It's a shame! I want the white knobs on my Stutterbox!!! I hate the poor-black-gummy knobs on mine!!!
I try to do a customer review of this pedal.
I have only the stutterbox, I wasn't a tremolo-guy, I had several cheap tremolo pedals that I sold after few days of messing.
I have an "odi et amo" relationship with this pedal, everytime I'm considering to sold it, I change idea the next day.
Everything I don't like of this pedal, it's not fault of this pedal, but it's mine, because I'm not a tremolo guy, but I'm slowly changing ideas about this effect.
This pedal has huge pros: the active tone and gain worth the price, I use it sometimes with depth at zero and tone at max, this red box make everything sounds better, when It is bypassed everything sounds like shit. The wave shapes are cool, but with fast settings and medium\high depth, they are all really similar (like every tremolo pedal). Personally I love the sine and the square too, but I can understand actually the pulse\lumpy, but they are really warm and lush sounding.
Tap tempo is a nice feature, but without a lfo reset is useless in a band contest if you need heavy-rythmical tremolo in the middle of a song, for this pourpose I think is better an expression pedal. But who's care, it's a problem of the drummer.
The patterns are a great and an inspiring feature, it's cool how they react with the depth knob and wave shape, I think they work better after a long sustained instrument: guitar\bass with reverb, synths, drones, noise, oscillations, infinite, HOG ecc...
The verdict: this box can do standard tremolo really well, it sounds really natural and warm, but it can bacame more aggressive\percussive with the depth and the tone knob, without lfo is an Excellent clean\treble booster, the preamp is better that the DMM one, the patterns are really cool for make noise paired with weird pedals and instruments, tap tempo is a nice feature, maybe the tap switch is too sensitive sometimes, but I have no problem to control the speed knob manually.