FenderReflecting Pool Delay/Reverb Pedal

It's about time Fender got into the business of making effects pedals. Some of their pedals are quite good like the Mirror Image delay for example. The Reflecting Pool, however, was a complete misfire. I spent around an hour with this unit and wasn't too thrilled with the reverbs or delays coming from this unit. Also, the audio quality just wasn't up to Strymon, Neunaber, Meris, EarthQuaker Devices, etc. Also the review here complaining about the footswitches is spot-on. They're difficult to operate and this actually should be the easiest thing to press on the pedal! I bought this pedal to have something that had delay/reverb on it and on the surface it seemed like it offered some beautiful sounds, but it was just cumbersome to work with and it took a long time to tweak both the delay/reverb sides to get a decent sound out of it. I disliked this pedal immensely, so I returned it and I'm sad to say this, but this will be my last Fender effects pedal. Buyer beware!Stick with Strymon, Meris, EarthQuaker Devices, Neunaber, Chase Bliss Audio, Empress Effects, Walrus Audio, and Source Audio and you shouldn't be disappointed.

I would love to say it’s great, but since it doesn’t take a battery and I don’t have a power supply I’ll just have to wait a couple of more days to try it. Seems to me that a power supply should be included since it’s worthless without it.

I have this and the Fender Tre-verb pedal. I say the same thing about both of them:They sound pretty good, although for the price, the alternative is arguably better. These have a good easy-to-use design, but do require a lot of dialing-in, you will be frustrated just plugging-in straight out of the box.The biggest complaint, by far, is that these pedals have very low-quality vacuum switches. They have a weak click, and need to be depressed all-the-way-down to snap. On both of my pedals, I have to stomp the switch on the left repeatedly to make it switch. For a pedal that looks so bulletproof, I think it should have much better switches.One of the pedals also has a potentiometer that feels weird, but it seems to work.