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.We also have a web-based editor for tweaking and managing your presets.ĭesigned and assembled in USA.The Chase Bliss Habit Echo Collector is a highly unconventional delay pedal – in the same way an elephant is a highly unconventional insect. The expression pedal can be assigned to any combination of parameters. One preset available on the left footswitch, 4 using a remote footswitch, and 127 via MIDI. Holding down the foot switches gives you two different types of infinite sustain.

The low and high damping knobs adjust dynamics for ducking reverb or an expander for more reverb on louder notes, with adjustable threshold and recovery time. When the shift button is held down, the top row of knobs adjust delay parameters. The Context can create ghostly reverb effects, slowly sweeping resonances, and at higher modulation settings is a multi-voice granular processor that creates clouds of detuned sound fragments for entirely new reverb sounds. The SST-282 was released in 1978 and used multiple delay taps with modulation to create reverb effects. Grain mode is a granular reverb inspired by the Ursa Major SST-282 Space Station.

The modulation is tremolo with adjustable intensity and speed. You can adjust the length of the decay, high and low frequency damping. The spring reverb was designed using the techniques and algorithms that were used in 1980's reverbs, but with enough DSP power to drip and feel like a spring tank. Reverse reverb fades in louder and brighter over time, giving the impression of playing backwards. Holding down the shift button adjusts the modulation rate. It gives you a mix of different modulation types from 1980's and early 90's reverbs, including chorus modulation, random modulation that keeps the pitch stable, and deep modulated reverbs. The modulation knob changes the amount and character of the internal reverb modulation, specific to each algorithm. In addition, delay is always available, along with tremolo in spring mode. Each algorithm features separate high and low frequency damping controls, pre-delay, modulation, dynamics (duck/expand), and infinite hold. It has 8 algorithms, including room, hall, cathedral, gated reverb, reverse reverb, plate, spring, and a granular reverb. The Context is a reverb pedal inspired by 1980's rack mount reverbs.

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