Death by Audio Robot 8-Bit Transposer and Fuzz Effects Pedal

Wanted to balance out the other reviewer (though I can't give it 5 stars b/c having to have a dedicated power supply has kept me from putting it on any boards so far). Everything he said is correct, but the chaos and noise of the pedal hasn't been a negative for me. I've written entire songs around the arpeggiator and I don't know that I can ever reproduce the exact sound b/c it really is finicky, but I think it's a beast for recording and coming up with ideas. The fuzz is extreme too, but I personally enjoy it.It's kind of weird that most people are going to use it with the volume knob turned down to basically 0 and god help you if you just crank it to noon and turn on the pedal, but that's just kind of how Death By Audio does things. It's a dumb big mess of a pedal that is probably not worth the money, but will get you some sounds nothing else will. If I could just power it more easily, I'd use it a lot more.

I knew that I was purchasing an experimental pedal, and I knew that it would have some crazy sounds that most people would not find usable. I saw some video reviews and heard one or two interesting sounds and thought, "Oh if I tweaked that just right I could do some cool stuff with this!" After owning it for about a month I realized how very limited it is.First off, this pedal is like a roller coaster with no controls. It defaults to a very high gain fun with a very muddy tone. I am playing through a very bright fender blues deluxe and it still is a very muddy tone that will not cut through the mix without massive EQ adjustments which you have no control over with the pedal itself. That being said, if you want to drop the gain down and make it a little more clean- you have no control over that either. The volume control will destroy your amp if you are not careful because it is extremely hot- in fact I haven't even gotten to a quarter turn. The power supply must be separate- you cannot daisy chain it which sucks. I doubt anyone is "just" using the robot as their only pedal ... The octave up and down settings are not very useful again because of the lack of tone control or gain control. The "random" arpeggiator setting was a great idea and the reason I bought it....but to change the speed of it you also change the pitch. If the adjustment knob even moves a nanometer (like you accidentally hit it) you are now playing in a different key. Say you want to have it at a certain pitch so you can play with your band- good luck finding that exact position on the dial and then keeping it there for a song. An adjustment of any amount makes a huge difference making it very difficult to dial in what you want.Maybe I'm wrong, but I've been playing guitar for 24 years and have owned over 50 pedals- this one didn't live up to the hype for me.I'll be getting another pedal similar to this with more control. Perhaps the geiger counter from WMD...