Chase Bliss Lost + Found

The Chase Bliss Lost + Found is the maker's first true multi-effect pedal: a compact, dual-footswitch stompbox that serves up off-menu reverbs, delays, modulation, pitch effects, synth effects and lo-fi textures¹. Chase Bliss describes it as "our first true multi-effect, a little museum of the rare and strange for you to wander around"², and the company is blunt that it is not a conventional workhorse: "Lost + Found is not bread + butter"³. It is sold in made-to-order Small Batch runs rather than as a standing catalog item, which shapes how and when you can buy one.

The pedal is built around twelve effects that can be combined, giving 144 effect combinations in total⁴. Its textures range from phasing resonators to melting synth octaves⁴, and its reverbs include a shoegaze-inspired Slow-Verb and an Ambient Reverb⁴. For a player deciding where it fits, it sits closer to the experimental end of multi-effects pedals than to a do-everything gigging unit.

What Lost + Found does: off-menu reverbs, delays, pitch and lo-fi textures

Rather than the standard delay-chorus-reverb lineup, Lost + Found draws on modes inspired by vintage oddities, rare effect types, and a few familiar favorites¹⁰. MusicRadar characterized its output as off-menu reverbs, delays, modulation, pitch effects, synth effects and lo-fi textures¹. Delicious Audio's product page groups the reverbs into Slow-Verb, a shoegaze-inspired algorithm, and Ambient Reverb⁴.

The Time knob changes job depending on the mode, which is worth understanding before you dial anything in⁴:

The two footswitches activate the left and right sides of the pedal separately, and holding down the button on one side activates a freeze effect⁹. That left/right split is central to how the pedal works in stereo, covered below.

The 2026 firmware adds another layer for players who like the stranger end of the pedal: you can now select between three different voicings for the resonator¹¹.

Power and connections: stereo I/O, MIDI and expression

Lost + Found is a dual stereo design, and users can blend effects across the stereo channels using dual three-way switches⁴. Its port layout is 9V DC center negative power, EXP/CV, TRS input, MIDI/AUX, and TRS output⁵. RockBoard's listing, drawing on the maker's product page, gives the power spec as 9V DC center negative at 270mA³; an earlier 2025 report from Guitar Pedal X listed 200mA for the original version⁵.

Connectivity extends well past the jacks on the sides. The pedal includes MIDI, CV, and Expression control⁴, which Pedal of the Day grouped among its advanced connectivity and customization options¹⁰. Preset management covers 4 onboard presets and 122 via MIDI on the 2026 version⁴; the original 2025 Collection of Curiosities run had 2 onboard presets¹⁰. There is also a 16-position DIP switch on the back panel for deeper tweaks⁴, the kind of dipswitch customization Chase Bliss pedals are known for⁴. Players wiring it into a larger rig may also find the MIDI pedals and expression pedals pages useful.

History and versions: Small Batch Bliss, the Zoom RP200 and the black finish

Lost + Found was announced on August 1, 2025 as part of a Small Batch limited release alongside a second-edition Reverse Mode C, with shipping in September and orders due by August 31⁹⁵. MusicRadar reported it as part of the Small Batch Bliss series, built to order¹, and Pedal of the Day identified it as the second pedal in that collection¹⁰. Small Batch Bliss exists, in Chase Bliss co-founder Joel Korte's words, because "the big one is that it lets us take chances and make things like Reverse Mode C."⁸

The design has a personal origin. It was inspired by founder Joel Korte's early experiments with multi-effects, notably the Zoom RP200, his first multi-effect unit⁴⁹. That lineage shows in the concept: a box of many small, characterful effects rather than one polished engine.

In 2026 the pedal returned in a new black finish, similar to the finish treatment Reverse Mode C received the year before⁶¹¹. Chase Bliss announced the 2026 run alongside a new MOOD-family pedal called BAD MOOD, with both available to order until the end of August¹¹⁷. The 2026 version ships with new firmware that addresses a request from owners: bringing back the overdriven resonator voicing¹¹.

What reviewers said

Early coverage was positive about the pedal's character. Guitar Pedal X, reporting on the announcement, called it "a surprisingly potent DSP Multi-FX" that "delivers even greater results than the sum of its component parts!"⁵. Later in the year, in Guitar Pedal X's roundup of the best new modulation, pitch, utility and multi-FX pedals of 2025, Stefan Karlsson wrote:

He noted some parallels to the Poly Effects Trails overall⁷. Pedal of the Day framed the pedal as Chase Bliss's first true multi-effect and praised its stereo connectivity, saying that "with gorgeous Stereo connectivity on tap, the sounds you create are broadcast in a wide spectrum"¹⁰. Delicious Audio described the pedal as a "museum of the rare and strange," offering textures that range from phasing resonators to melting synth octaves⁴.

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