![]() I'm a big fan of Joel Korte, and pretty much like all of his pedals, although the delay ones make the least amount of sense for my stereo rig. It is of course not for everyone, and requires some due diligence and a patient approach - but as with all Chase Bliss pedals can be extremely rewarding if you are prepared to give it the right amount of time. The Thermae is the only one here that gives me something genuinely different. This is obviously the most leftfield choice here, but actually also the only one that properly makes sense for me really as I already have an amazing Empress EchoSystem Delay Workstation that handles every single delay I would ever want. But I thought if you're going to go for a Chase Bliss style analog delay - you may as well go with the pitch-shifting-delay-wonder that is the Thermae. I originally had the Tonal Recall RKM on this slot - which has recently come down in price a tiny touch. ![]() Pedals are pictured / listed alphabetically by brand as always. Recalling how much I love my Stone Deaf Tremotron, I would probably go for the Syncopy as being the best mix of features for the price. I’m a sucker for Chase Bliss Audio - so if money was no object then I would no doubt go for that, the Panther Cub’s lack of Modulation Depth may count against it, so beside the Thermae I would take my pick from the remaining three which all offer something distinct and individual. I personally don’t have a particular need for one of these specific analog delays, but if I were looking to get one - I would want tap-tempo, and therefore I would consider the Art Van Delay, Thermae, Panther Cub V2, Fluid Time MKII and Syncopy. The Thermae departs a little from the norm by being a Pitch-Shifting Delay - with lots of clever wobbly modulation to add to its more standard tap-tempo delay - It is also considerably the most expensive on offer here. I’ve sort of cheekily included the Chase Bliss Audio Thermae here in place of its slightly plainer Tonal Recall RKM brother. I think what you get here depends on how deep your wallet is, and how ’talented’ or feature-rich you want your delay to be - a lot of people seem to be just looking for something basic - while I find tap-tempo is kind of essential for these type of pedals. I also watched the That Pedal Show review of the recent JHS Panther Cub V2 - where they were a touch disappointed by the lack of a Modulation Depth Control - which the Art Van Delay and Sycnopy for instance do have. Players who want something a touch more than those two might look to the new Art Van Delay, but it’s a good twice the price - so there won’t be quite as many takers. I think the perennial big-sellers here are the Boss DM-2w and MXR Carbon Copy, and based on the price-points I don’t see that changing any day soon. There’s obviously still a big demand for these, while I could not be without my Empress EchoSystem Delay Workstation. I see these as roughly fitting into 3 sub-categories - basic, tap-tempo and feature rich - with the Art Van Delay, Thermae, Fluid Time MKII and Syncopy all offering quite a bit more than the basic delay + modulation. Typically each chip can carry approximately 300ms of time delay - these are quite pricey chips, and therefore the price is in direct correlation with the number of chips used typically - I’ve included the Millisecond delay time after the pricing of each. In fact I’ve made a slight concession towards the Stone Deaf Syncopy which is slightly over-sized - or the same size as its tremendous Tremotron Tremolo sibling which I already have - and which sits quite nicely in amongst the other compacts - it is a little larger in all dimensions but not uncomfortably so.Īll these pedals are of the Bucket Brigade Devices chip type and depending on how many of those chips they use - range from capabilities of longest delay time being 300ms (Way Huge Smalls Aqua-Puss) to longest delay time of 1200ms (Bondi Effects Art Van Delay). ![]() When I last featured 12 of the Best Analog Delays - I covered pedals of all sizes - while here I’m just focusing on the compact enclosure ones. There have been a number of new Analog Delay Pedals released this year and with the most recent release of the Bondi Effects Art Van Delay - I thought it opportune to do a round-up.
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