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Pete Celi, Gregg Stock and Dave Fruehling had all worked together at Line 6 and Alesis before starting their own company, Damage Control Engineering, in Westlake Village, California, in 2004. They dropped their original product line in 2009 and relaunched under the Strymon name with the OB.1 compressor, carrying over the same combination of analog circuitry and heavy digital signal processing that's defined the brand since. The TimeLine delay and BigSky reverb became the pedals most players associate with Strymon, both still built in the US. We follow new Strymon releases and firmware updates closely, and its cab-simulation technology shows up in our tone-shaping guides too. Here's what we've written.
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What is Strymon known for?
High-end digital reverbs and delays. The company started in 2004 as Damage Control Engineering, is based in Westlake Village, California, and manufactures in the United States. Its pedals mix analogue circuitry with digital signal processing, and BigSky and TimeLine are the products the reputation rests on.
Why are Strymon pedals expensive?
They sit at the top of the mass-produced pedal market rather than in the boutique-scarcity bracket. The price reflects the processing power, the depth of editing and preset handling, and US manufacture. Whether that is worth it depends entirely on whether you need presets and MIDI or just a good reverb.
What is the El Capistan?
Strymon's tape echo emulation, modelling the mechanical behaviour of a tape machine — wow, flutter, tape age and different head configurations — rather than just the delay time. The Volante is the larger multi-head version of the same idea.
What is the Strymon Iridium?
An amp and cabinet modeller in a standard pedal enclosure, with three amp models and impulse response cabinets, designed for going direct to a desk or interface. It is the pedal that made 'amp in a box, no amp required' a normal choice for players who did not want a modelling floorboard.