Strymon (company)

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Strymon
TypeMusic Instruments
IndustryGuitar Effects Pedals
Founded2008
Headquarters
Westlake Village, California
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ParentDamage Control Engineering
Websitestrymon.net

Strymon is an American manufacturer of audio equipment, owned by Damage Control Engineering. They are best known for their line of high end guitar effects pedals which use a mixture of analog circuitry and digital signal processing. The company is based in Westlake Village, California, and manufactures products in the United States.

Products[]

A Strymon BigSky reverb pedal

The Strymon product line includes distortion, delay,[1] reverb,[2] chorus,[3] flanger and compressor.[4]

Effects pedals[]

  • blueSky - Plate, room and spring reverb, with modulation and shimmer modes
  • BRIGADIER - Bucket-brigade driven analog simulated delay
  • El Capistan - DSP-driven pedal that recreates the sound and characteristics of several tape echo machines
  • Flint - Dual pedal that emulates vintage tremolo and reverb circuits
  • Ola - DSP-driven, bucket-brigade style chorus and vibrato effects pedal
  • Orbit - DSP-driven, bucket-brigade style flanger pedal
  • Lex - DSP-driven pedal that recreates the sound of a rotary speaker and horn
  • Tap Favorite - Preset select and tap tempo switch
  • TimeLine - DSP-driven delay pedal with 12 delay types, numerous parameters, looping capability, and preset storage. Features MIDI in & out
  • Mobius - Modulation pedal with 12 mod types, numerous parameters, and preset storage, features MIDI in & Out
  • BigSky - Reverb pedal with 12 reverb types, numerous parameters, and preset storage, features MIDI in & out[5]
  • DECO - DSP-driven dual pedal that emulates tape saturation and a double track tape machine
A Strymon El Capistan delay pedal
  • MultiSwitch - An extended controller for the TimeLine, Mobius, and BigSky pedals
  • DIG - Simultaneous, rack voiced, dual integrated digital delay
  • Riverside - A hybrid JFET/DSP drive pedal
  • Sunset - DSP-driven dual overdrive pedal with all-analog JFET boost stage
  • Volante - DSP-driven delay pedal that recreates the sound and characteristics of magnetic drum echo, tape echo and studio reel-to-reel echo machines, with looping capability and preset storage, features MIDI in & out
  • Iridium - Amp & IR Cab pedal. Strymon's unique take on amp modeling. Rather than try to be everything to all players, the Iridium focuses on clean-to-crunch amp textures, with models of the Fender Deluxe Reverb, Vox AC30TB and Marshall Plexi, driven by the company's new Matrix Modeling.
  • NightSky - A reverberant synthesis workstation, with real-time continuous control of reverb pitch/processing rate/core size, harmonics, and a synth-like resonant filter with multiple modulation waveshapes, plus a step sequencer with variable glide.
  • Compadre – Dual pedal with compression and boost, with two differents options for compressor voicing, as well as clean and dirty boost circuits
  • Zelzah – A “multidimensional phaser" with two sides, a 4-stage side with settings ranging from phasing to vibrato, and a 6-stage side providing phasing, flanging, chorus.

Eurorack modules[]

  • StarLab - Stereo time-warped reverberator
  • Magneto – Stereo multi-head tape delay and looper
  • AA1 Level Shifter – Amplifier and attenuator, amplifies guitar signals to modular system level

Power supplies[]

  • Zuma – Power supply with 9 isolated 500 mA outputs, of which two are adjustable between 9/12/18 V
  • Zuma R300 – Power supply with 5 isolated 500 mA outputs, of which one is adjustable between 9/12/18 V. Ultra-low profile design
  • Ojai – Power supply with 5 isolated 500 mA outputs.
  • Ojai R30 – Power supply with 5 isolated 500 mA outputs, of which two are adjustable between 9/12/18 V

Discontinued Products[]

  • Favorite switch - Preset select switch[6] and replaced with MiniSwitch
  • OB.1 - Analog optical compressor and clean boost pedal

References[]

  1. ^ "Strymon Brigadier Delay, Orbit Flanger, Blue Sky Reverberator, and Ola Chorus & Vibrato Pedal Reviews". www.premierguitar.com. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Strymon Introduces the BigSky Reverberator". www.premierguitar.com. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Ola-la! Strymon stays versatile with new chorus". www.whatsthatdudeplay.com. Archived from the original on 10 March 2012. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  4. ^ Barr, Brian; Burgess, Chris; Guzman, Gary; Ouimette, Steve; Rardin, Kenny; Wagner, Jordan. "Stomping Grounds: 25 Pedals Reviewed". www.premierguitar.com. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
  5. ^ Sound on Sound: Strymon Big Sky, January 2014
  6. ^ "Tap Favorite – external tap tempo switch / preset switch". Strymon.

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