Strymon Riverside

BintyTwanger77

WarpedSounds said:

How long has Heisenberg been working for Strymon?

No goop in his pedals, just pure blue glass...you're goddamn right...

sgosden

How many ''presets" can you have from the favourite switch? 
Is it just 1 favourite pre dialed and then whatever is currently on the pedal?

BintyTwanger77

sgosden said:

How many ''presets" can you have from the favourite switch? 
Is it just 1 favourite pre dialed and then whatever is currently on the pedal?

Just the one preset on the favourite switch and whatever is currently dialled in, so two. If you add an external boost switch, you get +6dB of boost, so I suppose technically you've got 3.

Teetonetal

meltedbuzzbox said:

I'm still yet to try a Strymon. I am worried at the prospect of falling in love and spending a small fortune. The timeline sounds spectacular in all the demos I've heard. 

Not sure I could spend Strymon monies on a dirt box though

I dipped my toe with the flint and it's spectacular.

BintyTwanger77

Teetonetal said:

meltedbuzzbox said:

I'm still yet to try a Strymon. I am worried at the prospect of falling in love and spending a small fortune. The timeline sounds spectacular in all the demos I've heard. 

Not sure I could spend Strymon monies on a dirt box though

I dipped my toe with the flint and it's spectacular.

The Hall reverb and harmonic trem are beautiful.

monquixote

I think the Riverside is quite a cool concept. 

I spoke to a couple of FX designers in the past about doing this in the analogue domain and they mentioned that the digitally controlled analogue pots as used in things like the H&K Switchblade and Grandmeister are horrible and would over complicate the pedal so doing it digital with analogue clipping is probably a good compromise. 

You can actually do something fairly similar with any decent multi fx. When I had a GT-100 I found that if you stuck a MIAB type pedal in the loop you could stick an EQ before and after it in the patch and then by tweaking about you could have any number of different gains and tones by pushing different frequencies. 

crunchman

BintyTwanger77 said:

sgosden said:

How many ''presets" can you have from the favourite switch? 
Is it just 1 favourite pre dialed and then whatever is currently on the pedal?

Just the one preset on the favourite switch and whatever is currently dialled in, so two. If you add an external boost switch, you get +6dB of boost, so I suppose technically you've got 3.

I saw a video where it was demoed with an external expression pedal.  You could definitely get a third sound with that that would be more than just adding boost.  E.g you could set a low gain sound with flat mids with the expression pedal in the heel position, and a higher gain sound with boosted mids and a higher volume level in the toe position.  The expression pedal would then allow not just the two extremes but all points in between as well.

I really like the look of this.  When I looked at the weekend, no UK dealers that I could find still had it in stock though.

Teetonetal

I've just listened to the Strymon vidoes. What are they thinking? Its sounds pretty average on those! But so do the basic tones they are getting from the amps.

BintyTwanger77

Teetonetal said:

I've just listened to the Strymon vidoes. What are they thinking? Its sounds pretty average on those! But so do the basic tones they are getting from the amps.

Those demo videos absolutely do not do this pedal justice.

BGG

Teetonetal said:

BintyTwanger77 said:

Teetonetal said:

BintyTwanger77 said:j

You can use an external favourite switch as a boost as well. If you don't use fuzz, dirt-wise you could pretty much do a whole gig with just the Riverside.

I can also easily do a whole Gig without it!

Because Double Decker and Helix?

Home use tools for me all my giging  dirt needs covered by the rather wonderful brunetti pleximan also trying to talk myself out of gas!

I must admit I'd like to hear one of these in the flesh.  The strymon stuff I've used has been very good. Is this a 100% digital pedal?

Are you still using the Pleximan @Teetonetal  ?

jellybelly

I'd like to hear too - I was hoping this being released was the start of Strymon putting together multi fx units as they'd found a way to make digital dirt 'acceptable' to the tgp crowd but it all seems to have got quiet...

Teetonetal

@BGG yes, I love it!

BGG

Teetonetal said:

@BGG yes, I love it!

Thanks for the reply I'm torn between a V40 and a Pleximan ... leaning way more towards the Pleximan.

Teetonetal

@BGG will PM you