I got called at the last minute for a fill-in New Years Eve gig, 5 minutes from my house. I'm all fired up because the stage is big, and even though I've never really played with the band, between us, we all know a ton of classic rock standards. So I pulled out my favorite Strat, and my big pedalboard and my Mesa. The last few gigs have been in closets and I have used my Strat with mini-hums to deal with noisy electrical systems, and a smaller pedalboard, and my smallest amp. So I plugin and the tone is right, and I tuneup and test/setup my effects and then I get to the Voodoo Labs Microvibe..... Nothing but silence!!! I turn it back off and perfect sound, check all cables and all is good. I ignored that pedal all night and had a good time but damn if that isn't the 2nd Voodoo Labs pedal to do that to me. I looked on youtube and a Phillip McKnight video talking about boutique pedals and lo and behold, one of his faulty pedals is a Microvibe. There was also a Phasor or Flanger or something from Voodoo Labs that had quit on him. I bought an Ibanez TS-9, used and beat to hell in 1982, and it has been underwater (major storm during an outside and it STILL works with no issues. I have a Voodoo Labs Sparkledrive that died within a year. As stated in McKnight's video, I bought the pedals because there are supposedly American made with quality parts. In the video, he looks at the inside of the Voodoo Labs pedal and finds a cheap Chinese made circuit board. I have nothing against Chinese made stuff, but I felt like I paid extra for better..... Anyway, I will save $50. or so from now on and just buy the standard BOSS pedals. Consistent performance from one pedal to the next, built like tanks, and they fit uniformly on my boards. ...and back to my TS-9's while I am at it. I'm probably jinxing myself, but I have never had an Ibanez or BOSS pedal fail.