Chase Bliss Habit: How to Be Advanced

Here's the 5 coolest things I discovered about the Habit, a pedal that Chase Bliss describes as an "echo collector." Detailed settings below. Animation and drone footage shot by John Marty. NOTE: I was involved in the late-stage beta testing of this pedal, meaning that I spent time with one of the final prototypes looking for bugs, for which I was paid.
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SETTINGS:
PRO-TIP #1: RUNAWAY 5THS
Level: maximum
Repeats: 4 o'clock
Size: 7 o'clock
Modify: 2 o'clock
Spread: 7:30 o'clock
Scan: 7:30 o'clock
Switches: 1, A, Feed
DIPs: Dry Kill
PRO-TIP #2: ONE-KNOB SYNTH
Level: maximum
Repeats: 2 o'clock
Size: 10 o'clock
Modify: 5 o'clock
Spread: 7 o'clock
Scan: 11 o'clock
Switches: 1, B, In
DIPs: Dry Kill
PRO-TIP #3: HAUNTED ROOM
Level: 11 o'clock
Repeats: 2 o'clock
Size: 7 o'clock
Modify: 10:30 o'clock
Spread: 8 o'clock
Scan: 7 o'clock
Switches: 2, B, In
DIPs: Modify, Bounce, Dry Kill
PRO-TIP #4: TIME TO GET MANGLED
Level: 2:30 o'clock
Repeats: 11 o'clock
Size: 10 o'clock
Modify: 3:30 o'clock
Spread: 8 o'clock
Scan: 7 o'clock
Switches: 3, A, Feed
DIPs: Size, Bounce, Random
PRO-TIP #5: BEST ARPEGGIATOR EVER
Level: 10:30 o'clock
Repeats: 8:30 o'clock
Size: 9:30 o'clock
Modify: 5 o'clock
Spread: 2:30 o'clock
Scan: 12 o'clock
Switches: 1, A, In
DIPs: Modify, Bounce, Random, Collect
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:48 Pro-Tip #1: Runaway 5ths
01:31 Sound Example
02:08 Pro-Tip #2: 1-Knob Synth
02:48 Sound Example
03:25 Pro-Tip #3: Haunted Room
03:54 Sound Example
04:17 Pro-Tip #4: Time to Get Mangled
04:47 Sound Example
05:27 Pro-Tip #5: Best Arpeggiator Ever
06:09 Sound Example

[@CyberattackWorld]

CORRECTION: The diagrams in my video for pro-tips 3 & 4 are switched-so the knob positions I show for #3, Haunted Room, are what you should use for #4, Time to Get Mangled, and vice versa. Sorry for the error. The info in the video description is correct if you just want to use that.

[@cjbogannam]

No one else is doing pedal demos like this and it’s awesome. Thanks for the great content

[@RhettShull]

This is incredible, great demo as always! Edit: The TI-83 really took me back. Core memory unlocked.

[@CyberattackWorld]

dude I was just helping my parents clean out their storage unit in NJ, which has a lot of my junk from high school, and I found my old TI-83 in a box, and I FLIPPED OUT. I was not ready for the wave of core memories that got unlocked so quickly. anyway thanks man

[@frankvaleron]

Funky blue axe

[@JustASnack]

I love your sounds, and your unapologetic visual aesthetic sets you apart from all other pedal youtubers

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man

[@Zpro20]

I like how you max out the pedal to its most experimental possibilities but then bring it back to contexts within a song, so cool!

[@CyberattackWorld]

Thanks, in my opinion it would all be pointless without songs

[@oliverhorton9597]

I love that you put all of your pro tips into a context of a song! Nice demo!

[@CyberattackWorld]

Thanks that’s the fun part

[@emilyharpist]

Great demo!!! P.S. I can confirm this pedal pairs really well with a certain type of Tropicana Orange Juice™️

[@CyberattackWorld]

unreal comment, thank you Emily

[@esmoroglu]

Your videos are proof that creativity is when technology shines like this.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👋🏼

[@eugenegreen9187]

Very well said! It's the user, not the gear. But I do love gear!

[@joelknutson2540]

That haunted room pro tip is borderline awesome! Actually, it’s all awesome. Great sounds as usual.

[@CyberattackWorld]

just try to understand, I've given all I can

[@basementriffs]

By far the best video on the Habit... I may have written this off as another Blooper or Mood until seeing this video. Great work.

