Chase Bliss Habit

The deepest delay you'll ever play. That takes a session or two to say with confidence. Welcome back to Edge of Breakup.

In this episode the Chase Bliss Habit takes center stage in a deep extended session — not a features walkthrough, but a composition built in real time by feeding the pedal, listening to what it gives back, and adjusting. This is how Habit is meant to be played.

At its core, Habit is a delay pedal. Level, Repeats, and Size controls, delay time from 50ms to 60 seconds, tap tempo, analog dry-through. All familiar. But Habit is also always recording — maintaining a rolling three-minute buffer of everything that passes through it. At any moment, you can reach back into that buffer and pull moments from the past back into your present, alongside or instead of what you're currently playing.

Three controls shape that interaction. Scan browses the memory — in Auto mode the pedal wanders through its history on its own, surfacing fragments at a frequency you control; in Manual mode the Scan knob becomes a radio dial sweeping through the last three minutes of your playing. Spread adds a second simultaneous echo, creating multi-tap textures and the disorienting sensation of two moments from different times playing in parallel. Modify shapes the echo itself — through two banks of three modifiers each.

Bank A: Modifier A1 (Stepped Speed — pitch-based delay with fifths and octaves), A2 (Stability — detuned tape delay character), A3 (Trimmer — slices audio off the start or end of a note for stutter and edit effects). Bank B: B1 (Smooth Speed — gradual pitch change), B2 (Filter — multimode filter applied to the echo), B3 (Dropper — dissolving echoes that shrink away). Two banks of 8 DIP switches on the top panel modify how Habit scans, collects, and processes its memory — sixteen more variables to explore.

This is Habit's description of itself: "Never-before-heard delays, bizarre loops and transitions, and even entire songs captured right inside the pedal." That's exactly what this session explores.

It took two full sessions before I felt like I was riding Habit rather than being bucked off. The third session is where this video was made.

🎛️ Chase Bliss Habit: https://www.chasebliss.com/habit

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Note: This video is a rare exception to my standard recording setup — audio is captured direct rather than mic'd cab. All other Edge of Breakup videos feature 4 mics on a real cab with no IR or virtual amp sounds.