I got a Billy Strings Wombtone in mine. Was initially disappointed because it was not a pedal I was really thinking about wanting, but upon plugging it in quickly remembered my deep love of analog phasers and tbh it's incredible. In the week I've had it I have already incorporated it into my rig and writing. I didn't know what I needed. Mystery Box Joel knew what I needed.
Having owned most Chase Bliss pedals already I ordered a box mainly for the fun of it. I was pleasantly surprised when I received a second Habit and have been rocking a dual parallel Habit setup on my ambient board since!
Got a Dark World and EXP roller in my box. Sick value. Only slightly disappointing because I think they will likely do a Dark World 2 or at least some sort of new reverb in the next year or so. Still very happy I participated, love Chase Bliss.
Originally got a Blooper in my box, and enjoyed playing around with it for a few days. Especially using it as a delay with modifiers, some really cool sounds there. Ended up trading it for a Clean which has been such an instant upgrade in tone. Dusty mode has been a lot of fun and stacks so well into other drives and fuzzes The Good One sounds sick as well, great pull! I’m going to have to go play one next time I’m at Pedal Empire
Nice haul, that muff sounds huge! I got a Blooper and Empty Head Effects "The Lover" still haven't spent much time with either but very pleased with the value!
I grabbed one at midnight. With my luck, I got the only pedal I was hoping NOT to get: Wombtone. Whoops. At least $300 is a cheap reminder of why I never gamble!
I was traveling for three weeks and finally today got the chance to open my box....and got a Mood MkII plus the EXP. The Mood MkII is one of my favorite pedals ever, though I am not sure I need two of them. Tradin' time!
Onward, Clean, & Habit are pretty high on my list of, "hoped for,"' but honestly I'm just stoked to get my first CB pedal for a significant discount. Thermae looks pretty rad as well, and of course there's so many other companies contributing. Stoked to hear that they are going to do this next year as well.
I got a CXM in my MB, I think I have to get another amp for better stereo setup now :) Safe to say it was NOT expected...would have been happy with most other pedals that isn't a Mood (which I already have), with Clean and maybe Blooper at the top of the list.
I didn’t join the CB mystery box, but I did Wren and Cuff’s mystery pedal (2nd year) and I nabbed my second Good One. Such an amazing big muff. Perfection!
I've got around 20 or so Big Muffs. My two favorites are a custom Triangle made by Seeker Electric Effects and The Good One. Nice score! I'm still waiting on my mystery box.
Awesome score in your MB. Your playing is superb - you have a new subscriber. I got a BS Wombtone and traded it for a Mood mkii because I already have the Wombtone (which I love). The Mood will be a new one for me, and that is what I was looking for (actually, I wanted a Dirt Bird!).
I ordered as soon as I woke up, about 5 hours after the sale opened. I got a Lossy and an EXP. I was very happy as I already had an Onward and Mood MKII. I'm definitely satisfied with my Mystery Box.
I participated! I got the BS Wombtone and I’m unfortunately very over stuffed with modulation. I’ll be trading it. I was REALLY hoping for a Clean, Condor, or Dirt Bird. On the Friends of Bliss side, I would have loved the Good One, Eye See ‘78, or the orange Dark Star. But alas, no luck on my hopefuls. Awesome experience and will 100% do it again!
mine should get shipped in the next week or so! it will be my first chase bliss pedal despite having followed them for a while, so I'll be stoked with whatever i get. fingers crossed for the golden pin!!
I'm not one to throw money around unwisely (typically prefer to shop used or trade gear after lots of research) but the Mystery Box promo got me! It seemed like a really fun way to support an awesome small company and despite the mystery, still seemed like a low risk. My box should arrive tomorrow! Hope I have as good of luck as you!
Mine’s coming tomorrow, too! I haven’t been this excited to open a package since I was perhaps 10 years old. I’d love a Clean, and that W&C fuzz is quite a lucky turn! Chase Bliss is awesome.
