Strymon Echo Plugin Bundle

[SonicDimension]

AD needs to up their game vs the arm chips.
I would think the sharc is still better at processing audio, its just slow vs the arm
chip.

Arm is gonna be cheaper tho, maybe thats
the plan as well.

I assumed that the transition to ARM chips was connected to a shortage of the SHARC chips, but I suppose that speed, power efficiency, and cost of ARM were also important factors. Anyway, it's good to know that Strymon is taking steps to future-proof the company's products with newer hardware and these software versions.

[foosnark]

I gave all of the Strymon plugins a try.

I've heard great things about the El Capistan pedal, but I immediately disliked the exaggerated tape saturation sound and couldn't dial in something I liked better. Maybe it works well for some material but definitely not what I was using.

I had some nice results with Dig that I couldn't exactly duplicate with Valhalla Delay. But the character stuff is way too subtle for my liking, and the inability to sync the second delay tap is weird and I wasn't totally on board with the interface overall.

BigSky seemed like a totally competent reverb, but none of the algos stand out as a must-have for me compared to other options I have.

But I really appreciate being able to try them instead of succumbing to the temptation to grab a pedal from Reverb to try it out...

[pekbro]

AD needs to up their game vs the arm chips.
I would think the sharc is still better at processing audio, its just slow vs the arm
chip.

Arm is gonna be cheaper tho, maybe thats
the plan as well.

I assumed that the transition to ARM chips was connected to a shortage of the SHARC chips, but I suppose that speed, power efficiency, and cost of ARM were also important factors. Anyway, it's good to know that Strymon is taking steps to future-proof the company's products with newer hardware and these software versions.

I expect the engineering involved in using the AD chips is quite a bit more complicated
than using arm as well. Most of the pedals and whatnot you see these days using the arm
chips are basically using the Linux kernel as an operating system, this means you can develop for
them in the pretty much the same way you would on a pc or mac, which makes things
a lot easier. While I can't say I've looked into how it works exactly, I expect that the
sharc chips have no such abstraction layer, so you would need to create everything you need
to run your pedal yourself, in both HW and SW. Of course, you could do that with the arm
chips as well, but there's no need, if you're willing to use Linux.

[SLiC]

I gave all of the Strymon plugins a try.

I've heard great things about the El Capistan pedal, but I immediately disliked the exaggerated tape saturation sound and couldn't dial in something I liked better. Maybe it works well for some material but definitely not what I was using.

I had some nice results with Dig that I couldn't exactly duplicate with Valhalla Delay. But the character stuff is way too subtle for my liking, and the inability to sync the second delay tap is weird and I wasn't totally on board with the interface overall.

BigSky seemed like a totally competent reverb, but none of the algos stand out as a must-have for me compared to other options I have.

But I really appreciate being able to try them instead of succumbing to the temptation to grab a pedal from Reverb to try it out...

For me there are 'Guitar' focused pedals (and interfaces) based on the hardware pedal. Obviously they work on anything, but on guitars (in the pedal format) they are beloved! I only have the BigSky as VST (and I use it mainly on re-amping guitars!) and I probably wont bother with these new ones as I have delay covered in hardware pedals, but its a great option for ITB Guitarists and of course anything you do ITB you can recreate live with the 'real' pedal!

[spacepluk]

Has anybody bought this from Europe?

[zerocrossing]

I gave all of the Strymon plugins a try.

I've heard great things about the El Capistan pedal, but I immediately disliked the exaggerated tape saturation sound and couldn't dial in something I liked better. Maybe it works well for some material but definitely not what I was using.

I had some nice results with Dig that I couldn't exactly duplicate with Valhalla Delay. But the character stuff is way too subtle for my liking, and the inability to sync the second delay tap is weird and I wasn't totally on board with the interface overall.

BigSky seemed like a totally competent reverb, but none of the algos stand out as a must-have for me compared to other options I have.

But I really appreciate being able to try them instead of succumbing to the temptation to grab a pedal from Reverb to try it out...

For me there are 'Guitar' focused pedals (and interfaces) based on the hardware pedal. Obviously they work on anything, but on guitars (in the pedal format) they are beloved! I only have the BigSky as VST (and I use it mainly on re-amping guitars!) and I probably wont bother with these new ones as I have delay covered in hardware pedals, but its a great option for ITB Guitarists and of course anything you do ITB you can recreate live with the 'real' pedal!

One thing I didn’t do is try this out on guitar. I’ll try it out tonight if I have time.

[Caine123]

need to demo these but i dunno if these bring anything new to the table when owning valhalla delay, echo boy?

[SLiC]

They seem to bring one new thing- no pre-sets or ability to save pre-sets natively? (unless I am missing something). Not sure why they did this as BigSky has pre-sets...

Anyway, I enjoyed the demo but not a purchase for me, If you have BigSky you have Magneto which pretty much covers the tape delay side, that the beauty of VST, you can just run multiple instances so I can have one BS as a tape delay and another as a reverb etc.

[zerocrossing]

need to demo these but i dunno if these bring anything new to the table when owning valhalla delay, echo boy?

You won’t be getting anything really new, but if you’re looking for a different flavor, you might want it. Best to do a quick demo and compare them side-by-side.

[worldfever]

tried them out, pretty meh. especially dont understand the appeal of the digital one. big sky plugin still absolutely amazing though, need to try out Deco as well

[El°HYM]

Never tried the Big Sky, yet found the Deco pretty underwhelming compared to the Pedal.

[spacepluk]

Never tried the Big Sky, yet found the Deco pretty underwhelming compared to the Pedal.

What is different from the pedal?

[El°HYM]

The sound.

[yellowmix]

The sound.

Why would it be different? Is the pedal not digitally running on Sharc (v1) or ARM (v2)? If you did a double-blind test you'd still need to account for the ADC/DAC conversions at a minimum.

[Funkybot's Evil Twin]

The sound.

Why would it be different? Is the pedal not digitally running on Sharc (v1) or ARM (v2)? If you did a double-blind test you'd still need to account for the ADC/DAC conversions at a minimum.

The only other variable would be sample rate. If the hardware runs internally at 96khz, but the plugin runs at a variable sample rate, that could in theory be another factor. Not saying it is. But just that it's a possibility.