Strymon Big Sky Reverb Teardown! See what's inside! 

Such a cool name and likely a reference to Marvel. Dorks. Lol

they used to produce the Demonizer and Womanizer pedals. I craved them during my teenage years, but ended up with 3 boss crunch boxes which I adore.

also want to mention Damage Control did alot of tube pedals including the timeline was tube originally. You can see where the current version came from with the original having alot of similar ideas implemented.

Yup, I was going to make the same comment - it’s next to the MIDI jacks, and looks like other optocoupler chips I’ve seen.

Yep, confirmed. Inside the Timeline is the exact same PCB. Same part number and everything.

I don't believe so.

Yeah, those things are nuts! At least they can justify their cost.

That DSP chip is ~$60 on mouser. I’m sure strymon gets price breaks for the quantity they buy, but still.

When doing SMD processes, you often use no-clean flux. Which doesn't really need to be cleaned and there are little benefits to doing so. Why add an extra processing cost and make the pedal cost more for no benefit.

@@PickledDill907 I'm talking about the flux around the ring of LEDs. It looks like standard flux that has been washed with IPA, but hasn't been followed up with a water wash to fully clean the residue off. As to why? Strymon's market position is that of 'premium quality', so surely they would want to back that up with high-end manufacturing.

@@gerrykavanagh something is sketchy with this board. Its missing the plastic board to board standoffs. Someone had this thing open and was messing with it prior to this video being shot. Could have been sent in for repair or could have been a different at-home tech. Those encoders break easier than the pots do, and it looks like both were replaced. Def not from the factory looking like that.

Stick it in the dishwasher, it'll be fine.

Most reverb pedals are computers unless they have a spring inside

This just tells us that it might as well be a computer plugin.

@@Patrick-pv9pe they made it a plugin actually. $190 or something

Learn something new every day, thanks@@ZachariahConnor

It's a DSP which is not the same as a general purpose computer, even though it's programmable.

I don't think it's that egregious of an error as the distances are small and the conductivity of the grounded parts is very high.

Since there is a very fast processor on the board and the switching times are pretty fast (sub-nanosecond), having the parallel grounding helps the high frequency shielding and most importantly static discharge immunity - having the multiple grounds probably reduces the chance that hitting the box with a static zap (even just touching it during a show) causes the DSP to reset or crash. I have similar issues with automotive ECMs, I end up trying different grounding combinations to get the best performance for EMI and ESD testing. All-analogue pedals won’t have that constraint.