What a cool Analog Delay !!! Anasounds Utopia Deluxe is a tape echo delay pedal and based on one of the best-selling pedals from the early days of Anasounds. The original Utopia is the pedal that turned Anasounds into the brand they currently are. They have redesigned the original Utopia circuit from the ground up, with a brand new voicing for an even more musical delay that’s more fun to play and fully exploits the potential of the famous PT2399 chip.

It took several years to get there, but here it is finally, the Anasounds Utopia Deluxe, and we think it was worth the wait. Of course there’s a tap tempo footswitch that can also trigger self-oscillating infinite repeats. The pedal has three subdivisions to choose from, including dotted eighth. The Deluxe also features a Tone setting for brighter or darker repeats, a built-in preamp that makes your harmonics sparkle like a vintage Echoplex can. A knob adjusts both the volume and gain of the preamp, and a switch puts it in “always on”, “always off” or “on when the delay is active” mode.

Finally, the central “Bliss” knob takes care of modulation. It has three zones for three modulation types (tape echo, chorus and vibrato), and the effect zone allows you to automatically set up depth and speed.