[@chriswilloughby48]

I love that music @5:09

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks, it's from this (and a million other places): kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnytaJ9qnN5npdE

[@giobass]

So good that you put in copeland‘s „double time feel“ backbeat at the end of protip 1! Love when Stewart does that in the recording! And congrats on being part of this! Amazing!

[@CyberattackWorld]

Lol thanks for noticing

[@IDriveAnAudi]

Excellent video in every regard. Thank you! I have a Habit coming in a couple days and am looking forward to trying some of these tricksto!

[@BenTOGM]

This is just such a great demo video. A brief explanation of what each setting is going to do, a quick diagram to show the exact knob positions, and *then* a cool little jam showing each idea in context. On top of that you have those cool pixellated videos over each piece of music. Hats off to you sir!

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man glad you dig it

[@nostandingonlydancin]

That arpeggiated sequence was amazing. Kudos to you sir.

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks, that one is my personal fave. it started out as a cover of this song but then it sort of became its own thing, but the chords are still the same: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3_FmHpvgpWKj6c

[@jsogman]

"Better than an arpeggiator? Get outta town!.... Ahhh. Yes. Damn Shut me up. "

[@JayVeMontgomery]

So glad they got you in on this!

[@seangarland]

Great use of this pedal in a song setting. And you're video production is outstanding! New subscriber! Thanks!

[@Sadsoft]

Oh shit bliss has him now. Good job on demo. Cool to hear don’t stand so close on the first demo

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks I'm glad you caught that, I've been on the lookout for some version of that sound for ages

[@davidbowen169]

I love your strange pedals that expand the boundaries of what you can do with a guitar. So, I love your channel too. So many demos are just random noise making that really do those pedals a huge disservice. Giving actionable ideas and creating musical expression from the obscure or unusual effect is a the mark of a true musician/artist. Thanks

[@CyberattackWorld]

Thanks a lot man

[@pamelaa4010]

Dood, your pedal tips are gold.... Thank you....! =)

[@Sturphy]

Your style is badass. Thank you,.

[@CyberattackWorld]

glad ya dig it, thank you

[@robertprice5839]

These tips are incredible, unique, and inspiring. Anything that offers the possibilities CB does can often leave one immediately confused, frustrated, and then inevitably reaching that plateau and mastering, putting it away for later days, or just straight out giving up. You’ve turned the pedal inside out, embraced it for many of its functions that haven’t been widely explored, and seriously showing its hidden capabilities. I am impressed. Got anything on the Empress Zoia?

[@IsaiahGrande]

Love your channel man keep up the great content

[@CyberattackWorld]

thank you

[@esmoroglu]

Beautiful creative momenti in your videos!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@SPaulAndrewMaertens]

I just instantly like your stuff at this point.

[@MrLiftr]

I read the title and thought this was a Gary Vee video 🤣... but loved it and subbed👊

[@CyberattackWorld]

I had to look up who that is. Thanks for the sub

[@dissent1019]

Bahaaaa now I can’t unsee it

[@YukiTheSynthDragon]

your aesthetic keeps getting better with every video !

[@CyberattackWorld]

Thanks Yuki

[@SPaulAndrewMaertens]

That "Arpeggiator" sound was oh so sweet.

[@paulpuljic6025]

Just snagged a Habit off Reverb...great content...keep on doing.

[@colinemily9856]

Great content, as always. When are we getting another AMA? I've enjoyed hearing about your approach to making music and it shifted things in my mind emphasizing being creative over making the same sounds other artists have already done.

[@CyberattackWorld]

oh man I love to hear that. Next AMA is going to be in 2 weeks-ish, I will make the announcement soon. thank you for this comment.

[@DrBleepBlip]

This is a good video. Thanks for sharing your creativity and knowledge with us.

[@Rich-pi6jk]

Sick video. Looks wild.

[@Michael-xp1fq]

Thanks for doing this video! Much appreciated. Helped me immensely with my habit.

[@thebottleshop]

This is the illest habit demo. 💯🔥✊

[@Lanearndt]

Love the Madonna references!

[@CyberattackWorld]

Glad you caught that

[@lilybeejones]

WHAT YOU GOT IT ALREADY I don't own any Chase Bliss stuff but this seems like a fun one for me.

