If you’ve been on social media at all lately, you’ve probably been blasted with Temu ads promising unbeatable prices… including music gear. So I did what I do best: I bought the weirdest, cheapest music production gadgets I could find and tried to actually make music with them. Quick disclaimer: this video is NOT sponsored. Temu did reach out, but I backed out after looking into the brand, and they told me I could keep the items—so I figured we’d just honestly test everything on-camera. I start with a $25 “Mining Universe” reverb pedal that has room/hall/plate/spring plus presets like shimmer and “blo” (I’m assuming that’s Bloom). It surprisingly works, but the noise is a huge problem—so bad that I had to repitch my sample just to mask it. Then I stack some random percussion pickups (shell bracelet, cymbal bells, and a shaman drum) and build a beat from scratch. After that, the $29 Cube Baby multi-effects pedal actually shocked me—in a good way. It turns on, has a headphone out, reverb/modulation/EQ/boost/tuner, and I genuinely got a lot of usable guitar sounds out of it. We also mess with a steel hang drum (super musical since it stays in one key), and I finish with an unbranded $19 toy keyboard that’s hilariously scuffed—fake “screen” sticker, no real output, and only two notes at a time—but the weird sounds are kind of the whole point.