Hey! I have a Montreal Assembly Count to 5, but am considering selling it and picking up a Chase Bliss Mood. I’ve watched a lot of videos and feel like Mood is kinda like a CT5 but just has even more features? Anyone have any hands-on experience with both and is there a clear “winner” between the two? Just not sure I’d miss anything jumping from the CT5 to the Mood - want to see what you all think. Thanks in advance! =)
I have both. Got the CT5 after having the Mood for a bit. CT5 mode 2 is most often pointed toward as being similar to Mood. Mood can’t do anything like mode 3.
They’re as different as they are similar. I use them both often, and for different applications. I don’t know if I’d want to ever give up the 3 tape heads of mode 3! It’s too interesting. On the Mood side, I’d really miss the clock, and how it instantly turns a sound into something else. Ramping would be missed a lot too. I don’t find the CT5 to do near the amount of modulation the Mood does.
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Damn, I thought this was a thread about counting to 5 before reacting if in a bad mood.
I’m out.
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get both while you are here
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I got CT5 after Mood. CT5’s mode 1 got old pretty fast for me, though if you could control the delay time it would probably be my favorite digital delay pedal because it sounds fantastic when adding lfo modulation. I use mode 2 the most, for the randomly-chopped looper thing. Mode 3 hasn’t been the most useful for me yet but does seem cool.
Mood is my favorite effect pedal right now since it’s so useful for me. I think it’s much more interesting than CT5, but also think they have very little overlap so there is easily room for both. I like sampling into Mood’s Env mode and then using a random-chopped loop from CT5 going into Mood to trigger the envelope.
I enjoy CT5 as a random looper, Mood for micro-loops from Tape mode, glitchy stuff with Env, washed out textures with Timestretch, octave up/down with Slip, clean digital or lofi BBD-esque echoes or sound-on-sound looping with delay, weird verbs and delays from the reverb algo, and as a noise generator. Pretty sure I’m going to sell the CT5 for a Blooper.
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Same here brother. =(
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Thanks for the reply! Glad to know there isn’t much overlap. I definitely think it’s worth trying both out, maybe I’ll do a little side by side. I definitely think the Blooper looks like a good time too! Chase Bliss stuff just always seems to have lots of features for the footprint, which is pretty cool.
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Thanks for this, yeah I guess having the multiple layers of mode 3 is probably pretty unique. That might be more like Blooper? So it sounds like you perhaps recommend both also? Isn’t that always the answer? 
haha
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Blooper doesn’t go 3 different speeds/pitches/directions at once!
I love my Blooper!!
I can’t presume your taste. #Trueforme - I love happy accidents and experimentation to find the gems. Mood, Blooper, and CT5 all have different characters that inspire me in different ways. I have all 3, and am not remotely considering selling any of them. If that is any kind of answer?
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Happy accidents are the spice of life! Which is why I like CT5 and want a Mood. Also wanting to try out a Pladask Fabrikat as well.
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I didn’t need to know about this.
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