Benson Amps Delay PT2399 Echo vs JAM Pedals Delay Llama Mk.3

The Benson Amps Delay PT2399 Echo and the JAM Pedals Delay Llama Mk.3 are both pedals sharing slapback, ambient, analog warmth. The Benson Amps Delay PT2399 Echo leans modulated. The JAM Pedals Delay Llama Mk.3 leans warm.

Similarity
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51% — moderately similar

Shared genres
citedGenres both listings are associated with.
  • Indie
  • Ambient
Shared tone character
citedDerived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.
  • slapback
  • ambient
  • analog warmth
  • tight
  • dynamic
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Description

The Benson Amps Delay is a boutique analog voiced echo built around the PT2399 chip but carefully conditioned to sound warmer and more musical than typical PT2399 designs. Delay times span roughly 30 milliseconds to over 1.2 seconds, covering everything from tight slapback and chorus like doubling to long, decaying repeats. Drawing on Benson's background servicing tape and bucket brigade echoes, it produces ethereal, slightly unpredictable repeats that darken and degrade as they fade. A flexible LFO with sine, square and random waveforms adds chorus, vibrato and seasick warble or flutter to the repeats. It suits ambient, indie, psychedelic and roots players who want vintage tape style echo with modern reliability and creative modulation.

The JAM Pedals Delay Llama Mk. III is a hand-built analog bucket-brigade delay using faithful reproductions of the beloved Panasonic MN3205 BBD chips. It delivers a juicy, characterful analog echo inspired by vintage tape units, warm and organic yet a touch brighter than many analog delays so repeats stay present in a mix before decaying naturally. The Mk III keeps the original analog engine while adding a tap-tempo footswitch, a subdivision switch and a hold function for self-oscillating runaway textures. It suits everything from subtle slapback and ambient swells to wild oscillating soundscapes, and is widely praised as one of the best-sounding analog delays available.

Tonal lean
  • modulated
  • warm
Good for
citedOccasions this gear suits — judged per model, or derived from its wattage, connectivity and category.
  • Live
  • Studio
  • Live
  • Studio
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