Chorus pedal

A few weeks ago, I was minding my own business whilst surfing a little on the Internet, when suddenly popped up an advert from Ali Express. I willingly confess that only rarely do I look at these adverts, and I consider them very much a nuisance. This time, however, the ad caught my eye: guitar pedals were being sold for about 3.5 NIS (as I don't recall the exact price, I'll call it about 0.75$). This of course is a ridiculous price and should be considered a loss leader.

By the time I decided to purchase a chorus pedal, its price had shot up to about 14.5 NIS (about 3.80$) - still a ridiculous price. So I ordered the pedal: how can I lose at that price? I wanted to add a phaser, but whilst I had been fiddling with the order, the price of the phaser had tripled to about 43 NIS - still about 40% of how much such a pedal from a no-name supplier would cost. I passed on this opportunity.

One might ask why I want to buy a chorus pedal (even at its ridiculously low price) when I already own the multifunctional guitar effects pedal¹ that I bought in February. This pedal has a chorus effect and in fact recently I've been using the chorus preset that I defined several months ago. But over the months I have become less and less satisfied with the multi pedal:

1. When the pedal is turned on (i.e. connected to power, although the pedal has its own power supply), the bluetooth connection is turned on. This causes a small blue light to flash continually. I don't use bluetooth. After trying to turn it off and failing (but causing something else to happen), I decided months ago to ignore it.
   
2. Again, when the pedal is turned on, the first preset is automatically selected and engaged.
3. Whilst playing guitar and operating the pedal, I occasionally hit the wrong foot switch.
4. The idea of presets is very good, but the way that it is implemented is poor - to my mind. Just getting into preset mode is difficult. Two foot switches have to be pressed simultaneously, but I can never remember which two, and anyway I have difficulty pressing two at the same time. 
5. Should I manage to enter preset mode, I have no idea of what the current values for the different parameters are. Should I wish to reduce the volume for preset 3 (the chorus), I have to redefine all the parameters and so probably end up with something else from what I wanted. It would be good if there were little displays next to each parameter - or that the knobs are automatically turned to match the saved values - but I understand that such improvements would probably cost no small amount of money, thus jacking up the price of the unit and making it less attractive than individual pedals.

So for the time being, I'm going to remove the multi-pedal and replace it with the minuscule chorus pedal. I assume that the quality of the pedal will be reasonable.

At the same time, I have been bombarded with letters from Ali Express (well, one every two days) encouraging me to buy from them again. Temu doesn't do this.

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