Man, a little jealous after the hype of seeing others get a bonus pedal. I got a lossy and nothing else. Lossy and wombtone were the only 2 I would probably never use =/ Was really hoping for a blooper, gen loss, or a clean. or obviously a friends of bliss bonus.
Such a brilliant marketing scheme. Still waiting on mine, expect to be for a while. I'm Canadian so I assume all the RoHS none compliant stuff is a zero percent chance limiting the options of which Bliss to a pretty guessable gamut. But all the other builders who pitched in, that's the most interesting thing for me I have no clue what'll happen with those.
Random question: When using the chase bliss pedals with your cortex do you have issues where it sounds over driven? For me my MOOD MKII distorts very easy.
Great video 👍👍👏👏 The Mystery Box was such a fun and exciting thing from Chase Bliss. 🙌👍👍 I was so curious, what I eventually would receive. I already have so many Chase Bliss pedals, so that it was a huge surprise when I got one that I didn't own so far, and it is the Clean. 🧡💚 I really didn't intend to buy it at the moment, because I have a UA Teletronix LA-2A and a Jackson Audio Bloom. But the Clean is sooo good. 🤩 My icing on the cake in the Mystery box was the Collision Devices Black Hole Symmetry. 🖤🖤 Delay and reverb sound really great, just the (this) fuzz is not so useful for me (loving my DevTech Audio Gilmour Muff and the Blackout Effectors Musket v2).
Thermae is my all time favorite delay pedal. Using it without the pitch shifting its just the best analog delay tone I own. But the pitch shifting while clocked to the DAW is so good.
I ordered 2MB! But still waiting for them to arrive, they said end of January… I always wanted Chase bliss pedal but their standard prices in EU are very high… Hope will get MOOD and ONWARD. fingers crossed
My Chase Bliss mystery box was a Mood Mk II (~$500 brand new on all the listings I saw) AND their roller expression pedal ($200). $700 value for $300. They've won me as a customer for life.
Great video Mark! Would you be more likely to use the Cali 76 or the Clean as your most regularly used compressor? (With full appreciation for how you might have different use cases for each.) - I bought a Mystery box and got a Clean but was looking to buy a Cali 76 before getting it.
@ oh I get it. I’m not up to snuff on fuzz to the level that it didn’t occur to me that I was making “a choice” by grabbing the Jazzmaster model that’s synonymous with fuzz. I just grabbed a guitar I thought would sound good with fuzz haha.
I just received mine. I ordered mine just before noon on the day it was released. I haven’t been this excited to open something in decades. Sadly for my collection, I received a duplicate Habit, but it was totally worth it to be so excited through the holiday season. Is there anyone who’d like to do an even swap for Clean, Onward, Warped Vinyl, Lossy, Blooper or Thermae? I’ll definitely be participating next holidays! Happy New Year to everyone!
@@cozy_mellow_mood Nothing confirmed, but Joel from CB has mentioned on Instagram a few times how stoked he was on the excitement around the Mystery Boxes and a few mentions of 'next time', presumably before the holidays later this year.
@@markjohnstonofficiala mood mk II - which I did debate keeping to make a mood mk 4 but sold to a friend for what I paid. At least got to keep the EXP pedal that came with it as well. That’s just the mystery of the box!
Seems kinda hard to demo that setup considering you really need to be playing it to feel the difference. We might hear differences, but in my experience with compression and Fuzz/Overdrive you really do feel the sound more than you hear it.
I knew the risk. But the odds were certainly better than the lottery. Despite having two compressors already, Clean is dope and very interesting. Just hoped for glitchy and weird!! So in revenge I bought Onward and Blooper last Monday night while drunk. I'll be eating toast for a fortnight. They showed up yesterday. You win, CB. Well played.
