Benson Amps Delay PT2399 Echo vs Red Witch Binary Star
The Benson Amps Delay PT2399 Echo and the Red Witch Binary Star are both pedals sharing slapback, ambient, modulated.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.54% — moderately similar
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Ambient
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- slapback
- ambient
- modulated
- analog warmth
- dynamic
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.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 Red Witch Binary Star is a stereo analogue-voiced delay and time modulator from the New Zealand builder, combining elements of the company's earlier delays into what Red Witch call their best-sounding delay to date. Five dials, two toggles and a footswitch cover far more than straight echo: repeats run from clean, simple slapback through warm, darkening analogue-flavoured trails, and pushing the modulation section turns the delay line into chorus, vibrato, heavily pitch-shifted warble and shimmering, spacey textures. In stereo mode the wet and dry signals split to separate outputs for two amplifiers, where the atmospherics open into a wide, immersive field. Mono operation is also supported. Best suited to players after ambient, psychedelic and pitch-bent delay textures rather than a strictly clean digital repeat.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Indie
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Occasions this gear suits — judged per model, or derived from its wattage, connectivity and category.- Live
- Studio
- Live
- Studio