Benson Amps Delay PT2399 Echo vs Walrus Audio Meraki
The Benson Amps Delay PT2399 Echo and the Walrus Audio Meraki 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.53% — 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
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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 Walrus Audio Meraki is a true stereo, all-analog bucket-brigade delay that lets players create syncopated rhythms with independent control over the left and right channels. Each channel has its own Feedback control, and a Mix knob blends wet and dry, while adjustable modulation adds chorus and vibrato movement to the repeats. A Tone control sets a tilt EQ in the delay lines, cutting lows and boosting highs clockwise or the reverse counter-clockwise to shape the warmth of the echoes. The pure analog signal path gives lush, warm, organic repeats with genuine BBD character, and the dual-channel design enables wide stereo and rhythmic ping-pong-style patterns. It suits players wanting warm analog stereo delay, from simple repeats to syncopated dual-channel rhythms and modulated ambient trails, in a richly voiced pedal.
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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
- Silent Stage
- Studio
- Worship