Get Lost: How to Choose Between Gen Loss Mkii or Lossy by Chase Bliss

Here we are going through the sounds of loss. More specifically, the differences and similarities between the Lossy pedal, a collaboration between Chase Bliss and Goodhertz…(essentially the Lossy plug-in in pedal format) and the Generation Loss Mkii, here in 10th Anniversary Limited Edition VHS colourway.

Lossy dissects the digital degradation from the late 90s and early 2000s. Ripping a CD to your computer as mp3 and then burning it to a CD-R, giving it to a buddy who then rips it to mp3s on their computer and uploading it to Napster on a 56k modem, for you to then download it back onto your computer on your parent’s dial up connection. Audio at its finest! Lossy explores all the digital mess that came along during that era and lets you bring it to new life in a way you can choose for yourself!

Gen Loss goes back in time even more, to the 80s, and the early days when physical tape—reel to reel—was still in use. Wow and flutter and failure and over saturation. Dirty and noisy and full of hiss.

Both of these pedals can bring a new sound to your signal chain from the sounds of yesterday, but which one if for you?

Come along as we explore the two pedals side by side. How do they differ? How are they the same? Can we get the same sounds out of each one? (TL;DR: YES!)

Hopefully this helps answer the question: “Which loss should I choose?”