Chase Bliss x Empress

keir

Announcement tomorrow…….

Kultschar

Interesting - a delay in the CXM format?

Kultschar

Ah - standard pedal size

keir

Who knows what it could be! Will be interesting to see tomorrow. 

Got a little space on my board next to my warped vinyl that I shouldn’t really be looking to fill. 

DoctorX

Another glitchy delay thing:

https://www.chasebliss.com/reverse-mode-c

https://youtu.be/tK-_VC3L0dg

AntonHunter

Sounds cool, bit Count to 5 ish maybe?

keir

Only the knobs demo online so far and they are all too bleep bloop for me to base a decision on. 

Can’t fault Chase Bliss though, their output is immense and the new batch model makes sense. 

RaymondLin

Even the Chas Bliss User Group on FB are struggling to find a reason to get it, this is a niche on niche on niche pedal....

AntonHunter

I feel like, with a lot of these types of pedals, someone with better knowledge than me of MaxMSP or Ableton Live could probably get pretty close with their laptop. Or the Zoia/Beebo things. Although I do like the physical Chase Bliss interface.

stickyfiddle

I’d have loved an Echosystem with a better UI. 

That said I don’t think CB are the people to go to if “easy-to-use” is the main objective 

RaymondLin

stickyfiddle said:

I’d have loved an Echosystem with a better UI. 

That said I don’t think CB are the people to go to if “easy-to-use” is the main objective 

CBA are for tinkers, studio musicians and experimental sounds.  I love their pedals, sounds great, but i've moved away from diving into the depths of them for a while now.

I also think...the Boss pedal is pretty much end game for analogue delay, even though it's bigger.

Alun

Seems to have a fair bit of crossover with the Mood, but a little simpler due to the lack of clock and microlooper. Love the sounds from the demo but not sure if I'd pick one up yet. Will have a think.

Paul_C

I absolutely love these kinds of pedals and I wouldn't be surprised if I didn't order one before the deadline.

I decided yesterday that ten Telecasters is plenty, and while I'd like that new Boss GM800 a grand is more than I have to spend right now.

Having said that, I agree that it wouldn't be that hard to knock up something similar on a Beebo, and with two Moods, a Mood II, two Habits and a Thermae I probably have more pedals that do those sorts of sounds than is necessary anyway

Whitecat

I’m interested, but not sure if I’m $399 + shipping and taxes interested…

stickyfiddle

RaymondLin said:

stickyfiddle said:

I’d have loved an Echosystem with a better UI. 

That said I don’t think CB are the people to go to if “easy-to-use” is the main objective 

CBA are for tinkers, studio musicians and experimental sounds.  I love their pedals, sounds great, but i've moved away from diving into the depths of them for a while now.

I also think...the Boss pedal is pretty much end game for analogue delay, even though it's bigger.

Yeah I get it. I just like the sounds but don’t have anywhere near the time or energy to learn how to work the pedals, which is a shame. 

The Boss thing does look great. I’m still reasonably interested in the Suhr one as well but that still seems to be unobtainium after a couple of years.

Musicman20

Some cool sounds, but also some of the CB sounds are becoming a bit of an obvious CB sound....like 'plinky plonky modulated delay - played 3 notes on guitar -  pedal generated a million notes'....again not a bad thing but occasionally I find it  a bit 'cheesy'.

I love creating soundscapes and pure chaos, but I can see some of this getting lost on the mix. More of a studio tool?

My focus is the Boss DM-101 - seen the prices drop to £429 in some stores....once it gets near £400 in a sale i'll bite.

RaymondLin

Musicman20 said:

Some cool sounds, but also some of the CB sounds are becoming a bit of an obvious CB sound....like 'plinky plonky modulated delay - played 3 notes on guitar -  pedal generated a million notes'....again not a bad thing but occasionally I find it  a bit 'cheesy'.

I love creating soundscapes and pure chaos, but I can see some of this getting lost on the mix. More of a studio tool?

My focus is the Boss DM-101 - seen the prices drop to £429 in some stores....once it gets near £400 in a sale i'll bite.

Same...and i don't know how and when i am ever going to use that, or when i am learning a song, ever going to even need that plinky plonky sound.

The Boss pedal on sale....that would be the one.

GavRichList

See, I'm probably the exact target demographic for this pedal. I loved my empress Superdelay, and particularly reverse Mode C. It was a response / the only real comparable sound to mode 7 on the Boss PS-3....which is another desert island pedal of mine and an ever-present on my board, used somewhere on basically everything I've ever recorded. 

And there's the problem. I still have the Boss, and it's integral to a lot of tracks for both Rich List and Gallops live. I could probably programme a replicant patch on this at great difficulty and time expense, but that seems kind of counter-intuitive given the financial outlay required for this pedal. (you'd have to assume on £400 landed I'd guess?) Then there are tedious other considerations like it needing 270ma to run etc etc. I'd love one in principle and I reckon I could get a stack of use out of it if I had the time or finances to invest in it, but it's a big ol' jump on both counts. 

DoctorX

I don’t think the Knobs demo’s do the pedals any favours. He kinda makes everything sound the same.

Paul_C

GavRichList said:

See, I'm probably the exact target demographic for this pedal. I loved my empress Superdelay, and particularly reverse Mode C. It was a response / the only real comparable sound to mode 7 on the Boss PS-3....which is another desert island pedal of mine and an ever-present on my board, used somewhere on basically everything I've ever recorded. 

And there's the problem. I still have the Boss, and it's integral to a lot of tracks for both Rich List and Gallops live. I could probably programme a replicant patch on this at great difficulty and time expense, but that seems kind of counter-intuitive given the financial outlay required for this pedal. (you'd have to assume on £400 landed I'd guess?) Then there are tedious other considerations like it needing 270ma to run etc etc. I'd love one in principle and I reckon I could get a stack of use out of it if I had the time or finances to invest in it, but it's a big ol' jump on both counts. 

£380

GavRichList

@Paul_C that changes EVERYTHING