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Infanem Second Voice?

Did a search, didn't find anything, so figured I'd ask if any fellow TBers have had any experience with this pedal or its bigger brother the Harmony Synth. Fuzzhugger sells them (out of stock right now, more coming soon supposedly)
Anyway, the few clips I've heard have been encouraging, but again was wondering if anyone has had a chance to try one personally.
 
Going to drive home real quick for my lunch break and put it on my board. Might have about 15 minutes to play with it before having to go back to the grind, but hopefully it'll at least give me enough time to get a general idea as to how well it tracks with some of the harmony settings. I'm most interested in the 5th up and 5th up an octave.
 
First impressions:

Was a little late coming back from lunch if that says anything, but I still only had about 15 minutes in which to fiddle with it.

I only played three intervals-the 5th up, 2 octaves up & the octave 5th up. Tracking on the intial attack was really, really good, even on an open low D with my 12 String. With that said, it glitches/sputters pretty quick on sustained notes.

The volume, range & blend controls seem pretty interactive, and some of the sputtering seemed to be able to be tamed/smoothed a bit by adjusting the range control & blend.

The range control seems to control what "bandwidth" the pedal tracks best with, as well as the overall sound of the fuzz. Fully CW is stranded dolphins being stung by wasps stuff, CCW gets a little dark. In my limited time with it, somewhere between 1-2 o'clock seemed like a good setting.

There is a switch labeled instrument/fuzz, but neither setting is entirely clean, though one smooths out the fuzz a little bit.

The pedal itself appears well built and looks interesting with the blue hammertone finish and I like the look of the labeling/control layout. The LED is kind of a pee yellow...

Anyway, I think this is going to be a keeper-just need more time with it-I can see it being used to get power chord/octave up like sounds on heavier songs (my intention) or maybe even MXR Blue Box tones on more extreme settings. Probably not for anyone looking for clean intervals like with say a digital whammy or POG, but if you want dirt with the harmonies could be a real winner. :)
 
Updated opinion after having it a few days:

Still like it a lot, but I think the pedal could benefit greatly with a "true" clean blend. It doesn't lose low end, but the harmony square wave is rather overpowering to my ears, even with the blend fully CCW. According to the builder it is never 100% dry unless off obviously.

I resolved this by moving it into my Badger Schism Looper and then blending clean to taste, which makes it sound much better IMO and much more of the doubling effect I was looking for.

Also, seems to be a power hog and didn't like my 1Spot. Does better on an isolated power supply.
 
GET FUZZED.

A "song" created entirely from the Second Voice, aside from some help from the MF-101 (for a very brief period in the beginning/ some frequency sweeps),an LFO from our friend the MP-201, some delay from the Nova, and a RC20XL for the loop.