I've already purchased a mood and will receive it today, but this is literally the best demo I've seen. Seriously, fantastic job. I would buy this pedal just based on this video alone. Broke it down very simply and played some GORGEOUS loops.
9:28 Is this the only kind of active loop playback mode on Mood? Im understanding that the drolo side only plays back by engaging switch and only changing whats looped by disengaging and re-engaging switch? If I'm understanding wrong, can someone explain which are all the settings for drolo side that allow active loop playback? Thanks!!
Thanks for this great demo! Beautiful sounds, much more inspiring than other demos of the MOOD I've seen. I especially liked your demo of the env mode, such a good example of how it can be used.
I have this and the Gravitas, along with 30 other pedals , from a Boss to Fulltone, MXR, to Walrus, Earthquaker Devices, Wampler...etc. Is Mood incredible to mess around with and create some looping parts, inspire some new, weird embellishments into your songs, 100%, and it is incredibly well made, with the same 16 external dip switches on the top plate as every other Chase Bliss Pedal, 6 knobs, 4 toggles, 2 bypass switches, the possibilities are infinite, however, would I put this on my pedalboard, or use it in a live setting without another external looper? No. As creative as you can get with this, and as much of a learning curve as it has, it has a feeling of uncertainty each time you plug back in. It doesn’t feel like any other pedal, where you mark your settings and can pick your tone right back up, or with something simple like a Boss Tremolo, can easily find the setting you want quickly by tweaking 3 knobs. This is a very complex piece of gear. Not complex as in WHAT it does, but HOW you go about achieving different combinations. I like to use it as a separate pedal, next to my chain, and to me, it’s worth the money for the quality, and sheer magnitude of what you can do with it, but it’s also not a “main” type pedal, and I cant see recording on more than 2 songs an album with it. It also can get a little funky with an isolated power source. It’s completely fine on it’s own, but I’ve plugged it into my Walrus Aetos, with a few other pedals, and it, as well as the Gravitas tremolo turned off, until they were only used separately. I love Chase Bliss. They make inspiring, quality pedals for the price, but for me, it’ll probably be a while before I buy another (esp w the Dark World being out of production) as there are Earthquaker and Walrus pedals that suit the needs of the sound I want a bit more steadily, that I use more often. This is a great demo, btw. I’ve truly gotten some incredible stuff out of this box. I’d recommend it only if you have 350 to burn, and want something very , very different than even some of the most unique, well made “boutique “ pedals out there.
I’m looking for a pedal to just drone and loop on its own while I solo over it - would you choose the mood or the count to five by Montreal assembly ? Or do you think i should wait for blooper ?
They're both sample buffers but MOOD does it as more of a delay where the sample becomes your delay repeat. Then you can "mangle" the repeat/sample, stretch it, effect it. The Infinite Jets is more of a pure sample and hold where you record a sample (either on it's own or using the A&B foot switches in manual mode) and the sample acts as more of a "pad" underneath your playing (unless you dial out the dry signal completely). The Jets also has a fully controllable LFO. The Infinite Jets imo is an incredible performance tool and maybe my favorite pedal ever. You can do some similar things but ultimately MOOD is a sample buffer/granular delay and Infinite Jets is a sample and hold.
@@TheBroadestBlue a "sample" just means a recording/snippet of your playing. The "buffer" is the chip/memory that records/stores the "sample" (the recording). The sample is then played back as your delay repeat. "Granular delay" and "Sample buffer delay" are basically the same term; a sample/grain/snippet recording of your playing used as a delay repeat. When a delay uses a "sample buffer" (like MOOD and other "granular" delays) to produce the repeats, you can "stretch" and "shrink" those repeats the way you can with any recording (like when you speed up and slow down a cassette tape). This also can pitch shift the repeats. Which is a big draw of granular delays. A "sample and hold" takes a sample/recording of your playing and "freezes" or sustains it while you play over it instead of repeating the sample like a granular/sample buffer delay. LFO is a Low Frequency Oscillator. Which is harder to explain than to hear but it's essentially a self-sustaining, pulsating signal that can do a lot of things (depending on use/application). On the Infinite Jets the LFO can help sustain your samples, intensify them and also effect the speed and depth of modulation like an expression pedal would. Hope that helps. I can't reccommend the Infinite Jets enough although, if you're new to pedals you may find MOOD more instantly fun. Can't go wrong.
