Hi Pete, I know that I am late to the party on this video. I just received my Compadre to put in front of my Iridium and I must commend you and the Strymon team for an excellent set of offerings. I have a Volante in the chain as well. What was missing for me was something with a bit of push, but not a distortion pedal or a fuzz pedal. I watched your videos on both the Riverside and the Sunset, and believe that the Sunset will address my use cases in a wider fashion, so I placed my order today. Thank you for excellent product demos that are not about your ability and instead focus on the deliverables of the product. Sincerely appreciated.
This is probably the "best" demonstration of pedal I have seen...the explanation of how the pedal works, the demonstration of how the pedal works and sounds and the musicianship are all excellent! Many thanks.
Other gear reviewers / influencers : "Oooh this sound... Warm, buttery, gnarly, rubbery, nutty, warbly, cling-clangy, roary..." Shred Shred Shred Pete:"this happens because of the square waves that the circuit generates. Hence you get the dynamics which sound like this.. And when you stack em, the lows complement the mids and highs like so... " Be like Pete.
With a Favorite Switch you basically have a whole new bank of A, B, A&B settings. It stores everything, so any new knob or switch positions. It's like having 2 Sunset pedals with a total of 6 settings you can call up on the fly. I have no idea why they don't detail this in the demo or in the manual but it's a pretty significant feature. In short you get... A B A+B Fav A Fav B Fav A+B
Strymon awesomeness in a pedal, simply no need to look elsewhere, I’ve had hundreds of pedals, and nothing imo beats Strymon, the search is over lol Timeline, BigSky and Sunset,Heavenly trio,keep up the great work 🤘
Four months ago I commented on this video. I was impressed by how well thought out it is, AND, that Pete didn’t play too much. A pedal demo is supposed to be about the pedal, not the player. If I want to hear you play, I’ll buy your CD. What I did for real was buy was this pedal. Got it on my board. PS kudos to Sweetwater. They provide an excellent service.
Thank you Richard. It's so great to hear the positive feedback and we completely agree that Sweetwater is great! If you post any videos using your Sunset please let us know. Would love to listen :)
This looks like the pedal the world was expecting the Riverside to be. Cant see anyone paying for the Riverside over the Sunset. This pedal just does everything from clean boost, mid gain, transparent drive to fuzz and filth. Fantastic design and amazing flexibility. I agree with chaz32 Dan will be pulling his "ecstasy" face with this one. Mick would probably still prefer a TS.
I got a riverside first. Then a sunset.. they are really different pedals and work amazing together. To me the riverside feels like a quartet of 12ax 7s with lots of fine tuning of gain and tone. The sunset feels more like a few gain pedals in one. I use the treble boost and hard modes from a to b then into riverside.. and a maxxon 808 in front it all. Its gain bliss man. Truly joyful
This is the kind of nerdery I live for. As much as I love review videos from my long-haired using-this-in-the-trench brethren, I wish EVERY pedal would give me a demo this specific, clear, teachnical, and precise, right from one of the people who invented it.
One of the best pedal demonstrations I have seen, with both rhythm and lead examples demo'd for almost every possible configuration. Well done! It may be that Strymon HAS built the ultimate overdrive pedal. The flexibility and possibilities of this pedal make me think I should have three or four on my pedal board.
The thing I Love about Strymon is the Units are Versatile and always give you options and Different combinations of options and this Unit just like the ones I have =FLINT ,EL CAP, DECO offers even more combinations on Gain/Drive - and the Sound is Bang on the Money, Petes Demos are fascinating stuff no stone is un turned with These products I am a Big fan … Some say they are expensive but as the old saying goes you get what you pay for and to my Ears they are Sonically Bang on and Hard to Beat if at all …Great Suff ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
To anyone planning on purchasing this pedal, Before you buy be warned that you cannot turn the volume all the way down if the gain is turned up past noon. If the gain is up and you turn the volume knobs all the way down and then activate either side of the pedal, there will still be a jump in volume. You cannot turn the volume knobs all the way down for no sound or for very little sound to match all your other pedals on your pedal board. Strymon says this is by design.
