Strymon NightSky Time-Warped Reverberator | Reverb Tone Report 

Sounds like me with my Echosystem lol

And that's why the jrad boing exists and it's amazing

I’ve never felt so attacked by a comment.

Im with you, after months tweaking and learning and generally obsessing with it, flash forward six months and I am just on the Flint again. Yet can’t resist...

That was me and the Blue Sky AND the El Cap

its basically a big sky just with more ways of presets and adjustments

In the naaaame of JEEEEEZZUZZZZZ

Lol I thought of using it in my next church gig after I bought the pedal

Haha, I was just thinking the same. He's a great player

What would a live Andy concert be like.man 🙀🔥

Another great RU-vidr demo'er, though mostly guitars not fx, is Greg Koch. Formidable player. I found him in videos for Fano guitars. He's hilarious too (if goofing about's your kinda thing) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-79vLhNJWaXA.html

Why though? There are so many other reverbs and the tricks this one does are just meh.

If you can dodge the raiders I hear that one of the local supermarkets still has instamash.

Just got a pedal with 20 settings. Honestly would have rather bought a tremolo pedal with 2 knobs

Yeah exactly. I feel like the only thing that has to do with music and deserves to sit your ass down and learn every single feature of it is an analog synth

As someone who spends a lot of time making spaceship sounds, there are enough reverbs on the market and I don't find much special about this one. It's not bad, but it's just a new box of tricks that don't really impress me.

@@daemonelectricity I know. And Strymon stuff usually does impress me. I LOVE my Big Sky.

@@bradcarroll3719 Yeah, I like my El Capistan.

Drive section, especially.

Harshhhhh

So true

Didn't have to do eventide like that 😂

Not really. Blackhole is significantly cheaper and the H9 can already do most of the more musical things this pedal can do. Only real benefit of this pedal are the knobs.

Night sky = $450, Blackhole =$350

pourspelang I agree. And lots of my comment is me. I'm just not that creative with electronics to want to tweak that many things to create a sound. I get crazy option paralysis. I'm the kind of guy that would rather stack two more simple pedals than use the Night Sky. I'm very jealous of the "shoe gazers" out there than excel with these but I'd rather just play than know turn. I love my Walrus Fathom. I don't have a Slo but I feel stacked with it I could do a vast majority of this minus the sequencer and much more simply. But I also like good quality sounds that compliment the guitar but not overtake it. This Night Sky is it's own instrument. Very very cool. Just not something I'm dying to have.

This should be a much more popular opinion.

Also unpopular opinion; it sucks, pass

@@circadevices Fathom, Slo, Chase Bliss Dark World Reverb are all more interesting sounding reverbs than this.

Musicianship gets lost the more we rely on stuff like this. At least mine does. I just got rid of everything but a simple reverb and delay. Makes me make better music.

Oh man you just ruined those pedal for me 😂😂

Honestly, the Earthquaker Devices Afterneath module is a better option for modular enthusiasts. Strymon is using the same 'experimental reverberator" line that Earthquaker did in marketing materials and after listening to these demos I would consider them similar enough. 4 inputs with attenuverters is a much better option than an on-board sequencer and LFO. And it's cheaper. But that's just my opinion.

@@Zinfidel1 Magneto is stereo, but otherwise i'd agree

@@Attacus3 Sure, though a little different from the space-y reverb wash Nightsky and Afterneath are aiming for. I'm a fan of Afterneath's explosion of delay lines: it can do reverbs or sound granular delay-like or somewhere between. It'll even self-oscillate into a usable oscillator which can be used with a V/O input. Damn it's fun. But they all have character. Afterneath and Magneto are definitely worth getting for synths. And Afterneath doesn't have stereo (it has "pseudo-stereo" but stereo is possible with the right tools in your rack.

