Chase Bliss Habit vs Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay
The Chase Bliss Habit and the Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay are both pedals sharing ambient, slapback. The Chase Bliss Habit leans pristine. The Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay leans analog warmth and warm.
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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.46% — somewhat different
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Genres both listings are associated with.- Ambient
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- ambient
- slapback
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$174.92via Reverb
The Chase Bliss Habit is a compositional delay pedal built around a continuously recording three minute memory buffer, described by its maker as a delay with a memory that stores everything played so it can be revisited later. A Scan knob navigates through that recorded history, a Spread control blends multiple points in time together, and two banks of modifiers reshape the echoes into tape delay emulation, dissolving repeats, and shrinking subdivisions. It offers up to sixty seconds of delay time, two preset slots, tap tempo, MIDI, CV, and expression control, plus a Feed mode that routes output back to input for layering processed sound on itself. Sonically it ranges from conventional, musical echo to never-before-heard, glitchy loops and transitions. It suits ambient, experimental, and compositional players who want to treat a delay line as raw material for building new phrases out of past playing rather than a simple slapback or repeat effect.
The Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay is a boutique delay designed to capture the warm, natural sound of classic 1960s tape echo units while using a hybrid digital delay line with a fully analog, unfiltered dry path. Its bandwidth roughly matches vintage tape echoes, and the repeats are carefully tuned around the first critical reflection and how each echo decays, giving an organic, vintage-oriented character that blends beautifully with an amp. Crucially, it is engineered to work well with distorted tones, an application where many delays fail, keeping the dry signal uncolored and clear. Compact with a simple control set, it suits players wanting musical, tape-flavored repeats for slapback, rhythmic delay, and ambient trails without tone loss, equally at home with clean and overdriven rigs.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- Experimental
- Blues Rock
- Rock
- Blues
- Indie
- pristine
- analog warmth
- warm
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Occasions this gear suits — judged per model, or derived from its wattage, connectivity and category.- Live
- Studio
- Live
- Studio