[@CyberattackWorld]

Yeah dude I was actually a late-stage beta tester for this pedal. All I was doing was looking for bugs basically, and I couldn't find any (and if I had I probably would have liked them and used them).

[@eugenegreen9187]

Texas Instruments finally made a polyphonic workstation calculator! I've been waiting for this!

[@CyberattackWorld]

same, it's a big day

[@ShaighJosephson]

I use it alot up front for its ability to emulate distorted amps... You can pull some crazy good stuff out of this pedal...

[@rollittakeit]

The Perfect 5ths like Andy Summer's Roland sound on "Secret Journey" is awesome. Def gonna cop that.

[@CyberattackWorld]

i was really excited to find that one

[@robertsyrett1992]

I really enjoyed your musical examples. Thanks for putting in the extra effort.

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks glad you dig it

[@waggy4703]

Your vids are wonderful

[@soundisles]

Some hot and rad Habit jams.

[@ericamoretti5148]

so good!🤩

[@shoseinen]

This is one of those pedals i did'nt understand what's about if not a delay pedal... but i'm loving it more than any Chase bliss pedal now

[@nigelthornberry5375]

The one-knob synth is exactly what the "spiral" effect in virtual dj 8 does, but for mic inputs. Sounds minor but I'm already thinking of the underworld-esque vocal trickery now at my disposal

[@jives.]

awesome

[@iosifkalpaktsoglou2045]

Bit late but between this and the merris lvx what is your suggestion? Also will all these pedals stand the test of time or like the multi effects of yesteryear will end up in pawn shops for 100 bucks and we would have been better off buying more metal zones?

[@DeGroove]

Sneeked in another Slayer riff…you devil you 🤘

[@CyberattackWorld]

glad somebody finally caught that

[@DeGroove]

@@CyberattackWorld Probably not enough Slayer fans watching whacky pedal reviews. Nonetheless, Keep up the great work, love your creativity. Take care.

[@timrizzo3941]

Cool sounds, man. I do love the cascading arpeggio stuff you can get out of it that runs away and turns into crumpling foil sounds and then noise(just like the Blooper). Though what I love most is using scan and spread to compose on the fly. Like CBAs other recent offerings, it rewards time spent. Favorite CBA pedal thus far.

[@CyberattackWorld]

Might be my fave too.

[@neenerheaddj]

SO good. Thanks for doing what you do, man. All facets of it. It’s all very inspiring. ❤️

[@CyberattackWorld]

Thank you, you have an incredible username

[@EdgeofBreakup]

Deeply enjoyed this! Great stuff!

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man

[@mikomedina1682]

great job brother! Love it,

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man

[@haiderman1610]

Bro 😱 like I’m only now understanding what chase bliss have done in the pedal world

[@MortChud]

So if I play samples into the habit it will record my samples and loop them? Im trying to understand how this thing works. Every video I've seen it pretty much sounds exactly the same. Not the settings but the sound itself.

[@CyberattackWorld]

You can play samples into it, as long as you can get your samples onto a guitar cable, and then it will mangle your samples and basically Chase Bliss-ify them. I think if you approach it as a way to mess up your samples, you'll be more satisfied than if you look to it to be a predictable and consistent looper.

[@eugenegreen9187]

This is such a creative, awesome video. Love the art style and the jams and I haven't even finished watching the video and I have to comment with run-on sentences. I would LOVE to know where that bass sound came from in the 1-knob synth/OP-1 jam. I LOVE IT! This is inspiring!

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man, that bass sound is 2 different synth basses in GarageBand doubling the same part in octaves. i programmed them using MIDI bars etc., all inside GarageBand

[@leetintary2074]

I’m liking this just so I can come back for the settings even though I don’t own this yet. Had me at pitch shift. When will Fender release an Andy Summers Roland synth guitar? That teenage engineering might even be more expensive than the habit. The habit and the death by audio echo dream could get trippy together. Stepped! Not Johnny Marr arpeggios.

[@MusicDiscoveryLab]

1:54 Don't stand. Don't stand so. Don't stand so close to me!