Was underwhelmed with my mystery box, just got the clean, Probably the one I least wanted, great pedal but won't make it on my board Wish there was a Lil something extra
Lame. Send the guy that has literally EVERY piece of gear, because he has a RUclips following, a great "Mystery Box". Doesn't seem so mysterious! I got a shitty bumper sticker and the same pedal I just bought as a new release, CBA BillStringWombtone. 😢
It’s a marketing strategy. Giving a freebie to some unknown random isn’t gonna return much customers. If you want a freebie why don’t you just ask them?
It was random. If they were truly sending him a great box they likely wouldn’t have got a pedal he already has two of, he’d have got a Dirt Bird. As it was the pedal that ended up being the centrepiece of the demo wasn’t even a CB pedal.
I paid the same price as everyone else for a mystery box and mine arrived like a month after people started getting them because that’s where I my order number was in the queue. I’m not sure what the marketing benefit would have been for sending me a box with a pedal I already have for a sale they’re no longer running several weeks after the initial hype had calmed a bit. Pro tip: at the start of the video there is a badge that will tell you if a video is sponsored content and this one does not have that.
I lucked out. Onward plus a bonus pedal - Okko Compressor. Super happy!
Oooh thats rad. ive always been curious about their comp
@ It’s my first Okko pedal and I’m loving it. Using it right into the Onward, which is a deep pedal…
Onward is unreal
@@nilsx3020 really hoping for the Onward in mine
I got a Billy Strings Wombtone in mine. Was initially disappointed because it was not a pedal I was really thinking about wanting, but upon plugging it in quickly remembered my deep love of analog phasers and tbh it's incredible. In the week I've had it I have already incorporated it into my rig and writing. I didn't know what I needed. Mystery Box Joel knew what I needed.
The good one sounds amazing and I'm lucky...I had CXM 1978 in my MB. Clearly the Mystery Box is a gamechanger
Having owned most Chase Bliss pedals already I ordered a box mainly for the fun of it. I was pleasantly surprised when I received a second Habit and have been rocking a dual parallel Habit setup on my ambient board since!
Nice draw! Literally just opened mine. Got a Thermae. Psyched to put it through its paces.
kicking myself for not going for the W&C mystery box, that fuzz sounds so dang good
Got a Dark World and EXP roller in my box. Sick value. Only slightly disappointing because I think they will likely do a Dark World 2 or at least some sort of new reverb in the next year or so. Still very happy I participated, love Chase Bliss.
I missed out on this. But I was saving for my first gold top LP. Hopefully they do this again in the future.
Originally got a Blooper in my box, and enjoyed playing around with it for a few days. Especially using it as a delay with modifiers, some really cool sounds there. Ended up trading it for a Clean which has been such an instant upgrade in tone. Dusty mode has been a lot of fun and stacks so well into other drives and fuzzes
The Good One sounds sick as well, great pull! I’m going to have to go play one next time I’m at Pedal Empire
Super excited for my first CB pedal to arrive for my mysterybox. I'd be happy with anything they send me!
I was lucky to get a Preamp MKII in my Mystery Box. Pretty much the greatest pedal I've ever played after only a couple days.
You won the Mystery Box lottery.
Hyped to get mine this month. My dream pull would be the Preamp MKii
Nice haul, that muff sounds huge! I got a Blooper and Empty Head Effects "The Lover" still haven't spent much time with either but very pleased with the value!
I just got the shipping notification on mine! Can’t wait to get it!
I grabbed one at midnight. With my luck, I got the only pedal I was hoping NOT to get: Wombtone. Whoops. At least $300 is a cheap reminder of why I never gamble!
Meanwhile I would’ve loved one and couldn’t afford to gamble at the time! At least you can sell or trade it, I guess!
You get a clean, you get a clean and you get a clean!
Mine will arrive sometime in March, so I’ll have to be patient…
Congrats on that extra pedal!
I can’t wait for my box to arrive - so excited!
Still waiting for mine here in the UK, can’t wait!
