Chase Bliss Preamp MKII Demo and Review

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Hey, I’m Emily from get offset. And I’m here today to talk about the chase bliss, automaton automaton, automaton, pramp MKII. It’s the famous pedal with flying faders I’ve as I think a lot of people in music are obsessed with flying faders since I was a little kid and saw them in, like. Movies and music videos.

[00:00:30] I think that just that magic never stops being like exciting. So this is a collaboration with Benson amps, and this is the first Benson and pedal their preamp based on their, uh, I think it’s from Chimera Kimora, Chimera. Mmm. And I asked him a demo of that. Uh, on the channel and I’ve used it a couple of videos.

[00:00:59] It’s a really lovely preamp that can do low and high gain really, really well. I’m very, very sought after kind of pedal and very exciting. It comes into lots of different fun designs. My personal favorite is the one they have is exclusive with thunder road guitars. That’s based on the very famous carpet at the Portland airport, but I digress.

[00:01:22] This is really kind of a feat of modern engineering. It has, it’s a dirt pedal with, uh, lots of games, uh, lots of, uh, settings to go through and like any chase bliss, pedal it’s. Yeah. It’s like learning a new language in a way. To, to figure out what, what you’re working with and how, what, what different things do, uh, I had this pedal for a couple of days then playing it really I’m impressed so far.

[00:01:50] And the more you play it, the more you’re like, okay, I understand how to get these sounds out of them. So I’m going to do is I’m going to walk you through the settings, uh, maybe play through the presets. There are there’s room for 30 presets on board and three separate banks. So you hold down this. Too new from one bank to the next.

[00:02:13] So you saw the move there, if the camera’s on which it is. And, uh, so let me just talk about the things let’s just talk about the things this, as you can see as the volume

[00:02:34] And, uh, even with just volume as a boost, it’s driving my shrine and radium, uh, which is on the round C setting, no gain just completely clean, as clean as that pedal will get. So

[00:02:54] next we have trouble and we have base. So it’s my understanding and I could be wrong. Uh, when they’re the middle here, this is basically like the mid level. And then you cut or you boost those frequencies. So

[00:03:31] And then you have the gain and that’s, this is gain.

[00:04:00] Yeah. And then you have these kind of buttons. They’re called our arcade style buttons here. Understandably. Um, this one, this first one is it’s for helpless live stuff. Um, there’s already videos about how you use this, but basically when it’s blue and you hit the preset switch, it’ll go straight to the zero and Emma’s at five.

[00:04:25] We’ll go back to five. It’s probably really helpful if you’re jumping between a few different presets sounds and the single song. Um, but I’m not gonna really screw around with it too much. The next one is the myths and you saw, I didn’t mess with the myths at all. And it’s because you have to turn on the mids to get to use them.

[00:04:45] The original Benson preamp pedal doesn’t even feature mids. It just has a volume high-low will treble, bass and gain. Uh, so you turn this setting on if you want the mids and those are gonna happen either before or after the Benson preempt. So blue is before the Prius.

[00:05:21] again, middle is. Not more, not less, it’s just kind of your EKU equilibrium. Um, and then you can control the frequency of the nodes up is I think 4,000 Hertz and down is one 50. So let’s just go ahead and boost the mids and kind of slide it along.

[00:06:12] neat. Uh, and then. Let’s listen to it after

[00:07:02] um, sometimes you can really tell the difference between putting the notes before or after via the preamp. And sometimes you can’t. Uh, one of the well are things about this puddle is how much things, these like secret sauce, kind of things, sort of interact with each other. Speaking of mids, the next one controls the, uh, I think that I could call the parametric curve.

[00:07:29] It’s been a really long time since I’ve been taking recording technology, but it basically sets this frequency range of the mids that you’re cutting or boosting to either kind of like a wide. A narrow or very narrow, uh, parametric curve, a curve, which I learned about at the Mike curb. You said business school at Belmont university.

[00:07:51] Um, so I really liked playing with this. I think the more natural sounds are with the wider curve for sure. And that’s the default and then lets a narrow them kind of see how that sounds. So this is sort of the middle option for that EQ curve. So we’ll start with a big boost.

[00:08:12] Let me turn it on the minutes also.

[00:08:27] So this is the wider one again.

[00:08:43] and you can go narrow or still.

[00:09:03] I saw somebody on Reddit do this thing where they were, um, They had like a mini controller set up and I was making all these faders kind of go up and down and I’m like, that would be really, really fun, especially with, uh, the, the mids on either pre or post with that very narrow, uh, parametric curve.

[00:09:33] Um, so the next one here is these are optional flipping diodes, either silicone or germanium.

[00:10:12] and then last, but certainly not least funds. You have a, an open funds, open bus in blue and then a gate in fuzz in right.

[00:11:10] Yeah, so a lot of fun stuff, a lot of stuff to think about. Um, it comes with 10 presets already loaded in, which are all really fun. So let’s get to those.

[00:11:25] That’s really cool.

[00:11:53] Let’s try this with different clipping diodes.

[00:12:12] Uh,

[00:13:57] Let’s try. This was the mids post now.

[00:14:41] Cause it’s mostly in the middle there. I let’s reduce that pair of that curve.

[00:15:42] you can hear what a difference it can make putting the mids before or after the free app.

[00:15:52] That was a four. And we’re gonna do after.

[00:16:14] huh? Well, both the parametric curve. This is the middle

[00:16:47] Mids in post very narrow.

[00:17:34] that really illustrates. Some of the differences you’ll hear in different settings on this pedal. It’s wild.

[00:18:04] I’m going to show you what the jump feature does now. So when it’s blue, it’ll jump to zero. Nice. It was red and then it’ll turn off. And then when it’s red, we’ll jump to five. Ooh.

[00:18:51] it’s very mid scooped.

[00:19:22] I’m kind of laughing at the idea of me playing essentially cowboy chords. On a very expensive, probably the most technical illogically advanced dirt pedal on the market right now.

[00:19:41] and on my hand built goes the Meda tuna town by Layla city up in Alberta, Canada.

[00:21:03] Yeah,

[00:21:56] last one though.

[00:22:37] all right. Well, that’s, that’s about enough of that for now. Um, thanks for watching. Uh, please like subscribe comment below, uh, check out the trace bliss, automaton. Preamp Mkii into my tunatone teeny tuna by Leila Sidi, transit lab cables. These were based out of Canada. Um, yeah, so I’m, I mean, for the record, I did buy this pedal with my money.

[00:23:06] Uh, uh, it’s really, really cool. It requires 500 mAs of power. They can’t guarantee it’ll sound good under 400 and they have power. And so you’re going to need your strive in Ohio. And stuff like that to power the sucker if you’re not using a wall. So, uh, that’s something to keep in mind. It’s also kind of, kind of on the big side.

[00:23:28] This is my hand over the pedal, my beautiful, lovely thinkers. It’s a big pedal. I’m going to clear some room and get a different kind of power supply. If I want to keep this on my board, um, which I probably do, uh, I can’t wait until, uh, I hit a mini controller because I think there could be even more fun things to be had with this pedal.

[00:23:55] With that. I think that the idea of screwing around with the meds. Uh, during a song, just like haphazardly. If you’re doing something noisy, I think that’d be a lot of fun and it kind of makes me happy to just think about the noise making, but anyway, that’s enough Yammer and I thanks for watching. Thanks for understanding.

[00:24:16] My name is Emily until next time. Goodbye.