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11. November 2025

LYRA

Chase Bliss and the CHOMPI Saga: From Playful Vision to Community Creation

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Chase Bliss and the CHOMPI Saga: From Playful Vision to Community Creation

CHOMPI isn’t just another quirky instrument—it’s a testament to the power of joyful design and heartfelt collaboration. In this official Chase Bliss video, the team dives deep into the story behind CHOMPI, a sample-munching device crafted to bridge the gap between professional musicians and absolute beginners. The narrative unfolds with a blend of personal anecdotes, design philosophy, and a behind-the-scenes look at the emotional and technical journey that brought CHOMPI to life. For those interested in how digital sampling tools can become conduits for community, creativity, and connection, this is a revealing watch.

23. October 2025

MILES

Chase Bliss Conjures Sonic Horror: A Patch-Oriented Guide to Being Scary

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Chase Bliss Conjures Sonic Horror: A Patch-Oriented Guide to Being Scary

Chase Bliss, the Minnesota pedal wizards, don their vampire capes to walk us through the art of crafting scary sounds with guitars, bass, and drums. In their characteristically playful style, they demonstrate how stacking loops, detuned orchestrations, and a handful of their signature pedals—Lossy, Dark World, Mood, and more—can transform everyday instruments into haunted soundscapes. This video is less about technical manuals and more about creative patching, layering, and the subtle art of making your audience shiver. If you’re after eerie textures and cyclic atmospheres, this is a masterclass in pedalboard necromancy.

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23. April 2025

MILES

Chase Bliss and Analog Man’s Brothers AM: King of Tone, Reinvented for the Patch Generation

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Chase Bliss and Analog Man’s Brothers AM: King of Tone, Reinvented for the Patch Generation

Chase Bliss, renowned for their fusion of analog warmth and digital wizardry, have teamed up with Analog Man to deliver Brothers AM—a pedal that sets out to bottle the magic of the King of Tone, but with a modern twist. In this technical demo, the company’s founder walks us through the design’s five-year gestation, its dual-channel architecture, and the clever blend of classic circuitry with digital control. Expect a deep dive into versatile drive modes, hands-on presence shaping, and a host of tweakable options that invite sonic exploration. For anyone obsessed with signal flow and tone sculpting, this is a

5. November 2024

MILES

Chase Bliss Clean: Analogue Compression with a Twist of Curiosity

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Chase Bliss Clean: Analogue Compression with a Twist of Curiosity

Chase Bliss, the Minnesota pedal wizards, have a knack for taking classic effects and nudging them into uncharted territory. Their latest offering, Clean, is a stereo analogue two-stage compressor that’s anything but pedestrian. In this detailed video manual, Chase Bliss walks through Clean’s dynamic features, from nuanced compression and EQ sculpting to hidden dip switch options and the delightfully unpredictable Dusty mode. For anyone who thinks compression is just about squashing peaks, Clean proves there’s a whole world of interactive, patchable sound design lurking beneath the surface.

28. August 2024

MILES

Chase Bliss Billy Strings Wombtone: Envelope Control in the Lab

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Chase Bliss Billy Strings Wombtone: Envelope Control in the Lab

Chase Bliss, the Minnesota pedal wizards, return with the Billy Strings Wombtone—a signature reissue that puts envelope control front and centre. In this technical demo, founder Joel Korte walks through the pedal’s new dynamic features, showing how your playing intensity can sculpt phasing, depth, and more in real time. The video is less about marketing gloss and more about hands-on patching, with a focus on how the envelope generator can be assigned to multiple parameters for expressive, evolving textures. For those who like their modulation reactive and their pedalboards exploratory, this is a deep dive into what happens when you