@@enkiea8322 So a "sample and hold" is like the sustain pedal on a piano, sort of? It records a single moment in time, of sound passing through, and sustains it? Thanks for your help! I, too, am waiting for the Blooper-my favorite pedal demo-ist plus my favorite pedal company (the Warped Vinyl is what really got me interested in pedals). And I think I will save up to also get the Infinite Jets…and perhaps by then, a stereo version will come out.
My not so helpful answer at all is they’re completely different things... In a general sense they do a lot of similar things. They’re both glitch pedals and both can do short loops. They both can do pitch shifted delay, reverse delay, pitch shifted loops, tape stop (kinda), and a few other things. They’re also both very inspiring. MOOD is more like a weird eurorack delay/looper type thing in a pedal and Tensor is more like a DL4 and Space Station crammed in a box. Particle 2 also has a lot of shared ground with MOOD but is more a combination of both MOOD sides but way more predictable
This is the demo that finally made me pull the trigger on buying this. That env section is just sublime! How did you get the tone for the looped part? (The warbly vibrato sound). Great work on a fantastic demo 👌
Dude, the envelope section is making me think I need this pedal, but what I REALLY want to see is how well this pedal gets along with the Tensor. Have you experimented with those two together?
I actually haven't used them together yet, I'll have to mess around with that. I usually use them for similar things (with very different results), so I hadn't thought to combine them
@@collectoremitter There isn't a single video, reddit thread, anything about combining those two pedals. But, it just makes since to me to take that envelope mode, let it do its thing, and run that into the Tensor to modulate from there. It just sounds like a magical idea. You'd be the first on youtube to do it...
It's cool but it's not as inspired as some of his previous creations. Really, imho, respectfully, Mood is a bit of a market grab that came about a year too late. Trying to snag those who got left behind in the Drolo/Pladask/Cooper FX/Montreal Assembly time-stretch wars of 2015-2018. I wait impatiently for Blooper. Fantastic demo as always C//E.
Bruh, every pedal is a "market grab". Joel gotta eat and he ain't the Gates Foundation. Plus, Drolo is part of the pedal along with OBNE. Mood is a beautiful pedal, unique in it's own way compared to Molecular Disruptor, Fabrikat (I love this!), or Count to Five.
Blooper and mood are very different. basically the only thing they have in common is that they both can loop and even then that would be a misdirect because mood is a microlooper. As joel said, "Blooper is serious shit".
@@nathanw32 Blooper is more of a "professional" looper, whereas Mood is more of an ambient/music/experimental machine. Google "Chase Bliss Blooper vs Mood". There is a really good blog post on ChaseBliss' website that explains the differences in detail.
Update: A few weeks ago I sat in an empty room with this playing, and wrote a bunch of lyrics, or dare I call them pre-lyrics, because I was just letting the mind-movie flow. That may be the first time I wrote over somebody else's groove (nor do I normally write over "grooves"/loops). Now I'm trying to figure out if I'll need to get this pedal to turn it into a song, or if I can get a similar feeling with the Infinite Jets, which I want more. I'm mainly referring to the music in the first five minutes of this video-the pitch-shifting stuff.
Chase Bliss is so ahead of their time and forward thinking that it will become it's own genre of music at some point. And I, for one, can't wait.
Seriously. I listen to three genres: 60s orchestral pop, 2002-2007 indie, and Chase Bliss demos.
How the heck does Joel even come up with these tho
@@willfowler8540 it just was Joel, it was also the rad OBNE and Drolo.
