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I've long been itching to try out the WMD Geiger Counter to make crazy off-the-wall ridiculous over-the-top dark scary nonsense.

However, they cost a lot of money for one in the UK and I'm wondering if it will really offer me more than I can already achieve with combinations of the pedals I already have - i.e. Fat Fuzz Factory > MF Drive > Mobius (Destroyer/Filer/Quadrature Machines) > Particle

Any thoughts welcome...

(I do have an expression pedal (and expressionator) if that's were you think the real WM magic is at).

The möbius is super tame compared to the Geiger. I definitely think that your current lineup would benefit from the Geiger. Maybe check out the Civilian version, has fewer knobs and is smaller and cheaper. My issue with the Geiger was that it could make so many different sounds, but had no presets. I could have easily filled up 12 banks of sounds with that puppy.

Geiger Counter is the shit! I've always wanted to try the bass modded one. But whatever. Agree with Jason about it fitting well with what you have.

The one thing that sucks with the Geiger is that it doesn't have a blend knob, I'm usually not that much a fan of it but with bitcrushing and especially sample rate reducing it's supercool and really opens up the sound and possibilities.

^ for sure, i loved the blend on red panda, and currently enjoy the dry / wet on biscuit

geiger counter is badass tho, tons of sounds to be had in that them there

geiger counters are terribly noisy. click click click all the time.

i loved my geiger counter
its hellla grunge

need another for bazz

Well you guys didn't cure my GAS at all! Now all I need is someone to sell me one on the cheap.

Thank you for confirming my suspicion hat the Mobius bit crusher is tame compared to the geiger - I am finding it hard to get something really gnarly with it, even after heavy drive/fuzz. It's good for making more dainty adorable sounds though.

Another factor is that I think it would be cool to add different modulation after the WMD using the Mobius

It will have to be the big jobbie though - I tried the little guy, and while it was a very cool little stomp box, it didn't really have the capacity to get down and dirty sweeping bit rates, wigging out with an expression pedal and finding your own special black vortex to dive into that I'm after.

Try one out first. I think I would recommend the civilian addition. I actually let mine go, not because it wasn't awesome, but because I knob twiddled too much and played too little. It's also really deep, so changing settings would create entirely different kinds of sounds, and without writing a lot down, it wasn't the kind of thing that you could easily just bounce back to a previous setting…but maybe I am too simple minded...

The Geiger Counter is cool, I use my CI version in a loop in order to retain some of the dry signal. The wavetables can radically alter the sound being processed, even without the application of distortion or bit crushing.

I definitely thought it was a "tweaker's dream" type pedal and not a "player's pedal" pedal. I loved some of the sounds on mine, but ultimately there were too many waveforms that sounded similar and I would get distracted trying to find the one out of 255 that sounded like the one from that other time. I'm wishing I had kept it and invested in a blend box or added control. That was the only thing I disliked. There needs to be a "off duty version" that combines that controls of the full version with the simplified wavetable of the civvy issue.

Raunchy fuzz tones to be had for sure. Funeralopolis, all day, every day.