[@sebastianx13]

You can get the rolling 5ths shimmer with the count to five pedal as well. Sounds almost exactly the same

[@CyberattackWorld]

Good to know thank you

[@sampacker6547]

Good stuff, Mr. how to be advanced

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks man

[@NathanHuiYi]

When I step up in the place, ay yo, I step correct Woo hah, got you all in check

[@CyberattackWorld]

I had major fun recreating that beat

[@HenricWallmark]

Amazing music and sounds!! Question: how did you gif up those green topped canyons? Wonderful

[@CyberattackWorld]

A lot of it is messing with video plug-ins from megakrunch.com/

[@benjihollister]

Bro you gotta do a Tensor video!!

[@Mamiilou]

OMG, HAUNTED ROOM IS MY FAV K BYE

[@mikemastel]

Gotta ask, what is that guitar? Looks like a mockingbird, but I don’t recognize the headstock

[@CyberattackWorld]

It's a custom guitar I had built for me by Alex Glasser at Iron Horse Instruments. I love the mockingbird shape (and I have a BC Rich one) so we copied it.

[@mikemastel]

Rad! Thanks for the info!

[@peterpower2485]

amazing man, excellent break down, just bought one, can't wait.

[@jessetoews2446]

Polymoon could be a sweet pedal for this series

[@CyberattackWorld]

I love that pedal. I don't own one, but my producer does and we used it all over this track, with no clue what we were doing with it: cyberattack.bandcamp.com/track/i-just-wanna-talk

[@MrDream-zm1pw]

You should do a How to Be Advanced on the Boss Sy1/200. It is a phenomenal pedal with many great sounds. Just found out you can actually emulate a bitcrusher as well as make synthpop sounds like Beach House

[@CyberattackWorld]

I don’t have one but that thing looks incredible

[@FleeceMusic]

So epic

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks Fleece i love u always

[@constantinflux]

Glitchily!

[@RickDrift]

1:43 and then Dire Straights comes in

[@energ1zed452]

Okay, so buy the habit. Sure fkn thing;)

[@rahzark]

plis make how to be advanced of the pedals i own. thanks in advance cyber man!

[@CyberattackWorld]

i'll do my cyber best

[@alexmw14]

Woo-hah!

[@WilsonsAssociate]

Woo Hah!!

[@adensenycia172]

have you spent time in australia? there is like a 5 percent australian accent in there!

[@CyberattackWorld]

Zero time, zero accent

[@ericamoretti5148]

@@CyberattackWorld we should go

[@CyberattackWorld]

@@ericamoretti5148 ok cool yes

[@adensenycia172]

@@CyberattackWorld ha okay okay. I forgot to say I really enjoyed this demo and the video edits you make to go with it!

[@CyberattackWorld]

@@adensenycia172 all good man thank you!

[@j58688grgrs]

I absolutely love your videos dude. Do you have a discord channel?? You should have a discord channel. PEDAL NERDS ASSEMBLE

[@CyberattackWorld]

Thanks man. No Discord yet (that I’m aware of) but I’d love for it to happen

[@_greenkelly]

seems similar to the raster v2 in some ways

[@CyberattackWorld]

I don’t have the raster but I have the same sense

[@_greenkelly]

@@CyberattackWorld they can both do crazy things to the delay's feedback loop

[@deadoctopi5070]

This is awesome. Makes me want one more, fuck my wallet. LOVED the mangling settings

[@CyberattackWorld]

I have a video coming out next week about (more) ways not to buy pedals, if you can hang on that long you might be safe

[@justzachary96]

I wish I had money for that

[@Sugarloaf_Games]

Last sound example is a jam and a half

[@CyberattackWorld]

thanks, it started out as a cover of this song but then it sort of became its own thing, still the same chords though: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3_FmHpvgpWKj6c

[@Sugarloaf_Games]

@@CyberattackWorld Knew I sounded familiar, couldn't quite place it! Cheers man, love the vids.

[@CyberattackWorld]

@@Sugarloaf_Games nice, thanks man

[@gooseman480]

I have all of your secrets now.

[@CyberattackWorld]

not the ones in the unreleased video I'm putting out next week though

[@mocash97]

woo hah

[@CyberattackWorld]

wreck the disco tech

[@christopherpederson1021]

Imo this company is overrated and overpriced

[@darionbuck4614]

In this case I can't argue, but a lot of their more practical effects are worth the $350 price, because of the tweakability and the dipswitches, allowing you to customize your ramping with an expression pedal all in a small footprint. They can do what the much much larger footprints can do. But ya the habit is just ridiculous