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This one is hard to find but dear god is it fun once you get into all it can do… I‘m purging a lot of my gems as I think my gear frenzy has perhaps gone too far, which actually no, that’s not possible… but I’m doin more family life stuff and just don’t get the time to justify investing all my money into cool music stuff. One day, I’ll be back tho.. so here’s what it is: VFE Klein Bottle V2 in red with silver knobs. Excellent condition, home studio use only, never gigged or stomped on. Comes with original box, manual, and all packaging etc ..These don’t come up often. Peter Rutter at VFE builds in small batches between teaching at IDEA High School in Tacoma. The 2023 run was announced as the final V2 batch and the last DIY kits on Reverb sold out shortly after.I’ve been a recording engineer, producer, and multi instrumentalist for 20+ years and I’ve never had this kind of control over my tones. You can take your time and craft blends and textures that aren’t derivative of anything, or work the opposite way, take it to full insanity and walk it back until something new shows up. Even with generic Amazon pedals in the loops, this thing makes them work together into a signature sound.Okay, more about what it is …It’a is a three-loop parallel mixer with a 3x3 feedback matrix. Drop three of your pedals into the loops, and instead of running them in series, the Klein Bottle splits your signal across all three at once. Each loop has its own filtering and level. Six feedback knobs let any loop’s output feed any other loop’s input. A master dry blend keeps your fundamental tone underneath whatever you build on top.For multiband stuff, send lows, mids, and highs to different loops and run different effects on each. Different drive on the bass than the treble, octave fuzz on just the high end, compression on just the mids. The HPF and LPF on each loop with 6 or 12 dB per octave slopes is enough to build a real 3-way crossover. Or use the filters surgically and send only a narrow band through a heavily processed loop so you can commit to something extreme without losing your fundamental tone.For parallel blending you can stack reverbs, delays, tremolos, or modulations at different rates and subdivisions, or run a clean, a fuzz, and a shimmer all at once with the dry sitting underneath. Layered tones that just don’t happen in a series chain.The feedback grid is where things really get out of hand, in the best of ways. Six knobs route any loop’s return into any other loop’s send. Put a delay in one, a fuzz in another, a filter in the third, and start nudging the feedback. Drone, sustained noise, runaway textures that respond to your playing, same idea as a Buchla feedback patch in a stompbox. Set it to drift on its own and you’ve got a generative ambient bed to play melodies over, with the wet send going to a looper or DAW while the dry stays clean.Something I stumbled on that made my head explode… I was messing with an arpeggiator, then a rhythmic tremolo or chopper in another loop with that drone going, and all that chaos started organizing itself in time. Crafty melodic ideas, tempo shifts, weird timings I wouldn’t have come up with on my own. Two pattern pedals across different loops and the polyrhythms really do half the songwriting work for you.The wet send opens up a lot beyond looping. Run it to a second amp or interface input for stereo width or completely different tones to two amps. In the studio it’s a great reamp tool, split a DI three ways and sum it back. Wide input impedance and per-loop pre-gain trims mean it works just as well with synths, drum machines, and Eurorack as with guitar or bass, so you can process kick, snare, and hats through different loops, or run a synth through three filters in parallel.In ‘sends’ mode the three footswitches become A/B/C tone switching, one path per stomp.Each loop has pre-gain trim, sweepable HPF and LPF, slope toggle, pre/post filter routing, 0/180 phase, and send and return level. The pre/post switch is more useful than it sounds. Filter before the loop and you’re sculpting the source, filter after and you’re shaping the signal each pass through the feedback paths. Big difference on stretched out drones. With the six feedback knobs and master ‘dry’ blend you basically have a small mixing console out front.Footswitches have three modes. ‘All trails’ mutes only the loop input on bypass so tails and feedback keep going. ‘Sends’ keeps loops always on and the switches gate the output. Tap + tap + hold three seconds on any switch turns it momentary, good for foot-held swells.Specs:Dimensions 6.2” W x 5” L x 1.6” H (2.2” with knobs), 158 x 127 x 41/56 mmWeight about 2.5 lbs / 1.1 kgPower 9V to 18V DC center-negative, 18V recommended for synths or active sourcesCurrent draw 50 mA at 9V, 100 mA at 18VInput impedance 1 MΩ default, internally adjustableOutput drives down to 400 ΩTrue bypass, Carling 110-PM-OFF footswitchesThree TS FX loop sends and returns, mono input, mono main output, dedicated wet sendInternal trims for pre-gain per loop, LED brightness per loop, and charge pump frequency.I ship insured via UPS, usually get you the tracking number within 24 hours of purchase. I have tons of transacrions on Reverb, it’ll be packaged well and all that. I’m happy to answer any questions or just talk gear and nerd out. I’m open to offers, preferably reasonable ones :) I know there’s a pretty heavy cult following and I‘m happily a member of the cult, I just never go to the meetings much anymore haha... I know this will be a fun one for someone who can get more use than I can at this time. Enjoy, check my other listings .. i’ll do bundle discounts .