Fish Circuits Echo Limiteur

The Fish Circuits Echo Limiteur is a delay pedal that takes an unusual route: instead of being purely analog or purely digital, it combines both. Delicious Audio's Paolo De Gregorio describes it as "a distinctive hybrid delay that merges analog warmth (via an MN3005 chip) with digital extension (PT2399)"¹. The MN3005 is a bucket-brigade chip, the kind found in classic analog delays, while the PT2399 is a digital delay chip commonly used to stretch delay times further than analog circuitry alone allows.

How it sounds and how long it goes

The hybrid design lets the pedal reach delay times up to 1750ms¹, far past the short maximum of a conventional analog bucket-brigade delay. Premier Guitar's editors describe "two modes that blend a warm analog echo with the extended range of a digital PT2399 chip"².

Deliberately, the pedal does not stay pristine as the time knob climbs. As De Gregorio puts it¹:

He characterizes the character at long settings as evoking "tape echo meets low-fi radio"¹. In other words, short repeats stay cleaner while maximum delay times bring increasing grit and degradation, which some players will treat as a feature rather than a flaw.

The limiter section

The pedal's name refers to a built-in limiter with its own controls: "Limit" sets the limiter's sensitivity and "Rel" sets its release times¹. That gives the player control over how the limiter reacts to the signal feeding the delay, shaping the pedal's response beyond the usual delay time and repeats controls.

Who makes it and where

Fish Circuits builds the Echo Limiteur by hand in Montreal. The company's own page, quoted by Delicious Audio, calls it "Hand-made in Montreal (the lovely city we call home)"¹.

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