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hotknife wrote:

Bartimaeus wrote:I keep watching the demos for this pedals because they're so fun and still sound so good!

Can anyone confirm whether the MANDALA and/or AURORA use the FV1 chip? Certainly sounds like it to me.

The Bananana duder confirmed it on one of his instagram posts.

I initially wanted a Mandala as it seems like a more versatile Raptio, but it doesn't seem to be dethroning the Raptio from those who have/had both.

Eivind August wrote:

hotknife wrote:

Nice ninja edit. Had to log on to Instagram, as I did not remember having posted that.

whoismarykelly wrote:For me its the size of the Bananana pedals. Anything in a 1590A kind of sucks for mounting to a board and stepping on. Most of the time if you don't hit the switch perfectly you'll kick the pedal off the board accidentally. And they are especially bad for Pedaltrain boards. If they we're bigger I'd own at least two Mandalas. Maybe I'll just buy one and rehouse it at some point.

Pete wrote:So I got a Mandala, and it's almost really cool, except mine doesn't seem to work properly.

I'll be in momentary mode, when all of a sudden it'll change to latching, or vice versa. It does this on its own, not from flicking the momentary/latching switch. It doesn't get corrected from flicking the momentary/latching switch, or from turning the pedal off or on. The only fix is to unplug the power jack and put it back in. Then like 20 seconds later of playing the pedal, the same thing will happen. The footswitch doesn't work well-Sometimes it won't turn the pedal on at all, no matter how hard/soft I press on it. Sometimes the pedal won't turn off-I step on the switch repeatedly and nothing happens. Again, the only fix is to unplug the power jack and put it back in- The pedal works normally at first, and shortly later the same problems arise. I have to take the power jack in and out constantly. The music store I bought it from included a note saying to make sure it gets 200 mA. I have it powered through a Voodoo Lab 4x4 output capable of powering pedals up to 400 mA. I tried playing the pedal through a one spot, and the same issues are present.

whoismarykelly wrote:

Pete wrote:So I got a Mandala, and it's almost really cool, except mine doesn't seem to work properly.

I'll be in momentary mode, when all of a sudden it'll change to latching, or vice versa. It does this on its own, not from flicking the momentary/latching switch. It doesn't get corrected from flicking the momentary/latching switch, or from turning the pedal off or on. The only fix is to unplug the power jack and put it back in. Then like 20 seconds later of playing the pedal, the same thing will happen. The footswitch doesn't work well-Sometimes it won't turn the pedal on at all, no matter how hard/soft I press on it. Sometimes the pedal won't turn off-I step on the switch repeatedly and nothing happens. Again, the only fix is to unplug the power jack and put it back in- The pedal works normally at first, and shortly later the same problems arise. I have to take the power jack in and out constantly. The music store I bought it from included a note saying to make sure it gets 200 mA. I have it powered through a Voodoo Lab 4x4 output capable of powering pedals up to 400 mA. I tried playing the pedal through a one spot, and the same issues are present.

I wonder if this same pedal got sold a third time because I received a Mandala from Guitar Pedal Shoppe today. Pulled it out of the box and tested it for a few minutes and then promptly rehoused it because reasons. Now that I'm playing with it in the new box I'm noticing this exact same issue. Sometimes the main trigger switch will stop working and the only way to get it to work again is to cycle the power. Sometimes it works for 5 minutes. Sometimes it works for 30 seconds before it needs a power cycle. Problem on my end is I'm likely fucked because I rehoused the pedal and no one honors a warranty on a rehoused pedal. Did you figure out what the issue was with the broken one or did you just return it?