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I've ordered both of these pedals from Andertons, arriving on Saturday. As I have a 14 day cooling off period, I thought I should give these 2 pedals another chance. If I'm fighting a losing battle to please my ears with the "SkyLine" (sorry...), then I can always send them back for a refund.
The reason for giving them another shot is that I miss the layout and the ease of storing presets in banks and, as the Strymons preserve your dry signal, they seem to sound great with dirt pedals... and obviously that they generally sound sublime.
If anyone has these, I'd appreciate some advice, as I don't feel like when I've tried (or owned in the case of the Timeline) these pedals in the past that I've dug into the parameters nearly enough. I know that these pedals are revered by the w**ship crowd, but I would be using these for big grubby post-rock sounds, soundscapes, ambient stuff, Mogwai, Wolf Alice, My Morning Jacket, early Verve....Nick McCabe, I want to sound like Nick McCabe, basically.
If anyone can give me some pointers and tweaking advice for both pedals to create my own epic presets, I'd be hugely grateful. Also, how dark can the Big Sky reverbs get compared to Eventide reverbs?
Thanks, all.
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I will only know after some intensive testing on Saturday...
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I think with both the h9 and the strymons and as @kylef said above, there's a bit of a learning curve with all of them, it took me a little while before I learned to love my strymons just because they're so deep and some of the presets are a bit out there.
Now, I can basically have any mod / delay / reverb sound I want, this has lead to more depth in creating songs for my band. I have passages with phase, a song with rotary pad type sounds etc.
Buying a single modulation pedal on the off chance to use it for just for one middle 8 in a full set isn't financially really viable, but with the möbius those options are at your finger tips.
I currently run wet / dry into 2 amps and found the h9 with its digital converters made it a big headache, I sold it and now am more than happy with my strymons, I often have all 3 on at once!
You won't get away with a pp2+ I dont think. I've read somewhere that they power up from the 250ma outputs but strymon specify 300ma minimum. I use a pedal power 4x4 for mine.
Big Sky: Really digging into the parameters has yielded some amazing results. I can even get close to the Eventide Blackhole alogorithm with some tweaking. Plate, Room, Hall & Spring all sound great, Cloud and Bloom are spectacular...this thing can get very strange. The one comment I don't understand is that it's too hi fi and bright...you can dial it in if you want, but the tone dial can dampen brightness beautifully. I think the killer with this is how great it sounds with dirt pedals, just tremendous. The way the dry signal is preserved really shows, my dirt pedals sound better through the Big Sky than the H9. An amazing pedal, truly had forgotten how great this thing is.
Timeline: Not much to say on this, other than I've owned one before and it is f***ing killer.
Suffice to say it looks like a number of pedals are going to be on sale shortly. One I'm not going to sell, though, is my Flint, because...tremolo. And occasional reverb stacking.