Do you buy pedals only after exhaustively watching and rewatching YouTube demos? Me too. Did that for this one...knew EXACTLY what it did...and yet still stood there with a confused frown on my face on my first plug in.
Why?
It's like falling in love with a beautiful face, then discovering it's made of wax and putty stuck to a deep-pile carpet.
At first, you're kinda repelled as it feels weird and isn't something you've ever touched or played with before. Then you start prodding and pulling it with some sort of semi-disgusted fascination...reshaping, reforming, pushing depths and pulling peaks where they really shouldn't exist. It's wrong. It's ugly. It's FUN.
Then...once you've gotten over the initial extremes and discovering just how far you can reshape your beautiful obsession (or dodgy music in this case) you realise that what you have is a one-of-a-kind sculpting tool that with the deftest and lightest of touches reacts and interacts in ways that you learn and understand quickly.
All of a sudden you're stroking those knobs and counterbalancing your wilder dialings to create refreshingly unique, resonantly musical and inspiringly obtuse sonic layers with ease. And you create a beauty that is actually yours, and not just a layer of musical vanity.
Well...that was my take anyway :) Go on...squish and pinch your musicality into something new!