Benson Amps Delay PT2399 Echo vs Strymon Olivera Vintage Oil Can Echo
The Benson Amps Delay PT2399 Echo and the Strymon Olivera Vintage Oil Can Echo are both pedals sharing ambient, modulated, dynamic. The Benson Amps Delay PT2399 Echo leans slapback and analog warmth. The Strymon Olivera Vintage Oil Can Echo leans dark.
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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.45% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Indie
- Ambient
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- ambient
- modulated
- dynamic
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$259via Reverb
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 Strymon Olivera is a vintage oil can echo delay that recreates the rare, enigmatic oil can echo effects first made by Tel-Ray in 1959, which produced repeats by writing a static charge to a rotating oil-filled disk. It captures the dark, syrupy, murky repeats and organic, uneven modulation unique to oil can machines, with a distinctive push-and-pull cadence that you feel as you play. Controls adjust delay time, mix, modulation rate and intensity, and regeneration to tailor the echo's lo-fi, rhythmic character, and features like MIDI, delay spillover, stereo, and selectable bypass modes make it gig-ready. It suits players chasing nostalgic, mechanical-yet-organic vintage echo textures for ambient, surf, indie, and experimental tones, offering a sound impossible to replicate with conventional tape or digital delays.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Experimental
- slapback
- analog warmth
- dark
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Occasions this gear suits — judged per model, or derived from its wattage, connectivity and category.- Live
- Studio
- Live
- Studio
- Worship