by zoooombiex » Fri Jul 12, 2019 1:33 pm
Others have weighed in, but FWIW
1) Did anyone compare it to the Count to Five? Anyone has both? which do you prefer and why? I think they can sound a lot alike.
>> Agree that those don't really overlap much. The MOOD probably shares more with the Particle 2 and Tensor, but it's really its own thing.
2) Can Mood do a 16 seconds delay like the EHX 16 seconds delay pedal? When doing do that how is the quality of the delay? Isn't it too grainy or noisy?
>> Nope. I've been on a quest to find a small-format 16SDD for a long time and have yet to find anything that can do everything it does. The MOOD doesn't do overdubing (much less overdubbing in opposite directions and different speeds like the 16SDD). The time stretching on the MOOD is way more flexible though. Really nice design on that piece. IMO, the MOOD can do up to about 3ish seconds of looping and sound pretty good. After that the quality drops pretty quickly. And with the clock set to anything below about 12k, it starts to introduce some high end noise even when nothing is playing back. The really lo-fi stuff certainly has its uses, but I don't think the MOOD is meant for long loops like the 16SDD.
3) Can you also control the feedback of the loop side? so that the loops fade out slowly while you are adding new stuff, like you can with a delay I mean.[/quote]
>> No. The delay side can do some of that, but the looping side is static - it's either recording or playing back, and just one layer at a time. You could potentially ramp a fadeout, and you could potentially feed the loop side into the delay and then let it continue on the delay side while you record a new loop. But again, if you're wanting something like the 16SDD I don't think that's what this is meant to do. (I'm holding out hope for the Blooper!)
One other note - when you switch modes on the MOOD, you lose whatever is in the buffer. (E.g., if a loop is playing and you are in ENV mode and you switch to STRETCH, it clears the loop and you have to re-record the loop.) That's a hardware limitation of the FV1 unfortunately. Not a dealbreaker, but I didn't realize it from the demos.
On re-reading that all sounds kind of negative. It's a seriously interesting pedal and I don't plan to ditch it any time soon. But I'm still figuring out if/where it fits in my current setup.