Seymour Duncan Vapor Trail Deluxe Pedal

The Vapor Trail Deluxe offers 100% analog warmth and character. And by utilizing four of the largest, most powerful Bucket Brigade chips in production, it delivers an enhanced tonality with amazing depth, and that perfect balance of clarity and natural degradation that you’d expect from a studio-grade analog delay unit. These high-quality chips also allow for increased delay times of up to 1.2 seconds, and define the character of the pedal’s modulation, which ranges from a subtle shimmer to rotary speaker-like warble with ease.

Seymour Duncan worked tirelessly to provide an inspiring, all-analog tonality in the Vapor Trail Deluxe. But that was just our baseline. From there, Seymour Duncan outfitted the pedal with tap tempo and subdivisions, expression pedal control, and delay trails on/off options, which allow you to decide whether or not you’d like the repeats to carry over when disengaging the pedal. And once you’ve dialed in your perfect delay tone with just the right mix and number of repeats, you can store it for on-the-fly recall in one of three preset locations.

The Vapor Trail Deluxe is also the perfect platform for ambient sonic exploration. First, we carried over the original’s Wet Insert, which allows you to add your own outboard effects to just the repeated signal. Go ahead, throw a phaser or flanger on your echos and take your tone beyond the unknown. Then, we added four new specialty modes that truly push the boundaries of traditional analog delay and bring the Vapor Trail Deluxe into a category of its own: Micro Delay (Extremely fast repeats that are great for replicating double-track, slapback, and Leslie speaker-like effects.), Pitch Sequence (Introduces upper and lower octaves to the wet signal in eight customizable, rhythmic sequences.), Pitch Bender (Puts unique dive-bomb and glissando controls at the tap of your toe.) and Runaway (Allows access to the endless repeats and building energy of self-oscillating “runaway” delay with effortless control.).