Tycho uses this pedal a lot. Check them out.
@@Peeziejizzle Been listening since Dive
The most musical use of the Mood I have heard on UA-cam. Bravo!
Thanks so much! I really appreciate it 😄
bpsychoz you’d like the knobs channel
Amazing demo, dude! The ENV section was incredible. Very inspiring!
I really appreciate it dude! Once I found that env setting I knew I stumbled onto magic and had to share it!
@@collectoremitter envelope is no joke on the mood, it's the hardest one to feel out
I think this is my absolute favourite demo of yours. Beautiful sounds / visuals man.
I think it might be my favorite too 😄 thanks man!
7:15 inspired me to buy this pedal. Thank you!
So glad the demo helped! And I hope the MOOD treats you well 😄
Sounds like the OBNE Sunlight with Input 0 and Decay Max :-)
I wish this video would never end. All the loops you created here were so mesmerizing and made me feel cozy.
Strong agree on the “Battles Tones” at @6:39
Came for the pedal and learned something new, but the music is what made me stay.
This pedal is the raddest, but your choices and playing are equally as rad. Brilliant really.
Thanks so much! I really appreciate it
The intro riff is really nice. 👍
I've already purchased a mood and will receive it today, but this is literally the best demo I've seen. Seriously, fantastic job. I would buy this pedal just based on this video alone. Broke it down very simply and played some GORGEOUS loops.
Hey Kno...umm, hi new pedal channel. Rad sounds and stuff. I dig.
Just pulled the trigger. This tipped me over the edge. Beautiful demo.
What a great demo. My Friday is off to a good start
just bought this. so excited for it to come. thanks for the lovely demo
Hope you enjoy it!
Possibly the most useful demo of this I've seen yet. And there are a lot. Thanks.
Thanks so much! I really tried to find the musical settings within it since others had already done tutorial/control walkthrough type videos
Killed it with this one Ian!
Thanks so much man!
Keep coming back to listen to the beginning and the part showing envelope mode all the time.
beautiful music with an awesome pedal...thanks for sharing!
Thanks so much!
Really good stuff, mate! Love the sounds you are getting out of this.
Thanks so much! I love your videos as well
I'm digging in trying to choose between this and the Tensor...
Amazing.
9:28 Is this the only kind of active loop playback mode on Mood? Im understanding that the drolo side only plays back by engaging switch and only changing whats looped by disengaging and re-engaging switch? If I'm understanding wrong, can someone explain which are all the settings for drolo side that allow active loop playback? Thanks!!
Amazing!
Thanks for this great demo! Beautiful sounds, much more inspiring than other demos of the MOOD I've seen. I especially liked your demo of the env mode, such a good example of how it can be used.
Thanks so much! I really appreciate it. When I stumbled upon that env setting I knew I needed to share it. It’s pure magic!
I have this and the Gravitas, along with 30 other pedals , from a Boss to Fulltone, MXR, to Walrus, Earthquaker Devices, Wampler...etc. Is Mood incredible to mess around with and create some looping parts, inspire some new, weird embellishments into your songs, 100%, and it is incredibly well made, with the same 16 external dip switches on the top plate as every other Chase Bliss Pedal, 6 knobs, 4 toggles, 2 bypass switches, the possibilities are infinite, however, would I put this on my pedalboard, or use it in a live setting without another external looper? No. As creative as you can get with this, and as much of a learning curve as it has, it has a feeling of uncertainty each time you plug back in. It doesn’t feel like any other pedal, where you mark your settings and can pick your tone right back up, or with something simple like a Boss Tremolo, can easily find the setting you want quickly by tweaking 3 knobs. This is a very complex piece of gear. Not complex as in WHAT it does, but HOW you go about achieving different combinations. I like to use it as a separate pedal, next to my chain, and to me, it’s worth the money for the quality, and sheer magnitude of what you can do with it, but it’s also not a “main” type pedal, and I cant see recording on more than 2 songs an album with it. It also can get a little funky with an isolated power source. It’s completely fine on it’s own, but I’ve plugged it into my Walrus Aetos, with a few other pedals, and it, as well as the Gravitas tremolo turned off, until they were only used separately. I love Chase Bliss. They make inspiring, quality pedals for the price, but for me, it’ll probably be a while before I buy another (esp w the Dark World being out of production) as there are Earthquaker and Walrus pedals that suit the needs of the sound I want a bit more steadily, that I use more often. This is a great demo, btw. I’ve truly gotten some incredible stuff out of this box. I’d recommend it only if you have 350 to burn, and want something very , very different than even some of the most unique, well made “boutique “ pedals out there.
