Chase Bliss Audio releases Habit echo collector pedal

May 1, 2023 · 3 sources

Chase Bliss Audio has released the Habit, a delay and looper pedal the company describes as a "freeform sampler and musical sketchpad"¹. Delicious Audio reported the pedal "is now officially out"²; Guitar World and Gearnews both published coverage of the unveiling on March 30, 2022¹³.

The Habit is a delay pedal built around an always-active three-minute memory. "Habit's secret is a digital tape reel that records every sound that enters the pedal. As long as Habit is on, it's recording," the company's notes state². Players can scan back through that history and replay moments from the past, alone or alongside the present². The recorded material can be edited into rhythmic patterns and fed back into the echo, which is shaped through two banks of modifiers². The pedal can also work as a simple echo with up to 60 seconds of delay time²¹.

Guitar World lists the top row of knobs as level, repeats and size, with a second row of Modify, Spread and Scan¹. Spread brings in a second echo that can be used at the same time, and Scan browses and selects echo segments from the memory¹. Two mini-toggles, labeled "123" and "A/ Off/ B," apply one of six modifiers stored in two banks of three settings, and a third toggle, In / Out / Feed, changes the signal routing¹. Holding the Tap/Hold footswitch engages the Scan function, and holding the Bypass footswitch engages a loop function¹. A Preset toggle between the footswitches has a live middle position and left and right positions that can each store a preset¹. MIDI, CV and expression connections are provided for external control¹³.

The sources disagree on the DIP switches: Delicious Audio describes "the signature 12 DIP switches on the back panel"², while Guitar World and Gearnews both cite 16 DIP switches on the top of the pedal¹³. Delicious Audio describes the pedal as appearing to be mono, with a Tap Tempo/MIDI out and an Exp/CV in². No US price or ship date is given in the coverage.