Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Chase bliss - What They Never Told You

“They’ve revived B.B. King’s first-ever guitar and made it $349. I know what my next acoustic is going to be”: All the new guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including Chase Bliss’ “most foolish” pedal yet

The rebirth of B.B. King's first acoustic, a leading Dumble clone in plugin form, another spin-off of the famed Big Muff – all that and more in this week's round-up

“One of my favorite signature guitars of all time just got a standard run release, and Gretsch has not disappointed”: All the new guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including a pedal that will solve all your Mk.gee tone troubles

“One of my favorite signature guitars of all time just got a standard run release, and Gretsch has not disappointed”: All the new guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including a pedal that will solve all your Mk.gee tone troubles

Mk.gee's tone in a box? Noel Gallagher's mystery Oasis reunion Les Paul? Fender's answer to its boutique rivals? All that and more dropped this week...

“Our first true multi-effect, a little museum of the rare and strange for you to wander around”: Chase Bliss invites adventurous players to rummage around the Lost + Found – 12 mixable modes, from Slow-Verb shoegaze to Gen Lite lo-fi textures

“Our first true multi-effect, a little museum of the rare and strange for you to wander around”: Chase Bliss invites adventurous players to rummage around the Lost + Found – 12 mixable modes, from Slow-Verb shoegaze to Gen Lite lo-fi textures

Lost + Found is a typically inventive design from Chase Bliss that will present its fair share of surprises – and a bewildering array of options for transforming your tone, and presets to save 'em!

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

inkl

“I became obsessed with the idea and decided to reach out. I framed it like: ‘Would you be open to this if I worked on a prototype?’” How two of the pedal world’s most groundbreaking firms joined forces to make the ultimate overdrive

Combining two of the finest circuits in the game on one feature-packed gain pedal, the Brothers AM is the one overdrive to rule them all. Analog Man’s Mike Piera and Chase Bliss’ Joel Korte explain how it came to be

“Instead of labouring over a perfect recreation, we decided to make an expanded counterpart”: Chase Bliss teams up with Mike Piera for Analog Man collab based on the legendary King Of Tone

Years in the making, Brothers AM applies Chase Bliss’s expansive digital controls and a cornucopia of dip-switches to an overdrive classic – and it has a Beano Boost mode

"It's a dream combination": Chompi Club, maker of the viral Chompi sampler, teams up with Chase Bliss

Two makers of cute and colourful gear unite as Chompi Club merges with the effects pedal manufacturer behind Mood, Blooper and Habit

“Clean explores the wild side of compression and brings the interactivity of distortion circuits to a clean signal”: Chase Bliss unveils Clean, a studio-quality analogue compressor with a “fun” twist

Make that many, many twists… This being a Chase Bliss design, Clean presents stereo compression like never before

inkl

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

“The idea behind this pedal is to make clean guitar as fun as overdriven guitar”: Chase Bliss is on a mission to make you rethink clean guitar tones with the “very fun” Clean compressor

“The idea behind this pedal is to make clean guitar as fun as overdriven guitar”: Chase Bliss is on a mission to make you rethink clean guitar tones with the “very fun” Clean compressor

The pedal “swells, sags, smooths, pans, and filters”, promising to bring your clean tone to life like never before

“There’s so much we are working on, I'd rather keep my eyes forward. We’ll ultimately emerge stronger”: Why Chase Bliss has been forced to discontinue 5 of its finest pedals – and what it means for the firm's future

“There’s so much we are working on, I'd rather keep my eyes forward. We’ll ultimately emerge stronger”: Why Chase Bliss has been forced to discontinue 5 of its finest pedals – and what it means for the firm's future

The forward-thinking effects specialist ran afoul of UK and EU legislation by using one particular component in five of its most popular pedals

“It's an honor to do this”: Billy Strings loved Chase Bliss’ discontinued Wombtone so much he started collecting them – now he’s been honored with his very own signature version

“It's an honor to do this”: Billy Strings loved Chase Bliss’ discontinued Wombtone so much he started collecting them – now he’s been honored with his very own signature version

The cult classic pedal finally returns in the form of a Strings signature stompbox, with expression pedal compatibility and a host of new improvements

Superbooth 24: “Simply plug in and start doing what you do” - Chase Bliss’s Onward is a dynamic sampler pedal that responds to your playing

Superbooth 24: “Simply plug in and start doing what you do” - Chase Bliss’s Onward is a dynamic sampler pedal that responds to your playing

A forward-thinking creative partner that can be smooth, glitchy or a bit of both

“An audio-controlled sampler that tracks your playing to create immersive musical landscapes”: Chase Bliss’ Onward sampler pedal is glitching and freezing heaven for guitarists of all styles

“An audio-controlled sampler that tracks your playing to create immersive musical landscapes”: Chase Bliss’ Onward sampler pedal is glitching and freezing heaven for guitarists of all styles

A deceptively small little stompbox, the Onward is the laden with synth sorcery

Chase Bliss and Bilt Guitars team up for a one-off custom electric with an onboard Habit delay/echo circuit, integrated amp and speaker – and they are giving it away!

Chase Bliss and Bilt Guitars team up for a one-off custom electric with an onboard Habit delay/echo circuit, integrated amp and speaker – and they are giving it away!

The Habit guitar is being raffled to support Friends Who Stutter and might be the coolest offset you'll hear this or any other year. Watch Chase Bliss founder Joel Korte demo its sounds

“An all-in-one solution to crafting your core tone”: The Chase Bliss Condor HiFi is the next generation of its “weird little EQ pedal” that it hopes you'll never want to turn off

“An all-in-one solution to crafting your core tone”: The Chase Bliss Condor HiFi is the next generation of its “weird little EQ pedal” that it hopes you'll never want to turn off

It's a pedal that defies categorization, but the Condor HiFi aims to be your next always-on pedal by mixing EQ, overdrive, and filter quirks for comprehensive tone-shaping – the new version has undergone two major changes, and existing Condor owners can upgrade their units for just $49

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

“Part EQ, part filter, and part overdrive, it’s all there… a 100% analogue, all-in-one solution to crafting your core tone”: Chase Bliss’s Condor HiFi takes flight – is this your next always-on tone-shaper?

Typical of Chase Bliss, the Condor HiFi resists categorisation, but is described as part EQ, part drive, part filter, and it will make your guitar – your everything – sound better

Chase Bliss teams up with Goodhertz for the Lossy, a pedal to add “all the nasty and beautiful mistakes of heavily deconstructed digital audio” to your guitar tone

The plugin much-loved by lo-fi texturalists has been reworked and expanded and placed in a pedal, and there are some truly fresh sounds to be had, spaced out, weird and dreamy

Chase Bliss teams up with Empress Effects for the Reverse Mode C – a trippy multi-directional delay pedal with modulation

This weird and wonderful collab between the pedalboard superpowers was inspired by the Empress Superdelay and is available to order up until 31 August 2023, after which it's gone

1

People

King Charles III

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

inkl

Organisations

Universal Audio

Sterling By Music Man

inkl

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Places

380,401 stories

140,355 stories

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.

Download on the AppStore

Get it on Google Play