Lol! I think of this guy as "Professor Strymon". Other guys talk about whether the tone is Plexi, Tweed, Tubescreamer etc. Professor Strymon talks about the "gain topology".
... it sounds so beautiful ! .... I own the Big Sky as my first Strymon pedal, I recently bought it two Frydays ago and I love it so much - I already want also this Sunset - of course , the most beautiful dream is to have a pedalboard full only with all your Strymon pedals ! ...
I just got the Riverside and am absolutely in love with it. Now this seems so amazing that I'm considering replacing it... Although I think I got the sound for my style already.
The dog...he has a beautiful guitar, the pedal is real fun to use its multilayers that way you end up having 2 to 3 pedals into one....pretty clever Strymon...as usual
I really like the layout of the pedal quite a bit. The "2 drives and a boost per side" format along with the order switch gives a lot of good options. Good thinking, as always!
You guys are geniouses. Just going to put that out there. Unfortunately I don't own any of your pedals (yet) but I've watched videos of pretty much all of them and I don't know any company that makes cooler, better sounding pedals. They're just incredible and you do so many neat things. Someday I'm gonna have a bunch of strymon pedals on my board. Mark my words.
Thank you so much!!! Can't wait to hear when you get your first one. Also keep an eye out on our newsletter or social media posts, because we do contests every so often and it's always worth entering.
Hey Pete, I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your demos. You explain everything very clearly with good examples for each feature. Your playing is short and to the point. Keep up the good work. This pedal is what I've been waiting for, for some time now. I'll be getting mine soon. The one feature that I wish it did have, would be for it to have two separate ins and outs so that you could still run each pedal individually if you wanted to. This way, for the guys that use a programmable switcher, you would have even more flexibility. Does this sound feasible or even make sense? In any case, this pedal is amazing!
Hi, Thank you so much for the compliment! Appreciate that. Unfortunately we don't discuss what is or isn't in the works, but like hearing your feedback and are always listening :)
This must be the best OD pedal ever built? In terms of all analogue sound and functionality!! This is stupendous!! I'm not going to have any money after this year!! Bought the timeline and flint, got my eyes on the compressor/ boost pedal and now this!! FML!!
There is some strange magic in a fact, that when strymon makes a pedal with 2 buttons , you discover , after the purchase, that it comes with 50 pages PDF manual to describe functionality of 10 pedals embedded in it, that are operated with these two damn buttons.... It always feels like kid unwraping mysterious gifts at Christmas)). Ordered mine in less then 12 hours after watching this video. My personal consumerism record.
@@reubensolly2237 it could, but they could shave off a fair bit since they’ve already done the r&d for the circuits and stuff, I’d be interested to see that, with the iridium and stuff it’d be all you need
Everything you could ever want in an overdrive fuzz distortion and boost pedal Christmas is coming me hoping my wife is feeling the love for her guitar playing nerd
Strymon is definitely buzzing all around the guitar community amongst rock, blues and heavy metal players a like. I’m a huge fan of overdrive sounds and todays options are almost limitless when it comes to flavor and color (sonically). I need to grab myself a Strymon pedal for my pedal board, it’s like a birthday present to myself sort of? Lol point being these are amazing sounding pedals and are quality pedals to say the least.
Thanks for using a real amp in the demo. Tones sound fantastic. I'm considering adding this to my board because it has midi control now. Midi is a hugely important feature to me. I would love to see midi added to the Flint and Deco. I would instantly rebuy those two if you did.
Excellent distortion pedal, has a gate too and favorite patch footswitch I plan to get. Got the Sunset yesterday to complete my virtual guitar pedal board (I use the Strymon boxes for my studio work and guitar samples as a keyboard player). Sunset drives great volume boost needed into my Timeline, followed by my Mobius for effects finally to the Big Sky reverb. I am shifting from only computer plug in guitar effects to experimenting with this external effects concept and it is working really well and sounding amazing. My analog console's stereo bus does hit an SSL compressor and API EQ which doesn't hurt either to warm up and fill out the guitar samples. But the Strymon pedals work really well in front of the mix buss processing. I hope to make a video showing this off as I have not seen anything like it on You Tube exploring what is possible with sampled guitars and Strymon pedals.