While I agree that this pedal, with its implantation of envelope generators, low frequency oscillators and pitch sequencing, does embody some common attributes of modular synthesis, it’s apparent lack of voltage control means that it’s not all that compatible with a eurorack system other than as an end-of-chain effect. Many modular users will already own dedicated envelope generators, LFOs and sequencers, meaning a module such as the Earthquaker Afterneath, or indeed Make Noise Echophon/Mimeophon/Erbe Verb for example, would arguably be more competitive in terms of form factor and how easily they can be integrated into an existing modular system. Stereo is also a relatively recent phenomenon in the eurorack format, so not necessarily a compelling reason to invest in this unit.

people won't be people when they hear this sound...

Miss that band

@Mi Movil $430

What do you think it should cost?

asynchronicity idk, good question, i feel like i would spend 300$ on this used in a couple years and that would be worth it as a recording/improvising tool

Grant Meyer I agree that it’s definitely more of a studio tool - very few people will gig with this probably. Still, in the grand scheme of things the difference in price between your expectations and reality is not huge.. I just spent that amount the other night eating out with my wife.

asynchronicity hahah well that’s your budget not mine

That’s why you combine them

Haha for real.

🤣

Ever try Crank?

How about propane?

I tell you hwhat!

I have lots of boxes for making goofy noises exclusively. Tensor, Particle, Thermae, MOOD, Dark World Reverb, Data Corrupter, etc. This doesn't even appeal to me in the slightest. It's Stymon's "Fellow Kids Reverb."

......and even goofier noises!

Jonathan Frieze Maybe 50 bucks

Wonder if that was intentional or just a happy accident. Great tune and perhaps the most obscure cut from Moving Pictures.

I came here looking for this comment!

It ends when you say it ends.

Better off getting Space than their Black Hole pedal... Serious waste of money for that one effect...

You are missing out on some of the best bread and butter pedals

Some of the sounds on my time line, bigsky, and mobius are anything but traditional,

Yeha no kidding I want to make the guitar sound like weird shit

Among all the other reverb, and man, there are a lot, this is the one you want?

I concur... Right there with you. It's that sequencer/voltage stores with glissando and resonant filters that pushed it over the cliff, so to say.

Thank you

@Trunk McEight i can see applications for a one sided working toaster.

This is indeed a weird new pedal. I see no reason to change my bigsky to this.

@Trunk McEight Wanna go we can go

i love it cos it's more versatile than both

It's cool , but I think you would need an extra set of hands for using it in a live set-up , synth player's are going to love it .

He plays his clean tone at 3:42 …

Jazzmaster Ultra

More of a wink than a nod but glad you enjoyed it!

@@AndyDemos we all always do. Your demos are always must-watch RU-vid. My better half isn't as much of a fan of the gear piling up in our house after I watch your show though.... haha

I have a Kemper, and it is true the reverb update is freaking amazing, more than what people think or expected, reverbs and delays are perfect, but I am getting this pedal too... I think this pedal can do a few things that the Kemper can't, to be more specific I think it can do EQD Rainbow machine, EQD Afterneath and Step Sequencer... I guess...

What??? Kemper reverbs don't come close to this... I have both...

@@ShaighJosephson and seven months later, we’ve had roughly 4 updates on the Kemper… I sold the Strymons and bought a HX Stomp, which compliments the Kemper nicely, while also providing competitive reverbs and delays. Seems a lot of guys, including myself, fall for the Strymon hype.

HMMMM......🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

?????

BUT.....does it do Disco??

Easy to tweak with the toes...that’s why I play barefoot.

I was thinking that too. I had a Zoia and got into it a bit but I just don’t have the time for all of that programming and the touchscreen was so small it really hurt my eyes

Nice try with the BS... Zoia and Polyeffects can't emulate the NightSky... Talking crap...

@@ShaighJosephson yes it can if you know how. Will it sound exactly the same? No, but functionality will be the same. It might even be better. No BS

The Black Hole pedal totally sucks, IMO... Better to get it in the Space pedal with all their other reverb algorythms...

This is exactly what I think.