Strymon Big Sky Plugin

[whassup]

Damn...Sweetwater sells this. $34 bucks a month for a few months doesn't sound terrible to pay it off. No! You don't need this! Wait at least!

Batman helps you save money.

Batman vs GAS. Loving it!

[Hewitt Huntwork]

Deco, El Cap, Mobius, Irridium... Those are all pedals I would buy as plugins, so I hope they keep at it.

[weilhalt]

I guess there will be soon a subscription based model including all pedals as plugins.

[weilhalt]

There are two categories of users of audio software-- pros and amateurs. The pros have a bigger budget, so they are willing to buy $199 plug-ins. Amateurs are generally not willing to pay this much. ...

And there is a 3rd category, those who think they are pros just by buying overpriced software. Real pros simply make good music, even with the plugins included in your DAW.

[Vortifex]

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[whyterabbyt]

There are two categories of users of audio software-- pros and amateurs.

There's only one category of massive oversimplification of multiple complex spectra, though.

[kranick]

So, does anyone know what is the second most expensive reverb plugin in the world now?

[foosnark]

Someone compared it to buying Valhalla plugins, but they’re an algorithm each for $50, and this is 12 algorithms for $199

I had a similar thought earlier this morning. The Valhalla plugins do have multiple algos (or variations at least), but is the diversity of algos in Big Sky roughly equivalent to buying Plate, Vintage, Room and Shimmer? And if so, are the Valhalla plugins more specialized, so $200 of Valhalla plugins still winds up covering more generally than the Strymon option?

But anyway, I have several great reverbs, more than I can use honestly, so the only thing that's going to convince me to buy another is something different and fairly inexpensive.

[wakax]

well - I would say this has 12 algos and its very very good and underrated...
https://www.audiority.com/shop/xenoverb/
45$

not happy with Strymon choice but what can I say...
they make amazing stuff.

[guitarmiester]

As a guitarist, it's cool to see Strymon venture into VST land. I've spent a stupid amount on delay and reverb pedals over the years. Can't say I'd do the same when it comes to delay and reverb VSTs. I'll wait for these guys to follow suit of Eventide with $29 sales. Even that might not be enough to entice since I'm pretty well covered with Eventide's Blackhole and MangledVerb.

[zerocrossing]

Valhalla are not $50 per algorithm. In fact:

Valhalla Vintageverb at $50 has the following algorithms: Concert Hall / Bright Hall / Plate / Room / Chamber / Random Space / Chorus Space / Ambience / Sanctuary / Dirty Hall / Dirty Plate / Smooth Plate / Smooth Room / Smooth Random / Nonlin / Chaotic Hall / Chaotic Chamber / Chaotic Neutral / Cathedral

Valhalla Plate at $50 has the following algorithms: Chrome / Steel / Brass / Cobalt / Adamantium / Titanium / Osmium / Aluminum / Copper / Unobtainium / Radium / Lithium

Valhalla Room at $50 has the following algorithms, with more adjustment parameters: Large Room / Medium Room / Bright Room / Large Chamber / Dark Room / Dark Chamber / Dark Space / Nostromo / Narcissus / Sulaco / LV-426 / Dense Room

Valhalla Shimmer at $50 has the following modes: Single / Dual / SingleReverse / DualReverse / Bypass - these apply to the following algorithms: Mono / BigStereo / MediumStereo / SmallStereo

Supermassive is free and has 16 algorithms, but nothing's stopping you from getting a Big Sky plugin and still getting Supermassive for free

There are other reverb plugins in the $200 (and up) price range. Altiverb, Adaptiverb, Fabfilter, Soundtoys, of course Lexicon sails way up from there (they got a $1300 reverb software package). But you gotta be swinging something heavy to fit in with those. I'm going to download and evaluate the Strymon plugin, as I do like their pedals and I've followed the company since it was Damage Control (used to have a mess of Damage Control pedals, once upon a time, people quite liked the Timeline and Glass Nexus back in their day, ridiculously huge though they were). Not convinced I'll buy it - I'd be more likely to just get the pedal for $200 since that's about what the V1s run used anyway (or talk myself into spending the extra $100 for the V2 if the upgrades seemed compelling when looking into it, which I have not done because I am quite happy with my current reverb pedals), then I could use it with my outboard processing loop or I could use it on a pedalboard.

But if you were only looking for ITB usage and arbitrary number of copies in a project, I'm not knocking their offering, it is what it is - does it sound like $200?

My bad, I didn’t realize the Valhalla plugins came with so many variants. Anyway, I’ve purchased a Big Sky to demo, and I did think it sounded like $200 worth of plugin. I didn’t keep it because I didn’t feel it was worth the desk space, when I have the Eventide plugins, B2, Valhalla Shimmer, the UAD Lexicon plugins, UAD EMT plugins, REFLECT, etc.

Anyway, I’m excited to have their flavor of reverb at my disposal, and hopefully, if it does well, it will be incentive to release plugins of their other pedals, which I also think sound fantastic. I’d definitely buy a few of their plugins if they existed.

[zerocrossing]

I get why they did it, but a rotary control for reverb type choice is silly for software.

[pekbro]

I like the Valhalla stuff, but there is plenty that I often prefer over them tbh. Same with the strymon pedals, there are plenty pedal based reverbs/delays I use and prefer over them. I do consider them my workhorse pedals as they have a ton of features, where the more 'boutique' and interesting pedals are often less flexible.

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[VitaminD]

I get why they did it, but a rotary control for reverb type choice is silly for software.

You can click on the labels too. So no need to use the rotary.

[SLiC]

well - I would say this has 12 algos and its very very good and underrated...
https://www.audiority.com/shop/xenoverb/
45$

not happy with Strymon choice but what can I say...
they make amazing stuff.

I posted this earlier- it's on sale at the moment audio deluxe- I just paid £22 for it and V1.4 is CLAP.