The stereo reverb sounds great! It goes 100% wet. I could still find uses for all of them, even if sparingly. The glitchy ones are a little harder to incorporate into my music but they are so fun to play with. You can get weird subtle sounds from them as well as bizarre sci fi sounds. I find myself gravitating towards the haze, tunnel, strum, pattern, and warp effects. With the Microcosm you can get very nice reverse delays that behave how a normal delay would act by having your guitar trigger exactly when the reverse starts. You often end up playing in time with the delay rather than the other way around. Most reverse delays are just constantly cycling through the set bpm and reversing audio that falls within it's grid lines of quarter notes or whatever, which results in slightly sloppy, less than ideal delay sounds.

Because of the envelope triggered effects, you can get reverse delays that are much more useable! If you have ever use most reverse delay pedals you'll know what I mean. Every effect can be reversed which is awesome. The majority of the effects are envelope triggered it appears, so you may need to change exactly how you play into it. I LOVE the secondary knob functions that control overall modulation depth and rate. There's 3 or 4 main knobs (activity and repeats being the main 2) that do a lot of the effect shaping, which doesn't sound like a lot of variety, but often just by changing one knob, all the other knobs now behave differently to the new parameter changes. I wouldn't say there's a huge learning curve, just that the main knobs that control most parameters are macro knobs that may control several things at once all based on which effect is loaded. I have briefly run my synths through it but mostly I have been plugging in my guitar. I think this would also be a very good pedal for synthesizers. I like to play/make shoegaze music and I can hear tons of good sounds for that. It is beautifully weird and unpredictable! There are a lot of sounds I haven't heard other pedals make. Here are some of my thoughts on the pedal.

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