I was traveling for three weeks and finally today got the chance to open my box....and got a Mood MkII plus the EXP. The Mood MkII is one of my favorite pedals ever, though I am not sure I need two of them. Tradin' time!
Onward, Clean, & Habit are pretty high on my list of, "hoped for,"' but honestly I'm just stoked to get my first CB pedal for a significant discount. Thermae looks pretty rad as well, and of course there's so many other companies contributing. Stoked to hear that they are going to do this next year as well.
I got a CXM in my MB, I think I have to get another amp for better stereo setup now :) Safe to say it was NOT expected...would have been happy with most other pedals that isn't a Mood (which I already have), with Clean and maybe Blooper at the top of the list.
That's pretty crazy getting one of those. Enjoy man!
I didn’t join the CB mystery box, but I did Wren and Cuff’s mystery pedal (2nd year) and I nabbed my second Good One. Such an amazing big muff. Perfection!
I've got around 20 or so Big Muffs. My two favorites are a custom Triangle made by Seeker Electric Effects and The Good One. Nice score! I'm still waiting on my mystery box.
Awesome score in your MB. Your playing is superb - you have a new subscriber.
I got a BS Wombtone and traded it for a Mood mkii because I already have the Wombtone (which I love). The Mood will be a new one for me, and that is what I was looking for (actually, I wanted a Dirt Bird!).
You should do an ALL Chase Bliss pedalboard demo video.
It might very well be in the cards
Mine has finally shipped. I can't wait to see what comes 🤞
I love that fuzz and I am so glad YOU got that box 😉
So lucky! I got the one thing they make or have ever made that is an absolute paperweight for my rig, a phaser. So it’s a $300 resale project.
I ordered as soon as I woke up, about 5 hours after the sale opened. I got a Lossy and an EXP. I was very happy as I already had an Onward and Mood MKII. I'm definitely satisfied with my Mystery Box.
I participated! I got the BS Wombtone and I’m unfortunately very over stuffed with modulation. I’ll be trading it. I was REALLY hoping for a Clean, Condor, or Dirt Bird. On the Friends of Bliss side, I would have loved the Good One, Eye See ‘78, or the orange Dark Star. But alas, no luck on my hopefuls. Awesome experience and will 100% do it again!
I bet I could use all 3 cleans. Pre drive, post drives and end of chain.
mine should get shipped in the next week or so! it will be my first chase bliss pedal despite having followed them for a while, so I'll be stoked with whatever i get. fingers crossed for the golden pin!!
it's a blooper! now to figure out how the hell it works
I got CLEAN for Christmas. It’s pretty awesome!
Glorious tone man!
You're so lucky. I've been GASing for that Wren & Cuff pedal. It's a $310 pedal.
I'm not one to throw money around unwisely (typically prefer to shop used or trade gear after lots of research) but the Mystery Box promo got me! It seemed like a really fun way to support an awesome small company and despite the mystery, still seemed like a low risk. My box should arrive tomorrow! Hope I have as good of luck as you!
Mine’s coming tomorrow, too! I haven’t been this excited to open a package since I was perhaps 10 years old. I’d love a Clean, and that W&C fuzz is quite a lucky turn! Chase Bliss is awesome.
Man, a little jealous after the hype of seeing others get a bonus pedal. I got a lossy and nothing else. Lossy and wombtone were the only 2 I would probably never use =/ Was really hoping for a blooper, gen loss, or a clean. or obviously a friends of bliss bonus.
I got a mood ii and expression pedal, already had both. Still stoked tho, gonna sell the expression pedal and run two moods at once
Mine arrived a bit ago (and I'm local to Chase Bliss HQ). Got Thermae in mine.
I got only one pedal in my MB, plus the one received I have it already. Billy Strings - Wombtone.
