The Chase Bliss Habit is a Chase Bliss Audio delay pedal. Close alternatives include the Ibanez Layer Delayer and the JHS 3 Series Delay. It pairs well with the Fender Deluxe Reverb and the Fender Bassman Combo Amp.

Chase Bliss Habit

Chase Bliss Audio · pedal

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.

What stands out

  • “Sonically it ranges from conventional, musical echo to never-before-heard, glitchy loops and transitions”

    — from the listing

  • “On the downside, its compositional, scanning-based workflow is a significant departure from how most delay pedals work, so players expecting a straightforward slapback or ambient echo will need real practice time to get useful results”

    — from the reviews

  • “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”

    — from the listing

  • “In the chain it rewards being fed varied, dynamic playing since the Scan and Spread controls draw on whatever was recently recorded, and its Feed mode lets processed output be routed back into the input for increasingly dense, self-layering…”

    — from the community notes

  • “experimental”

    — from the listing

  • echo
  • ambient
  • delay
  • experimental
  • digital delay
  • layering
  • mix
  • musical

Good for

  • Live
  • Studio

Genres the Chase Bliss Habit is commonly used in

  • Experimental
  • Ambient
  • Lo Fi
    citedInferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag.
  • Post Rock
    citedInferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag.
  • Rockabilly
    citedInferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag.
  • Shoegaze
    citedInferred from shared tonal signals, not a stated genre tag.

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Questions people ask

What are good alternatives to the Chase Bliss Habit?+

The closest matches in character are the Ibanez Layer Delayer, the JHS 3 Series Delay, the Caroline Guitar Company Kilobyte 2000.

What pairs well with the Chase Bliss Habit?+

Strong matches from rig and tone-complementarity evidence: Fender Deluxe Reverb, Fender Bassman Combo Amp, Electro-Harmonix Small Stone — Fender Deluxe Reverb leans toward bright, and that's a real, usable character to pair with.

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