Dark World is the first fully digital offering from Chase Bliss Audio; a unique dual channel reverb that we made with a little help from our friends. Cooper FX is responsible for the “Dark” channel; a collaborative effort influenced partly by their Generation Loss and Outward designs. Keeley Electronics crafted the “World” channel, which houses three absolutely gorgeous Hall, Plate, and Spring algorithms. Put together, the channels can be routed in 33 distinct ways, creating a stunning palette of reverb ranging from subtle, tasteful, and lush all the way to broken video cassette, glitch shimmer, and infinite freeze. Add all this to the dense digital control and full MIDI, dip-switch, and preset implementation Chase Bliss is known for, and you have yourself a very fun, powerful, and player-friendly reverb pedal in a small package.
The brand-new Dark World Dual Channel Reverb is built off a core of DSP reverb algorithms created in collaboration with Robert Keeley at Keeley Engineering and Tom Majeski at Cooper FX. Inspired by Hyrule's Dark World in Super Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, the pedal features two channels. One offers more corporeal, true-to-life reverb effects, while the second channel brings out the more mysterious and otherworldly. The two channels can run in parallel or react with one another—with events on the lighter "World" side triggering sounds on the "Dark" side, or vice versa.