Chase Bliss Audio Warped Vinyl

[Ugly Nora]

Joel how many are you building of these? I believe you originally stated you were doing like 60 but it seems like you have surpassed that. I remember I was order #35 or #36 and that was a long time ago. Anyway I hope they are selling well for you and I look forward to your trem pedal. Any updates on that?

[chaseblissaudio]

Joel how many are you building of these? I believe you originally stated you were doing like 60 but it seems like you have surpassed that. I remember I was order #35 or #36 and that was a long time ago. Anyway I hope they are selling well for you and I look forward to your trem pedal. Any updates on that?

I've actually sold around 200, so I have been really happy with that.

I'm going to be announcing a new pedal 6 weeks (not a trem). I'll probably be able to release the trem in the winter... Still need to do some experimenting and r&d.

[Ugly Nora]

Cool congrats on your success. I look forward to seeing your new pedal. I have too many trems anyway.

[Chankgeez]

Maybe Joel will build a Warped Bass Vinyl?

I'm a small-time guy and I do what it takes to make customers happy. I could do that mod very easily... right now the wet side of the circuit loses some subtle low end... I do a treble boost after the bucket brigade filtering because there is something about treble boosting a low pass filter that makes thing sound magical to me. I've re-voiced 2 Warped Vinyls for folks that thought it was too dark, and they've been very happy with that. I love the stock "darkness" especially for chorus, but everyone is different.. With so many manufacturers going to surface mount components, that is one major advantage to having thru-hole technology for the analog pathway, it's easy to do mods and make the pedal your own.

The major downside to doing mods is that it's just too costly for international customers like Tristan. Of course.

I've also thought of doing a hi-fi warped vinyl. high headroom and low noise, same kind of thing.... it wouldn't have the low end loss either so that could be something for the bass players.

I know I've said this before, but I just fucking hate how expensive it is. Their aren't too many nice things about having it be expensive, but typically when people buy one they take a little time to figure out how it works and are naturally pretty sophisticated pedal users (otherwise they wouldn't drop that much dough on a pedal), so that is a weird side benefit. I'd much rather have them be $100 cheaper though.

That's awesome.

[univalve]

Really curious about the New stuff.
If the trem is syncable (midi or Audio Click) i'm Super interested.

[Glenouille]

I'm going to be announcing a new pedal 6 weeks (not a trem). I'll probably be able to release the trem in the winter... Still need to do some experimenting and r&d.

Exciting!

[Tristan]

Maybe Joel will build a Warped Bass Vinyl?

I'm a small-time guy and I do what it takes to make customers happy. I could do that mod very easily... right now the wet side of the circuit loses some subtle low end... I do a treble boost after the bucket brigade filtering because there is something about treble boosting a low pass filter that makes thing sound magical to me. I've re-voiced 2 Warped Vinyls for folks that thought it was too dark, and they've been very happy with that. I love the stock "darkness" especially for chorus, but everyone is different.. With so many manufacturers going to surface mount components, that is one major advantage to having thru-hole technology for the analog pathway, it's easy to do mods and make the pedal your own.

The major downside to doing mods is that it's just too costly for international customers like Tristan. Of course.

I've also thought of doing a hi-fi warped vinyl. high headroom and low noise, same kind of thing.... it wouldn't have the low end loss either so that could be something for the bass players.

I know I've said this before, but I just fucking hate how expensive it is. Their aren't too many nice things about having it be expensive, but typically when people buy one they take a little time to figure out how it works and are naturally pretty sophisticated pedal users (otherwise they wouldn't drop that much dough on a pedal), so that is a weird side benefit. I'd much rather have them be $100 cheaper though.

Wow, cool, interesting, I had no idea you were doing some mods as well.
To me the Warped Vinyl doesn't sound dark at all, especially not the chorus sounds (mix up to 1/2 or 2/3 max).
Like I said it does loose some highs on the vibrato sounds (mix 2/3 up and higher) which is mostly noticeable when you use it with fuzz or drive but that's normal for a vibrato pedal, the only one I know of that doesn't do that is the Cosmichorus V3 because it has the tone control, I like the vibrato on the Warped Vinyl much better though.
Would it also be possible to leave the sound the way it is and only have a bit of a bass boost / more low end throb?
You don't happen to have soundclips from the different mods I guess, right?
Man, a switchable bass boost and treble boost would have been awesome but there's only so much one can fit in such a small package and something has got to be left to be desired hey.
I'm quite curious about your new pedal as well!

[goroth]

Tristan, if you want to get a modded Warped Vinyl talk to me and I may be able to take that old crappy unmodded one off your hands...
:P

[Tristan]

I am thinking about having mine modded though…

[univalve]

I am thinking about having mine modded though…

If you do, maybe i want one with the Same Mod

[Ugly Nora]

Everyone always wants mods. They should make the modded pedals as the standard and then if anyone wants downgraded ability they can send it in to get modded.

[chaseblissaudio]

Everyone always wants mods. They should make the modded pedals as the standard and then if anyone wants downgraded ability they can send it in to get modded.

Yeah, there is certainly some allure to it, I think it's the individuality. The trouble with mods of course is if the person doesn't like the mod. Then you are kind of stuck.

For me, I can only really design for myself and my ear... but every person and every rig is different... so if I have someone (in the states) emails me and say, "I really love it but I wish the vibrato was a bit brighter" I'm pretty confident I can make that person completely happy... but of course there is only so far I want to stray from the design, it has to be sort of a minor change. You also get into the issue of people selling it... if they don't advertise that they had it modded, a person might get it and be unhappy because it doesn't sound how they expect. I've only modded 2 though, and I'm so small that it is pretty manageable at this point.

[chaseblissaudio]

Wow, cool, interesting, I had no idea you were doing some mods as well.
To me the Warped Vinyl doesn't sound dark at all, especially not the chorus sounds (mix up to 1/2 or 2/3 max).
Like I said it does loose some highs on the vibrato sounds (mix 2/3 up and higher) which is mostly noticeable when you use it with fuzz or drive but that's normal for a vibrato pedal, the only one I know of that doesn't do that is the Cosmichorus V3 because it has the tone control, I like the vibrato on the Warped Vinyl much better though.
Would it also be possible to leave the sound the way it is and only have a bit of a bass boost / more low end throb?
You don't happen to have soundclips from the different mods I guess, right?
Man, a switchable bass boost and treble boost would have been awesome but there's only so much one can fit in such a small package and something has got to be left to be desired hey.
I'm quite curious about your new pedal as well!

Yeah, I think that is partly why I love the chorus so much on it. In my experience, if you have a super transparent vibrato, that is when chorus sounds really cheesy. To me, the Warped Vinyl chorus doesn't suffer from that because of the filtering on the vibrato side.

I could definitely revoice yours so that it lets all the low end through the vibrato side... but I'm not sure that will result in what you are looking for. In fact, I'd be a bit worried to do it because of the shipping costs... in the event you didn't like the mod, it could turn into kind of a shitty situation.

I'm not really advertising the mods because it's not something I really like to do... and it has a few pitfalls.

[Ugly Nora]

Well I was just being silly. The other major problem is that you would make people pay for stuff that they may mot want or need.

[chaseblissaudio]

Well I was just being silly. The other major problem is that you would make people pay for stuff that they may mot want or need.

Yes, very true.