Currently watching Hologram Electronics Chroma Console vs Gen Loss II videos, I like the tape algo Eventide just added to the H90 and hoping they will add noise to it or even a VHS sim. I really think hard about singular usage pedals these days after getting the H90 lol.
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Ah OK, that explains a lot! 
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Certain it’s been said many times before, but Gen Loss II feels like the closest hardware equivalent to RC-20, minus the Space option, of course. You can achieve the Digital setting by switching into classic mode. It’s has great EQ profiles, clean boosts, stereo saturation, and it also does the tape degradation thing, too, haha. Lives at the end of my chain for endless color options.
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Anyone know what serial number the new modded hardware started from? (Bass loss mod)
do you have the original version or the modded version?
Chase Bliss said modded versions start with batch 2, but it seems unclear which exact serial number they start with and Chase Bliss does not provide any info about it. I’d guess serial numbers are mixed and therefore do not help much to find out.
So, deciding and buying a 2nd hand unit with mod or not, requires this information by the sellers who hopefully knows which version they have.
Btw.: Not modded ones can be modded afterwards, but the ones modded can’t go back unmodded.
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I’d shoot them an email. They were really quick to get back to me and, in my case, told me all the white ones (like mine) are modded with the latest firmware.
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The bass mod is not done by firmware upgrades, done only by soldering. New ones do all have the bass mod, since CB decided back then by popular demand (70%) that they do this on all their new units, starting with batch 2. That is what I know from back then.
That should read, are modded and have the latest firmware.
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im interested to hear how that gels together, do you have any examples you could share?
I tend to think of it in terms of : let’s make this whole thing sound like it was on tape. But I guess the way that you use it is more like the effect of dropping in a sample from something that was on tape?
Currently that set-up is packed away. I’m using different gear for January. I’ll get the Analogs set up again after Jamuary, because I have more to do on that project. Hopefully I’ll remember to record some examples.
EDIT: I’ve set a reminder…
I use it as a parallel FX chain that adds some dirt, and tweak mainly the Model knob as an EQ to let some harmonics shine (the ones that don’t overlap with the natural synth sound).
With other FX like Microcosm and Empress Reverb, it adds some real nice textures.
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Cheers guv!
anyone know how often they restock inventory? looking into a gen loss mk2. Also, if anyone’s compared the t-120 v2 deluxe from demedash and death by audio’s echo dream 2 to gen loss mk2, how do they hold up against each other? have a Maneco 16sec delay vintage mini coming in, but as its describe, is a delay looper.
Will be used mostly on monos (303, sh01a, db01, etc…)
I have a T-120 and Gen Loss, they are pretty different imo. T-120 is more or less a delay that can do a lo-fi warble & tape flutter like stuff. Gen Loss has a bunch of different models and modulation options.
T-120 is closer to Tonal Recall or Thermae from CBA, gonna get most use a delay. Gen Loss can do that but can also get quite experimental and has more different types of color and character.
Both are cool, if you’re looking for something relatively straight forward but with a bit of character then T-120. If you want to dig into things and do a bunch of experimentation with different lo-fi sounds then Gen Loss.
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perfect feedback, thank you!
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I finally found myself considering kicking this off my board, but instead I flipped it over to classic mode which I hadn’t been using at all. For now, I’m finding the combination of high pass and low pass filters to be a better fit for the stuff I’m doing. Anyone else using it in this mode? I only wish that the bit crusher could be swapped out with the saturation from the regular mode. As much as I’ve tried, I can’t get into bit crushers on guitar.
I tend to use this pedal really subtly, which always makes me wonder if it’s really worth it, but I really like with the resonant peak of filters does on guitar and playing around earlier with the high and low pass filters combined with the wow and flutter I was getting that really subtle melancholy smeared sound (bloom?) on the end of notes that I think of as the Incredible Hulk sound, as it always make me think of hearing this theme song on TV when I was a kid. That’s always the sound I look for in lofi pedals.
Interestingly I just discovered that this video with really bad actual generation loss sounds like it has a bit crusher on it.
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Anyone have ideas about getting rid of this and using Analog Heat (probably mk2 + fx) instead?
I use it as a desktop unit so I’m wondering if it would be better to just make switch to something not designed as a “pedal”
GenLoss2 does its degradation thing better.
AH+ isn’t very close sound wise, although maybe you could try, but way less specialized, and can do a loooot more things. More modulations, more ways to transform or just bref the sound…
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Yeah, if you’re only using it for saturation, AH might be a good replacement. Other than that, you’re comparing a very specialized pedal that kinda does one thing exceptionally well and very easily with hands on controls (Genloss) with a multi FX box that can do so much but takes time and is rather menu divey (AH + FX). I think what’s so great about Genloss is that you can just feed whatever into it and it always becomes more interesting in subtle ways.
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