#Chase bliss mod#
#Chase bliss manual#

This is the simplest of the bunch: to the left of noon, it adds woozy modulation in classic Memory Man style to the right, it does the same thing but with lashings of added background hiss. This can be magically pretty just make sure the routing switch is set to ‘in’ or ‘feed’ for cascading intervals rather than a single pitch-shift.Ī2 is called ‘stability’.

#Chase bliss mod#

Now let’s explore the six modified modes.Ī1 is ‘stepped speed’, which sets the repeats fluttering off skywards in fifths and octaves, going higher and faster as you push the mod control further round – and reversing them when you turn it left of 12 o’clock. At normal settings, the noisefloor is low and the repeats are clean. You can produce a lot of perfectly tame and pleasant delay sounds with this thing, and that’s really just a matter of starting with the ‘spread’ and ‘scan’ dials at zero.Īs long as the three toggle switches are centred and the dip-switches are all in the off position, you’ll have a basic digital delay with three knobs: delay level, repeats (feedback) and size (time). If you’re disturbed by the idea of a pedal that might be a better musician than you, don’t panic. This is where to store your wildest glitchscape settings, for fear of never being able to find them again. But one of two presets can be recalled simply by flipping it left or right.

#Chase bliss manual#

With this set to the centre, you’re in standard manual mode. But there’s one more feature that could aid with navigation, and it’s nestled between the bypass and tap-tempo footswitches: a preset switch. ‘Modify’ lets you adjust any one of six sound-mutating modes selected via the two toggle switches below it, while ‘spread’ and ‘scan’ let you bring back snippets of sound from anywhere in the pedal’s always-recording three-minute memory.Īnother toggle switch alters the internal routing so that the repeats are modified just once or cumulatively, or are fed back into the memory for extra-zany looping.įurther control comes via a row of 16 dip-switches along the back – half of them for choosing which parameters will be affected by an expression pedal, the other half offering yet more sonic customisation. It’s only on the second row of controls that you’ll run into real mischief. The three dials along the top act just as they do on any delay pedal, offering everything from subtle background echoes to eternal repeats (but not uncontrollable self-oscillation). That’s not to say the Habit can’t do the straightforward stuff. And he’s not there to make Tube Screamers. But while this playful-looking yellow box shares some DNA with the Blooper and Mood pedals, it ventures a lot further in the direction of autonomous noise-mangling than those units.Īt least part of that is down to Scott Harper, the man behind the quirky Knobs channel on YouTube, who collaborated on the Blooper but is now Chase Bliss’s full-time director of product development.

Should you be excited or scared? Probably a bit of both.Ĭhase Bliss has done wibbly-warbly oddness before. This many-layered gadget begins as a simple enough delay but then shakes things up with all kinds of glitchy modulation, synthesis and randomised looping. READ MORE: SM Octave Fuzz review: Hendrix in a box and much more besides The Chase Bliss Habit Echo Collector is a highly unconventional delay pedal – in the same way an elephant is a highly unconventional insect.

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