just the stretch mode with reverb, replete with lively chatter in the music store. The chain is bass guitar > MOOD > Traynor SB-112 (flat EQ, tweeter disabled) > cellphone recording > laptop mastering:

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WG Plum said:
Yep, saw that yesterday. Doesn't bother me, I've bought every CB pedal direct from them.
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yeah, aside from coupons/discounts from a dealer, direct was always no tax/free shipping. best way to go anyway.

They don't need dealers. A chase bliss pedal isn't the kind of pedal you can go to a store and get familiar with. It reminds me of going to a stomp box event and going to the meris booth and being excited to hear what the enzo could do. I plugged in and said I'll play you show me what it can do...and the guy rolled his eyes at me. It isn't that kind of pedal. Chase Bliss stuff, you buy it...you experiment...you either keep it or sell it for around what you paid.
 
#53
Snaxster said:
How about Red Panda Particle 2? Clear to me is that Red Panda saw how limited they were by the Spin FV-1 (venerable though it is). They saw that no degree of creative algo design could yield better quality audio from FV-1; that it is what it is. I just sold my Tensor because I could no longer live with its audio limitations for my use case. So I'm waiting for a Tensor 2.
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For the record:

I stand corrected. I assumed that Tensor was based on the Spin FV-1; but actually it is based on the ARM Cortex-M7.

That said, I still would like what I think of as a more bass-friendly version of Tensor: one whose pitched transposed audio sounds much more natural and credibly like the original sound.
 
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did end up buying their automatone CXM1978 and it's awesome:
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