The Chase Bliss Thermae is a Chase Bliss Audio delay pedal. Close alternatives include the Rainger FX Drone Ranger Digital Delay and the JHS 3 Series Delay. It pairs well with the Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp and the Matchless DC-30.

Chase Bliss Thermae

Chase Bliss Audio · pedal

Chase Bliss Thermae is an analog delay pedal built around four reissued MN3005 bucket-brigade chips that can be sequenced and modulated to generate melodies, reveal hidden textures, and push delay times out to 32 seconds. Short, simple echoes stay warmly musical, while longer echoes and high feedback settings devolve into dark, drenched-in-wobble analog chaos more felt than heard, aided by a low-pass filter that can turn feedback into a drone. It is aimed at experimental and ambient guitarists and sound designers who want an analog delay capable of far more than repeats, at the cost of a steeper learning curve than most delay pedals. Its bucket-brigade heritage gives every echo a woolier, warmer decay than digital delays typically produce.

What stands out

  • “Its standout strength is the sheer sonic range packed into an analog delay format, from crisp echoes to full-on noise”

    — from the community notes

  • “The community treats Thermae , valued for dark, wobbly, bucket-brigade-driven echoes that can spiral from clean repeats into drone-like noise”

    — from the community notes

  • “Reviewers describe Thermae's tone as dark and noisy in the best sense, calling the short-echo settings warmly musical while longer, high-feedback settings collapse into a compelling slurry of lo-fi noise and analog chaos”

    — from the reviews

  • “it is aimed at experimental and ambient guitarists and sound designers who want an analog delay capable of far more than repeats”

    — from the listing

  • “Its bucket-brigade heritage gives every echo a woolier, warmer decay than digital delays typically produce”

    — from the listing

  • echo
  • drone
  • dark
  • noise
  • ambient
  • experimental
  • analog delay
  • delay

Good for

  • Live
  • Studio

Genres the Chase Bliss Thermae is commonly used in

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

Amps that pair well with the Chase Bliss Thermae

Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp

Vox

28% match
$799via Reverb

fills a frequency gapFills in a frequency range the other side doesn't cover, instead of piling more onto what's already there. (dark → bright)

Where this leans dark, Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp answers back bright

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Matchless DC-30

Matchless

26% match
$4756via Reverb

fills a frequency gapFills in a frequency range the other side doesn't cover, instead of piling more onto what's already there. (dark → glassy)

Matchless DC-30 leans glassy right where the dark tone needs it

Comes earlier in the signal chain

1964 Vox AC30

Vox

tonal match

Comes earlier in the signal chain

1964 Vox AC30 leans glassy right where the dark tone needs it

Vox AC30CH Custom 30W Head

Vox

tonal match

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Vox AC30CH Custom 30W Head leans bright right where the dark tone needs it

Ceriatone Dizzy 30

Ceriatone

tonal match

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Ceriatone Dizzy 30's bright balances out the dark tone

Vox MSB25 Mini SuperBeetle

Vox

tonal match
$378.33via Reverb

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Where this leans dark, Vox MSB25 Mini SuperBeetle answers back glassy

Laney Richter

Laney

tonal match

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Run Laney Richter after it and the dark edge settles into something more bright

Mesa Boogie Subway D-350

Mesa Boogie

tonal match
$799via Reverb

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Mesa Boogie Subway D-350 leans bright right where the dark tone needs it

Pedals that stack with the Chase Bliss Thermae

Catalinbread Galileo

Catalinbread

23% match

fills a frequency gapFills in a frequency range the other side doesn't cover, instead of piling more onto what's already there. (dark → bright)

Catalinbread Galileo leans bright right where the dark tone needs it

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Tech 21 SansAmp

Tech 21

21% match

fills a frequency gapFills in a frequency range the other side doesn't cover, instead of piling more onto what's already there. (dark → bright)

Where this leans dark, Tech 21 SansAmp answers back bright

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Wampler Latitude Deluxe Tremolo

Wampler

17% match
$169.95via Reverb

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Wampler Latitude Deluxe Tremolo's glassy voice goes after Chase Bliss Thermae in the signal chain — it's not there to compete with Chase Bliss Thermae's own dark character

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Walrus Audio Lillian

Walrus Audio

16% match
$213via Reverb

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Keep Chase Bliss Thermae's dark voice out front: Walrus Audio Lillian goes after Chase Bliss Thermae in the signal chain so its bright voice doesn't muddy it

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Tech 21 SansAmp Oxford

Tech 21

tonal match
$246.13via Reverb

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Tech 21 SansAmp Oxford's bright balances out the dark tone

Aguilar DB 925

Aguilar

tonal match
$139via Reverb

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Run Aguilar DB 925 after it and the dark edge settles into something more bright

Tech 21 SansAmp Character Plus Mop Top Liverpool

Tech 21

tonal match
$180.26via Reverb

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Run Tech 21 SansAmp Character Plus Mop Top Liverpool after it and the dark edge settles into something more bright

EarthQuaker Devices White Light V2

EarthQuaker Devices

tonal match
$145.29via Reverb

Comes earlier in the signal chain

EarthQuaker Devices White Light V2's glassy balances out the dark tone

Alternativessee all similar tone character →

Rainger FX Drone Ranger Digital Delay

Rainger Fx

66% similarity
$299via Reverb

Shared character: noise

JHS 3 Series Delay

JHS Pedals

64% similarity
$99via Reverb

Shared character: analog delay, filter, digital

MXR Analog Delay

MXR

64% similarity

Shared character: noise, analog delay, dark

Keeley Eccos Tape Flanged Delay

Keeley

59% similarity
$199via Reverb

Shared character: analog delay, dark, delay

JHS 3 Series Oil Can Delay

JHS Pedals

58% similarity
$99via Reverb

Shared character: analog delay, digital, delay

Malekko Electro-Harmonix Memory Toy Analog Delay

Electro-Harmonix

58% similarity

Shared character: analog delay, dark, delay

Dunlop MXR M299 Carbon Copy Mini

Dunlop

58% similarity
$123.97via Reverb

Shared character: analog delay, dark, digital

Death By Audio Echo Master Mic Stand Clip v3

Death By Audio

57% similarity
$60via Reverb

Shared character: noise, delay, ambient

Eventide Rose Modulated Digital Delay

Eventide

57% similarity
$350via Reverb

Shared character: analog delay, dark, filter

Strymon El Capistan

Strymon

57% similarity
$379via Reverb

Shared character: dark, delay, ambient

Keeley Magnetic Echo

Keeley

57% similarity
$127.49via Reverb

Shared character: dark, delay, ambient

Beetronics BeeBeeDee Analog Delay

Beetronics

57% similarity
$299via Reverb

Shared character: analog delay, dark, filter

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Questions people ask

What are good alternatives to the Chase Bliss Thermae?+

The closest matches in character are the Rainger FX Drone Ranger Digital Delay, the JHS 3 Series Delay, the MXR Analog Delay.

What pairs well with the Chase Bliss Thermae?+

Strong matches from rig and tone-complementarity evidence: Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp, Matchless DC-30, 1964 Vox AC30 — Where this leans dark, Vox AC30 Guitar Combo Amp answers back bright.

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