great job!
also. would love to run this in one side of the Stretch Weaver and the CT5 in the other side.
It's the dawn chorus.
!!! lovely stuff
I’m looking for a pedal to just drone and loop on its own while I solo over it - would you choose the mood or the count to five by Montreal assembly ? Or do you think i should wait for blooper ?
I think any of the three would work. Mood is very intuitive and quick to find sounds you like
As someone trying to understand the world of pedals…how does this differ from Hologram's Infinite Jets?
They're both sample buffers but MOOD does it as more of a delay where the sample becomes your delay repeat. Then you can "mangle" the repeat/sample, stretch it, effect it.
The Infinite Jets is more of a pure sample and hold where you record a sample (either on it's own or using the A&B foot switches in manual mode) and the sample acts as more of a "pad" underneath your playing (unless you dial out the dry signal completely). The Jets also has a fully controllable LFO.
The Infinite Jets imo is an incredible performance tool and maybe my favorite pedal ever.
You can do some similar things but ultimately MOOD is a sample buffer/granular delay and Infinite Jets is a sample and hold.
@@enkiea8322 From your response, I am looking up definitions of the following terms: "sample buffer", "LFO", "sample and hold", "granular delay".
@@enkiea8322 Also, you mentioned Infinite Jets as a performance tool…I would be down to check out music you've made with it!
@@TheBroadestBlue a "sample" just means a recording/snippet of your playing. The "buffer" is the chip/memory that records/stores the "sample" (the recording). The sample is then played back as your delay repeat.
"Granular delay" and "Sample buffer delay" are basically the same term; a sample/grain/snippet recording of your playing used as a delay repeat.
When a delay uses a "sample buffer" (like MOOD and other "granular" delays) to produce the repeats, you can "stretch" and "shrink" those repeats the way you can with any recording (like when you speed up and slow down a cassette tape). This also can pitch shift the repeats. Which is a big draw of granular delays.
A "sample and hold" takes a sample/recording of your playing and "freezes" or sustains it while you play over it instead of repeating the sample like a granular/sample buffer delay.
LFO is a Low Frequency Oscillator. Which is harder to explain than to hear but it's essentially a self-sustaining, pulsating signal that can do a lot of things (depending on use/application). On the Infinite Jets the LFO can help sustain your samples, intensify them and also effect the speed and depth of modulation like an expression pedal would.
Hope that helps. I can't reccommend the Infinite Jets enough although, if you're new to pedals you may find MOOD more instantly fun. Can't go wrong.
@@enkiea8322 So a "sample and hold" is like the sustain pedal on a piano, sort of? It records a single moment in time, of sound passing through, and sustains it?
Thanks for your help! I, too, am waiting for the Blooper-my favorite pedal demo-ist plus my favorite pedal company (the Warped Vinyl is what really got me interested in pedals). And I think I will save up to also get the Infinite Jets…and perhaps by then, a stereo version will come out.
how do you find this compared to the tensor ?
My not so helpful answer at all is they’re completely different things...
In a general sense they do a lot of similar things. They’re both glitch pedals and both can do short loops. They both can do pitch shifted delay, reverse delay, pitch shifted loops, tape stop (kinda), and a few other things. They’re also both very inspiring.
