The MOOD MKII, released a couple years back, became one of those pedals people either bonded with immediately or spent months trying to figure out. The Chase Bliss BAD MOOD is the third pedal in the company’s Small Batch Bliss collection — a limited-run, made-to-order special edition that takes the same two-channel “instant bliss” workflow and points it somewhere darker.
The left side is still your effect suite — reverb, delay, pitch shifting — and the right side is still a micro looper that grabs brief moments and stretches them into something else. But BAD MOOD leans into the noisy, improper, trouble-making side of the design. It’s about musical disguises, radio loops that drift in and out of tune, splintered harmonies that don’t quite resolve. The two stereo channels can interact and interfere with each other in ways that feel less like an effect and more like a second musician who’s not following the chart.
It’s stereo I/O. Two internal presets, 122 more via MIDI. Internal modulation via ramping. Full MIDI control — note, PC, CC, clock sync. CV control. Expression pedal input. Trails on or off. Analog dry-through with buffered bypass. 9V DC, center negative, about 200 mA.
The Small Batch Bliss model is straightforward: there’s a month-long preorder period, everyone who wants one gets one, no limited quantities, no selling out. They make a pedal for you and ship it. The BAD MOOD is the third release in that line — after the first two special editions, they’re clearly using this series to explore the weirder corners of their existing designs without having to commit to a full production run.
$399, same price as the standard MOOD MKII. You’re not paying a premium for the limited edition — you’re just ordering within the window.
It’s not for everyone. It’s noisy. It’s improper. It’s going to get you in trouble. That’s the point.
