01—Chase Bliss Audio
Habit
Turning the delay pedal into a memory device — playing back what you forgot you played.
The most conceptually adventurous delay made in the last decade. Not for everyone. Essential for the right player.
02—On the bench
An echo-collector. Habit records two minutes of your playing into a rolling buffer and then lets you reach back into that buffer to retrieve, mangle, and resample the past. Tonally it's a delay, but the interaction model is closer to a sampler — knobs control how far back to scrub, how much to mangle, what to repeat, and what to leave alone. The 'spread' knob smears time into texture; the 'modify' knob applies filtering, pitch, and reverse to the resurfaced material. Most useful for solo performers who want their delay to remember a melodic motif from earlier in the song and bring it back — accidentally or deliberately. A delay built for composition, not just decoration.
- 01reaches back two minutes into your past playing
- 02modify knob is destructive in the best way
- 03spread turns echoes into wash
- 04presets recall not just settings but the buffer
- 05rewards live looping more than studio overdubs
03—In the room
Where else this pedal lives.
- Andy Othling
- Trey Anastasio
- Sarah Lipstate
Strymon Volante if you want a more traditional multi-head delay without the memory layer.