Such a brilliant marketing scheme. Still waiting on mine, expect to be for a while. I'm Canadian so I assume all the RoHS none compliant stuff is a zero percent chance limiting the options of which Bliss to a pretty guessable gamut. But all the other builders who pitched in, that's the most interesting thing for me I have no clue what'll happen with those.
Been thinking about switching out my j mascis pickguard - where did you get yours?
I got one of the last ones - ordered a day before it closed! Won't get my pedal until March at this rate
Mine comes Monday! ❤
Random question: When using the chase bliss pedals with your cortex do you have issues where it sounds over driven? For me my MOOD MKII distorts very easy.
Still waiting on mine. 1st choice (obv) is golden pin lol, then Clean or Automatone Preamp
Great video 👍👍👏👏
The Mystery Box was such a fun and exciting thing from Chase Bliss. 🙌👍👍 I was so curious, what I eventually would receive.
I already have so many Chase Bliss pedals, so that it was a huge surprise when I got one that I didn't own so far, and it is the Clean. 🧡💚
I really didn't intend to buy it at the moment, because I have a UA Teletronix LA-2A and a Jackson Audio Bloom. But the Clean is sooo good. 🤩
My icing on the cake in the Mystery box was the Collision Devices Black Hole Symmetry. 🖤🖤
Delay and reverb sound really great, just the (this) fuzz is not so useful for me (loving my DevTech Audio Gilmour Muff and the Blackout Effectors Musket v2).
Got the wombtone, it's pretty amazing.
I need to follow up on my order!
CLEAN #3 giveaway? 😂 I was so close to trying to grab one of these boxes. Maybe next year
Still eagerly awaiting my mystery box! Thought the Clean ( as newest release) was excluded from the mystery box?
I got a Thermae from mine, love it, but now figuring it in a live/musical setting has been a bit of a challenge
Thermae is my all time favorite delay pedal. Using it without the pitch shifting its just the best analog delay tone I own. But the pitch shifting while clocked to the DAW is so good.
@markjohnstonofficial thanks for the advice! I just got the Sending v2 for Christmas so I’m analog overdosing atm!!
I ordered 2MB! But still waiting for them to arrive, they said end of January… I always wanted Chase bliss pedal but their standard prices in EU are very high… Hope will get MOOD and ONWARD. fingers crossed
Still waiting on mine! I’m about 450 orders away :D
My Chase Bliss mystery box was a Mood Mk II (~$500 brand new on all the listings I saw) AND their roller expression pedal ($200). $700 value for $300. They've won me as a customer for life.
Great video Mark! Would you be more likely to use the Cali 76 or the Clean as your most regularly used compressor? (With full appreciation for how you might have different use cases for each.) - I bought a Mystery box and got a Clean but was looking to buy a Cali 76 before getting it.
I have two cleans now as well aha
I ended up getting a Dirt Bird and Lossy!
Thats a solid haul
So legit!
I'll trade a MB Onward for one of your Cleans
I don’t know a lot about big muffs.. **plugs in J Mascis jazzmaster lmfao
apparently they’ll just let anyone buy one of these.
@@markjohnstonofficial haha no shots fired here man I just love the irony of that
@ oh I get it. I’m not up to snuff on fuzz to the level that it didn’t occur to me that I was making “a choice” by grabbing the Jazzmaster model that’s synonymous with fuzz. I just grabbed a guitar I thought would sound good with fuzz haha.
@ yes! Exactly.. J mascis is known and THE big muff guy.. that guitar felt very at home playing through that
I just received mine. I ordered mine just before noon on the day it was released. I haven’t been this excited to open something in decades. Sadly for my collection, I received a duplicate Habit, but it was totally worth it to be so excited through the holiday season. Is there anyone who’d like to do an even swap for Clean, Onward, Warped Vinyl, Lossy, Blooper or Thermae? I’ll definitely be participating next holidays! Happy New Year to everyone!
Im waiting for mine, has not shipped yet 😅
The anticipation is a part of the experience!
