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When I acquired this pedal I was as excited as a child on Christmas morning. But with extended use and as soon as regency bias had faded I asked myself: "Do I really need this?". The answer was unfortunately no. It's a fun pedal, don't get me wrong, but I can hardly think of a practical use case that warrants the hefty price tag and the even more hefty 1000 mA current it needs from your board. The lack of a blend knob on the harmonizer function means that the harmonies absolutely overpower your clean notes. The "detune" function (which i experienced as just chorus) are nice but carry a large flaw. The pedal, being a pitch shifter, is meant to go at the front of your board and chorus should go almost last which makes the function nearly unusable with other effects.

Tldr. It's fun for going "Weeeeeee" but lacks the practicality for most pedal boards that a bassist would reasonably use.

Really great guitar I cannot recommend enough. Strong bright sound. Only negative is that it isn't set up well out of the box. Action was high and didn't have the best feel but with a little love and tuning up, it plays great. One of my favorite all time purchases.

I have a early 2002 Prototype Highway one in Honey Blonde with Rosewood and it is the best guitar I have ever played, great wood and construction. Eventually I will replace the tuners but they are still solid and I play this guitar everyday. Pickups are almost identical to the '65 vintage set in sound and response. Highly recommend getting one of these and the satin nitro lacquer finish is way better than the new poly they use, wears in like an old baseball glove and just feel like home!

Back in the mid 80's I was the systems engineer for Bryan Adams. His sound company for his first headlining tour was Jason Sound in North Vancouver and they had just purchased about 40 of these PM 1.5's for the PA system and monitors. I also did warranty service for Carver at the time. I brought one of these home, one day, to test after repair. My first wife, came out while I was doing a listening test, the only change being my Bryston 4B, replaced with the PM 1.5. We had a top-end Rega turntable, JBL 4311 studio monitors, etc. etc. She listened for a few minutes and said "What did you do to our stereo? It sounds like shit." She was not a techie or anything like that. I agreed. It sounded mushie, sorta. Kick drums sounded sorta puffy. The design of the power amp section was like an A/B (pos and Neg) with two vertical totem poles of transistors which would actively switch each vertical sections in or out, depending on the bipolar signal level. Since they were not active all the time, the resultant slew rate was quite low and the effect of this was audible. But they only weighed about 18 lbs each so cost less to ship from show to show. That power amp would be my last choice, based on my experience.