Chase Bliss Bad Mood: Bad-Tempered Ambient Creativity?
Sometimes a Bad Mood is all you need to be creative
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The Bad Mood is the latest release in Chase Bliss’s limited small-batch. Offering a take on the Mood Mk2, this is a more “wicked,” definitely more broken-sounding ambient effect.
Contents – Chase Bliss Bad Mood
Bad Mood
The Chase Bliss Bad Mood can essentially be divided into its two sections, like the Mood Mk2.
It consists of two halves: a micro-looper on the right that chops up incoming audio and reassembles it in even more outlandish, often almost destructive, ways, and a wet channel on the left with reverb, delay, and a harmonizer.
Chaotic Mood?
As is typical of Chase Bliss, the Bad Mood is a rather complex effect with many happy accidents, where you can get lost in its complexity and create sounds that leave you wondering how you did it. If you love experimenting, this version of the Mood will appeal to you. If you enjoy a little chaos with your creativity, then strap in and enjoy this mood.
Small Batch
As part of the Small Batch series, Bad Mood is only available for pre-order until the end of August.
However, for those still hesitating: CB later released a second edition of Reverse Mode C and now Lost + Found in a new finish. So, you could (probably) wait for long-term reviews and check back in a few months, but you may have to wait a long time.
What does the Bad Mood sound like?
Anyone familiar with Mood Mk2 will be surprised. Because, of course, Chase Bliss Bad Mood is also an ambient machine capable of creating micro-loops and soundscapes. But judging from the audio demos, it sounds considerably more broken, leaning more towards lo-fi and shoegaze. Making it perfect for adding some creative moodiness to your productions and guitar tones.
Whether it’s the “Soup” reverb, the “Relay” delay, or the “Flip” harmonizer on the “Wet Channel” page, or the three new micro-loop modes “Burst,” “Radio,” and “Mask”: everything sounds more broken, noisier, but still ambient. Shoegaze wall-of-sound fans and Mk.Gee sound explorers alike should find plenty to enjoy here.
What’s truly special about the “Radio” mode in the Chase Bliss Bad Mood is the five “stations” or genres that you can switch between using the Modify knob: “Tape,” “Ambient,” “Orchestral,” “Shoegaze,” and “Dance.” Each mode reassembles, layers, and twists the elements of a micro-loop differently.
As is typical for Chase Bliss pedals, this one also offers a bewildering array of additional functions and secondary modes. You’ll find a detailed breakdown of these in the manual. Besides the “Radio” mode, there’s a secondary function called “Cross,” accessible by holding down both footswitches and then turning the “Time” knob.
In short, you can determine here whether you modulate the volume and pitch of the other effect half with either the input signal or with one of the two effect halves.
For example, if you have the “Soup” reverb active and select the input signal as the source in “Cross” mode, it modulates the reverb tail. This tail then begins to wobble and change in a way you’ve never heard from reverb before, depending on how dynamically you play.
And what else? Everything in stereo , the typical dip switches on the top for additional sounds and effects, available in two colors ( red and black ).
Lost + Found 2026: New color and new firmware
Oh, and CB’s Lost + Found multi-effects unit is now available in a new finish, similar to last year’s Reverse Mode C – this time it’s black. There’s also a new firmware update (for those who already own the first version).
Price & Availability
The Chase Bliss Bad Mood is part of Small Batch, a limited series from Chase Bliss available only by pre-order until a specific date. In this case, the deadline for pre-orders is August 31, 2026. This also applies to the new color of the Lost + Found.
Both pedals, Bad Mood and Lost + Found 2026, are only available to order from Chase Bliss’s EU shop for €469 each (including shipping).
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