Chase Bliss Audio

Armed with a comically large Habit Echo Collector Delay pedal, the Director of Product Development for Chase Bliss Audio looks to the future.

The extremely popular VHS tone degradation pedal is back, and in stereo this time.

“I couldn’t see any other way to go forward without raising our prices,” Joel Korte

Chase Bliss specialises in compact pedals with lots of knobs and switches, and this anarchic digital delay is its most ambitious sound manipulator yet.

“It stores everything you play for later, so you can revisit and reuse sounds from the past”

The brand is due to announce later this week its first new pedals since 2020.

The boutique pedal company’s last main release was towards the end 2020.

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