Chase Bliss has released the Habit delay guitar pedal. It has the same form factor as their two previous pedals, Blooper and Mood, and direct linage to both of these popular products. However, with Blooper being loop-based and Mood being more reverb/ambience-based, Habit is all about delay, or as Chase puts it, an “echo collector.”
“We’re calling Habit a musical sketchpad, and it’s probably the best image to start wrapping your head around it. It lets you capture that sensation of absently doodling in a notebook and watching an image emerge. It’s a delay that lets you break away from the present moment, and create echoes of the past instead. Or both at once. It does this by recording every sound that goes into the pedal, so you can revisit them later. You can collect sounds you made two minutes ago and turn them into loops, or harmonize along with old playing, or build impossible echo patterns.”
Chase also took the opportunity to showcase their new logo and branding with the debut of Habit. It is reflected in a new website and an “alphabet soup” logo.
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Chase Bliss goes on to describe Habit as a delay with a memory. The mono pedal stores everything you play for later, so you can revisit and reuse sounds from the past. With a delay length of up to three minutes, it means that you can go back to the future to revisit riffs you played in the past.
Habit’s mojo is a digital tape reel that continuously records every sound that enters the pedal. At any moment, you can scan back into this history and play moments from the past – instead of, or alongside the present. This architecture makes a pile of interesting things possible, including never-before-heard delays, strange loops and transitions, and even entire songs captured right inside the pedal.
Chase Bliss Habit Specs:
» Mono I/O
» Presets (2)
» Internal modulation (Ramping)
» MIDI (PC, CC and Clock)
» CV control
» Expression control
» External tap
» Tap tempo
» Analog dry thru
» Buffered bypass
» 9VDC Center Negative ~150 mA
Habit’s compositional side introduces a new kind of workflow, like a free-form sampler. You can build loops by navigating the memory, picking out and combining various moments from the past. Or set the memory to overdub so that long-form songs emerge just by playing into it.
You can even send the output audio right back into the input in Feed mode to record your live effects processing and knob changes to memory. Habit features advanced connectivity and customization options including MIDI, CV and Expression control, sync, presets, and internal modulation of any or all its knobs.
For electronic music, clearly we’re disappointed that Chase Bliss decided to make the Habit mono, especially with all the love the Mood and Blooper has received in the synth community. However, it’s not that surprising, considering they followed the same form-factor as the aforementioned pedals.
We’d love to see an honest evaluation of the Habit, since most of the Chase Bliss online and video reviews are essentially product placements. A full breakdown is essential for prospective buyers to make an educated decision, especially if they’re thinking of plunking down $400.
