Lovely track!
I feel similar, I usually feel it adds too much (and too obvious) or you need to use it very subtle to the point where I wonder if it’s even worth the hassle. I might sell mine, not sure yet.
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Thanks! Yeah, I feel exactly the same as you. Ironically, i seems to be more like an ambient pedal for me, which I would have never expected.
Probably it’s more useful for artists mostly using acoustic instruments. I feel like a lot of the modulation Gen Loss does can also be achieved with LFOs, which most synths and samplers have. And the degradation usually involves quite heavy filtering.
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That’s how I use mine. I love it for that. Light saturation; even lighter warble; tape mode as “eq”; just on one track (of my Analog Four) to make it have a different colour from the others. You could say I’m under-using the GenLoss, but I couldn’t get the tones it provides so easily otherwise. And the saturation is ear-drugs.
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Thanks for the tip, it does a nice sound in your track at 3:30, will maybe try it in that context.
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Great, don’t hesitate to share your results! I did something similar in the latter half of “Imaginary Past Lives” on that same EP, if that gives you an idea.
Still loving my GLMKII. I have a GLMK1 arriving today as I feel that the classic mode in the MKII wasn’t as versatile as the original. I sold my MK1 when the prices were mad and that profit paid fro my MKII, so now I’m re-buying them at their lowest price point. The MK1 has a unique ‘fizziness’ and grittiness that is a nice addendum to other lo-fi pedals.
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Hi, I’ve searching in the manual and I’ve seen the video manual and I can’t find and answer to this… Is there a way to reset the pedal and go back to factory defaults? Once I will begin tweaking the hidden options if I go back to default values would be great… thanks!
Not with a button combo but i am pretty sure the manual says what the defaults for each hidden setting are.
If you have Max 4 Live I think they released a visual editor that will maybe make it easier to see what they are set to.
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Thank you very much. I’ve been reading another time the manual, I’m interested in the default settings for the hidden options, and I don’t know, seeing the picture f the manual in the hidden options page it seems that the default settings are at 12 o’clock
My mistake, it doesn’t actually say, I think I am thinking of the El Capistan manual which tells you the default of the hidden functions. I don’t think it’s hugely important how they are set though because most of them are things you adjust to your own taste?
I meddled with the hidden settings once when i got it to get where I wanted to and have never bothered since.
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Yeah I don’t think there’s a way to restore defaults, but you could ask CB. Their support is great.
Are they that many hidden functions?
I’ll try that, thanks both
I don’t hear much about this one anymore. How are people getting along with it?
It’s really good on a parallel FX chain, I use it very often. And more as some kind of a defective EQ, in fact ^^
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Mine is permanently hooked to my OB-6.
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@DimensionsTomorrow: See my post above from August.
I‘m always close to selling it, as it’s a bit of a hassle for me to use it for final touches on a production. It’s really good for giving sound more character. On main elements I would use mild, „barely there“ settings for it. For textures or transitions, more extreme settings can give you really interesting results.
I assume it’s great if you’re the kind of person who builds a library of weird textures and samples. If you use it on main elements it gets a bit samey quickly, I wouldn’t buy it for that. A little bit of random pitch LFO, filtering etc. is as good for that imo.
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Yeah, I can see that. In most of the videos I’ve seen I really dislike the over the top settings. There are certain times where it sounds really great though. I can, however, see where it might start to feel gimmicky after a while unless you use it subtly/sparingly.
I was toying with the idea of getting myself a pedal for Christmas and was actually leaning towards the Benson delay. Then I realized my favorite sounds from it were the lo-fi modulation sounds in the last section of this video (from 33:05 onward), which got me thinking of the Gen Loss MKII.
Then again, I have a Volante, Deco, and some filter and modulation pedals, as well as an SP404mkii and Portastudio, so maybe I should save my $$$ and use what I have. 
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I think so. I’ll underline that the GenLoss2 introduces a slight delay that prevents to mix it to the original sound even with a parallel FX chain. So yes, do with what you have seems the best path.
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