I was very close to getting a lotus octah pedal from a UK dealer, however countless email enquiries regarding the performance of the Octah to the company, Mollon; resulted in a no response.
I would love to try it in real life, but honestly speaking I think almost all the clips available online for these pedals really are a bad representation of what they sound like. The company has really nailed it with the marketing of the brand image, sweet packaging, I believe the pedals are shrouded in a black silk cloth in the box, really nice "engraved" enclosures too. Gives new meaning to the word boutique.
There's been a lot of hype generated by these pedals and lot's of them have found their way to pro-players' pedalboard, Scott Henderson, Reb Beach, Doug Aldrich etc. That in itself must stand for something really big!
Would love to try them when they arrive!