The microcosm seems like a beautiful pedal, but I agree with you. I've thought about buying one, but I cant justify the purchase when I can get pretty close with CB mood and blooper together. I feel like the microcosm might even be a little restrictive after so much time with the blooper

Thanks for doing this. I was about to buy this pedal and thanks god I did not.

Nice - Robin Guthrie in a box!

2:35 you just pulled my heartstring

Every riff MUST start with a hammer on apparently

I bought one but have only tried it through a Tweed Deluxe style amp, and it sucks for that, but Tweeds kinda hate everything. Really like the tones you’re getting, I’ll have to revisit it through some more friendly amps.

Nice! I'm getting one.

But, I am just a man still learning how to fall!!

Two videos in one week and it’s not even Christmas yet 🎉 some lovely crunch to this beast

The Lover has some pretty nice sounds and is so versatile. I really battle myself getting one or not and your demo made it harder to resist 😅 I love that slightly pushed sound. It has something quiet unique...

Thanks for the tip! Just picked this pedal up!

Never met a Walrus pedal that wasn’t mid.

In and out only mono?

I've gotta say, that's pretty damn neat!

Lad has done well. As always. Phil is the man.

Cheeky little light show from those pedals. Stick some lasers on and then we’re dancing.

Hey hey welcome back! Let’s see what the startup pedalboard market is like these days! Could this be the one for you or is there someone you know that would benefit from this?

I own a Big Sky - but the closest thing that I've heard to a Lexicon Rack is the Chase Bliss CXM 1978 for that Pristine pure Reverb. Nice demo. oNe LovE from NYC

Let's look at the Loopah! Not to be confused with an Oompah Loompah! :P Great demo, thanks, might snag one of these suckers but not sure if it is much more capable than my MPX-1. Except this has a Loopah ;-)

My main question is where do you buy this at a reasonable price? Nowhere seems to stock it and buying it from Chase Bliss EU is insanely expensive.

There are things I love about Chase Bliss pedals but they have features I feel like I’d never use so I can’t justify spending the money on them.

Trying to update my firmware but my LVX won’t connect to my Mac. Any ideas? It just won’t show up as a drive. I’ve tried multiple cables.

Been looking forward to your review Nick, I think this might be my favourite Bleak District pedal, which is saying a lot. Have had one since day one and am blown away by the range. Always (recently) thought if I had to choose one Overdrive it would be the Special Cranker. Terra does that and a great deal more.

Ah man this is a great demo on it's own! Really showing it off and those riffs around 3-4 min are fire yo! 🤘

I knew this, and came to the same general conclusion but you articulated it so well. Back in the seventies when I got my first tube screamer, I couldn’t afford (and really there weren’t so many to choose from) more, had a great amp (Ampeg VT 40 I think it was), guitar (ES335) and I learned that pedal inside out. I knew exactly how to use it. Took some time. In the nineties, I earned decent pay, and was buying pedals just as you describe. The beginning of my realization came one day when three different pedals arrived on around the same week, and it felt like a JOB I had to do to try them out. I also found out after years that having more than two OD’s just took me out of my playing mindset. I would turn in an OD for a solo or something, and the first few seconds after he thinking “should I have used another OD? Is this the right sound?” AS I’m playing. Took my head right out of playing. I found also that just setting up an OD, I could get most at the perfect place if I just used the volume knob on my guitar. That coveted “edge of breakup”. I could adjust clean, edge, or solid OD just with that, and even more when I used th tone control on the guitar. I used to leave guitar on ten. Also, when you don’t really familiarize yourself and get to know a pedal on complex pedals (like the strymon El Capistan) you can get angst about setting it. Like if a knob gets jostled in transport, and you aren’t sure how to get the sound you want. I once sold a delay (Diamond) that I just never could get to sound right and often got runaway feedback delay, I met a guy who was interested in buying and just watching him explore the pedal (and get such amazing sounds I felt like I ought to keep it instead of sell) by intuitively adjusting, readjusting LISTENING to what was happening, and trying all different settings. I sold it to him, felt I had no right to keep it, when he could get so much out of it and was worth the lessons he gave me. For a while now I have two OD, tuner, wah, vibe, el Capistan, and EQ as my pedalboard with one off board fuzz or treble booster depending on my mood. Much happier.

Versatile doesn't even come close!

Hey I’m back! Here is my first ten minutes of Bleak’s new Terra pedal. It’s a banger. More to come soon

Très bonne vidéo. Bonne qualité, merci!

I have experienced the same with photo gear. And I dont want to do the same with guitar gear. I like the acoustic most, and my main goal is to play the guitar - technique and theory - but I must admit that you can do a lot with pedals. I just dont want a ton of them. A few is enough. I'm a senior citizen finally having time to continue learning my instrument, just for the fun of it.

Kshlerin Valley

Kohler Course

MacGyver Station

Braun Springs

Just ordered Tapescape. Glad to support🙂

Awww mate you’re making my hold on buying pedals even more difficult. Really appreciate you walking through things that the pros take for granted - little old me didn’t know what MISO was when I started with Generation Loss MKII two years ago - let alone that there was more than I’ve type of audio cable 😊😊😊 ooof and the sounds you make with it are incredible 😊

I'd never sell mine. You're always going to get other pedals that have overlap at some point. If anything because I have a Microcosm, I don't have a reason to get a Big Sky. I'm not one of these wishy-washy ppl that will comment that they're keeping it and then come back in an instant to say they just sold it. lol. Guitarist Tom Lippincott has stated he's going to produce a video on how he uses it, and I'm really interested to see what he makes use of with the Microcosm, it's one of the staples for his pedal board. I'd hate to have gotten rid of it before finding out what a talented jazz guitarist can do with it.

Hi Nick, really appreciate your way of exploring pedals. I'd like to have your advice: is it better to put Onward before or after Mood MKII? Thanks again for your valuable videos.

If CB ever does a Thermae mkii with stereo, I’m sure it’ll be expensive because these BBD chips are each like $30 from what I’ve heard, and you’d need 8 of them like Meraki has, but even at $600-700 I think CB would still sell a ton.

Instant click. Instant like. This is perfect. Belongs on Cryo Chamber 👌🏻

That’s a very interesting device Nick. Really enjoyed seeing it in use - very nicely done with your music too!

This is lovely

Absolutely flippin' marvellous nick

My MX keeps powering down on its own? I have no idea why I’ve never had this issue before but it’s quite annoying!

Great piece of kit + pedal combo. Results are spot on soundscapes. What if you tried a violin bow across the metal bowl?

Nick you rule!! And this was beautiful!!! Thanks for digging the boxes so much and taking your time to do this 💛

Hi nick it reminds me this guy kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYismGd8lKyor7M

Dude, this is really cool. I recently just heard about these things. They remind me of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre soundtrack. Also, that piece of music is beautiful. Is it going on an album?

Hey- thanks for making this video. I’ve had the LVX for awhile, but I really haven’t fallen in love with it. I sat down with the LVX yesterday- after stumbling into your video, and made a rad preset, gained better understand of how to operate it, AND wrote a rad song around the patch I built (my band confirmed they dig the song ideas so far). So yeah- thanks man! Appreciate this video a lot.

Sold mine................since then, I've had a Cosmos, MOOD MkII.......then, over a year later, I found myself purchasing another Microcosm.........

What is that big white “bucket brigade delay” in the middle? around 4:39