MOOD is more like a weird eurorack delay/looper type thing in a pedal and Tensor is more like a DL4 and Space Station crammed in a box. Particle 2 also has a lot of shared ground with MOOD but is more a combination of both MOOD sides but way more predictable
Tensor is focused on the avante grade techniques of tape machines. Which at times can be granular in nature.
@@collectoremitter what do u ptefer? Particle v2 or mood
chase bliss mood vs thermea which one wins
They're two very different pedals IMO, but if I had to choose I would most likely pick Mood
This is the demo that finally made me pull the trigger on buying this. That env section is just sublime! How did you get the tone for the looped part? (The warbly vibrato sound). Great work on a fantastic demo 👌
That’s just the natural vibrato (or maybe just out of tune-ness) or my playing! It really becomes apparent once the tiny loops start
Did u do a count to 5 demo if not why and when?
I haven’t only because there are already so many. I’ve used it in some videos, but usually have newer pedals to focus on
Dude, the envelope section is making me think I need this pedal, but what I REALLY want to see is how well this pedal gets along with the Tensor. Have you experimented with those two together?
I actually haven't used them together yet, I'll have to mess around with that. I usually use them for similar things (with very different results), so I hadn't thought to combine them
@@collectoremitter There isn't a single video, reddit thread, anything about combining those two pedals. But, it just makes since to me to take that envelope mode, let it do its thing, and run that into the Tensor to modulate from there. It just sounds like a magical idea.
You'd be the first on youtube to do it...
@@collectoremitter I bought the blacked out version from Reverb today. So, next week we'll see how they play together!
This may be a dumb question, but is everything heard here from only this pedal? I didn’t think the Mood had any sort of reverse option.
In slip mode yea
Yup, this is all the MOOD! There is reverse from both the Slip mode and Tape mode
This thing is ambient af
It’s an ambient machine! Perfect for drone or IDM too
It's cool but it's not as inspired as some of his previous creations. Really, imho, respectfully, Mood is a bit of a market grab that came about a year too late. Trying to snag those who got left behind in the Drolo/Pladask/Cooper FX/Montreal Assembly time-stretch wars of 2015-2018.
I wait impatiently for Blooper.
Fantastic demo as always C//E.
Bruh, every pedal is a "market grab". Joel gotta eat and he ain't the Gates Foundation. Plus, Drolo is part of the pedal along with OBNE. Mood is a beautiful pedal, unique in it's own way compared to Molecular Disruptor, Fabrikat (I love this!), or Count to Five.
Blooper and mood are very different. basically the only thing they have in common is that they both can loop and even then that would be a misdirect because mood is a microlooper. As joel said, "Blooper is serious shit".
@@godjesus3232 Would you mind helping me understand the difference? I know I want one of them, but don't know which.
@@nathanw32 Blooper is more of a "professional" looper, whereas Mood is more of an ambient/music/experimental machine. Google "Chase Bliss Blooper vs Mood". There is a really good blog post on ChaseBliss' website that explains the differences in detail.
Zamasu Zen thank you! Guess that explains the price difference
Update: A few weeks ago I sat in an empty room with this playing, and wrote a bunch of lyrics, or dare I call them pre-lyrics, because I was just letting the mind-movie flow. That may be the first time I wrote over somebody else's groove (nor do I normally write over "grooves"/loops). Now I'm trying to figure out if I'll need to get this pedal to turn it into a song, or if I can get a similar feeling with the Infinite Jets, which I want more. I'm mainly referring to the music in the first five minutes of this video-the pitch-shifting stuff.
Wow, what a good comment! Glad I could add a little bit of inspiration to your day 😄
Can it do reverse sound ?
Reverse delay, but not “real time” reverse
@@collectoremitter how could you do real time reverse? :)
Damn, everyone wants to be Knobs.
You got me
sirmelancholia damn,everybody wants to be a dick
Pocketful Of Fog Oh, I’m definitely a dick; no question about that.