Fullofkittens wrote:

But as with any hobby, money starts looking for somewhere to go, and thus my eyes fell upon the Chase Bliss Generation Loss Mkii pedal, which seemed purpose-built for my Haunted Lakes project:

...and there the collection starts growing. My favorite pedal companies at the moment are Chase Bliss and Kinotone, which both make extremely deep, boutique-y pedals, are both based in the city of Minneapolis, and which both seem to have realized that you can sell what is essentially a synth fx module for $400 in huge numbers if you just enclose it in a guitar pedal because guitar dads outnumber synth dads by thousands-to-one (and also they already spend huge money on guitars and amps so maybe the pedals don't seem as expensive?).

Customize the Happy Nerding FX AID (4HP, XL, or Pro) by selecting up to 32 algorithms via the fxa.app web editor. Choose from reverbs, delays, modulation, and distortions, then drag-and-drop to order them. The app generates a WAV file; play this audio into the module's CV input to update the firmware.