Wren&cuff is the sh**! ❤
I just checked and they're sold out of the Mystery Box. How often do they offer those?
this is the only time they've ever done it.
But they do plan to do it again next year! 🎉
@@markjohnstonofficial aw man! 😭
@@thelonius17schannel80 next year as in 2026??? not even later this year? that's a long time away.
@@cozy_mellow_mood Nothing confirmed, but Joel from CB has mentioned on Instagram a few times how stoked he was on the excitement around the Mystery Boxes and a few mentions of 'next time', presumably before the holidays later this year.
Dude that fuzz
RIGHT?
I have one chase bliss and I ended up getting that same pedal in my box… what are the odds… 😂
Haha it goes that was sometimes. What was it?
@@markjohnstonofficiala mood mk II - which I did debate keeping to make a mood mk 4 but sold to a friend for what I paid. At least got to keep the EXP pedal that came with it as well. That’s just the mystery of the box!
are you mckinnon bro?
Cool playing. Sub.
Hey Mark, Give me one of the extra clean pedal for free, please? 😂
Nah
Not lucky here. Had a MB MOOD II which I already had…
I was very lucky and got a CXM.
Seems kinda hard to demo that setup considering you really need to be playing it to feel the difference. We might hear differences, but in my experience with compression and Fuzz/Overdrive you really do feel the sound more than you hear it.
I have every Chase Bliss pedal so I was hoping for a bonus pedal myself. No dice this time - got a wombtone. I have one more box on the way though.
I think I will get a quad cortex
I love traditional gear but I’m tired of searching for the next great pedal ,amp etc
You don't go to an AA meeting and announce you think you'll go grab a beer.
3x clean = the squeaky clean
still waiting for my CB Mystery Box; excited for whatever comes my way :) this is a solid pull, for sure!
stereo Thermaes would have been fantastic to see though
i got just a Clean
I knew the risk. But the odds were certainly better than the lottery.
Despite having two compressors already, Clean is dope and very interesting.
Just hoped for glitchy and weird!!
So in revenge I bought Onward and Blooper last Monday night while drunk. I'll be eating toast for a fortnight. They showed up yesterday.
You win, CB. Well played.
pay without knowing what your paying for? can you return it if you can't use what they chose for you?
No, but there’s a trading area on their Discord for folks to swap around any duplicates.
You’d easily get your money back and more on the resale market, every box was $/€300
@@PedalChainsAddiction thanks
@@tompoynton thanks, first i've heard about this. neat idea.
Was underwhelmed with my mystery box, just got the clean, Probably the one I least wanted, great pedal but won't make it on my board
Wish there was a Lil something extra
Big fan of Wren…don’t have any.
I have had them in the past. Wont be selling this for sure.
Anyone get a Willy Wonka Golden Ticket?
What is a Mystery Box?
Bet you influencers got better boxes.
Lame. Send the guy that has literally EVERY piece of gear, because he has a RUclips following, a great "Mystery Box". Doesn't seem so mysterious! I got a shitty bumper sticker and the same pedal I just bought as a new release, CBA BillStringWombtone. 😢
It’s a marketing strategy. Giving a freebie to some unknown random isn’t gonna return much customers. If you want a freebie why don’t you just ask them?
It was random. If they were truly sending him a great box they likely wouldn’t have got a pedal he already has two of, he’d have got a Dirt Bird. As it was the pedal that ended up being the centrepiece of the demo wasn’t even a CB pedal.
I paid the same price as everyone else for a mystery box and mine arrived like a month after people started getting them because that’s where I my order number was in the queue. I’m not sure what the marketing benefit would have been for sending me a box with a pedal I already have for a sale they’re no longer running several weeks after the initial hype had calmed a bit.
Pro tip: at the start of the video there is a badge that will tell you if a video is sponsored content and this one does not have that.
I received a blooper and a crushternal ... amazing value 🫠