Benson Amps Delay

Ever since we got our Monarch 15W amplifier from Benson Amps back in 2017, we’ve loved everything they’ve put out, especially when the effects pedals made their debut. Having already checked out the Preamp, Germanium Fuzz, Germanium Boost and Stonk Box units, we couldn’t wait to get our hands on their first foray into out favorite all-time effect: Delay. The Delay Benson has created brings vintage and modern together, for a unique blend and wide range of echo sounds not common to an enclosure this size…

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Drawing inspiration from Benson’s history in tape and bucket brigade echo servicing, the design goal was creating floaty and colorful repeats with a chaotic yet musical degradation. That’s the heart of the thing, the whole point. With a 30ms-1250ms range, the Benson Delay goes fast enough to do chorus, vibrato and slapback, and slow enough to create blurred and haunted soundscapes, with a whole spectrum of warbly musical sounds in between.

The Benson Delay has the most accurate tap tempo ever applied to the PT2399 thanks to Bontempo, an open source technology concocted by Antoine Ricoux at Electric Canary, which was then refined and implemented by film colorist Octave Zangs (two geniuses). The Low Frequency Oscillator has a tremendous range of both speed and depth, as well as sine, square and random waveforms. It does warble, seasick, tape flutter, all the good sounds.

You can even access a hidden menu that gives you options for different LFO waveforms and lets you set the note tap divisions. In short, the Benson Delay covers a wide spectrum of vintage-tinged echo tones, with a bunch of delicious sonic options thrown in for good measure. We expected nothing less than genius from the Benson Amps crew, and that’s exactly what we got, as usual. Check out their website for more info, and be sure to hear this one in action in our demo video below – enjoy it!!

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