TC fanboy here buut YES ur right XD... except products would be much much more expensive than both my guitar, amp and all pedals i have together... squared xd.
Or if Strymon made an OD/amp sim/modeller/profiler in the size of and with the diversity of the Mobius/Timeline/BigSky, midi controllable and all that... That would probably put everyone else out of business.
The best part of this demo... he is demoing the pedal, not his playing. A few chords or notes should be all you need to get an idea what a pedal sounds like. I get so tired of dudes shredding, just showing off. Or worse, dudes who can’t play noodling on and on. Anyway, it’s a well thought out design. Very versatile. And he does a great job of explaining the pedal. I’m going to buy one.
Here's to hoping they come out with a Big Box Overdrive/Distortion Box like their BigSky, TimeLine, and Möbius. Those 4 paired with my midi controller and I could literally have everything I need in 4 pedals. 🤔😉 C'mon Pete and Strymon peeps... make this happen!!!
Thanks Evan for the feedback. We don't discuss what is or isn't in the works, so I can't deny nor confirm, but really appreciate hearing your thoughts :)
Hey. You think you guys could do a comparison between this pedal and the riverside? Playing same licks or progressions for each pedal. I'd love to hear cuz I know I need one of them?
My next request is a combo pedal incorporating 60s/70s style tones, Dallas Rangemaster, Vox Tone Bender, Sola Sound Tone Bender etc. Think Mick Ronson, Brian May, Jimmy Page, Marc Bolan, Tony Iommi etc.Happy to test them when you knock them out, my credit card is awaiting
Liked this much more then Riverside, still not exactly what I like, but I like that Strymon steps hard in this game! Keep up the good work guys! Cheers :) P.S. Actually watched 'till the end and changed my mind when heard germanium into 2-stage drive. Gave me strong Dumbl-esque kind of endless sustain vibes. This thing is awesome!
Fun fact: Strymon in Swahili means "we'll trade you bells and whistles if you empty out your bank account. deal?" I know, I couldn't believe it either. So many words, plus a question mark, all out of 2 syllables. Crazy
It's time to think about a fuzz family pedal. And a distortion too. Maybe a big one with all the possibilities (riverside, sunset, fuzz, distortion, deco and much more) these pedal with the other three big one's from strymon makes the perfect e most versitile pedalboard. Keep on the great work you've been doing
Hi Robert, I will pass that along to the team. I'm pretty sure they are planning on a video for that, but I'll confirm that it would be appreciated :) Thanks!
about half way through this video, I started itemizing all of my drive pedals to see if I could sell them in order to get this guy. this is a dream! Am I correct in thinking that with the Fav switch and the expression input, you could have up to six "sounds" available to you?
+DKSouthpaw With a Favorite switch, you can access another set of sounds with both A and B channels. This provides you with A, B, and A+B sounds for your non-Favorite setting, and a separate set of A, B, and A+B sounds for your Favorite setting to get 6 different sounds. Then you can use an expression pedal to adjust settings for all of these sounds.
This one makes the 6th Strymon pedal on my board (not even counting the Timeline that I pulled off to make room for the Deco the Cloudburst and the Dig. It’s totally ruined the eclectic boutique pedal look I was trying to cultivate. At least I SOUND good now though. I might try to paint a llama or a fish on a couple of them at some point.
When designing this pedal we took every awsome and kick ass overdrive and jammed it all in one pedal. Then made it stackable so you could gorge your selves on a tonal smorgasbord till all the awsome makes you blow up or puts you in a coma. Hahahaha
So I actually bought a Sunset instead and I am in love with it! It will have to hold the space until the BigSky/Timeline size super gain pedal comes out ;) hopefully sooner than later?
Hope you have been enjoying exploring your Sunset. Thank you for the feedback :) We don't discuss what is or isn't in the works, but love hearing your thoughts.
Both are really great for getting high gain tones in different ways, Riverside with the large amounts of gain and EQ options on tap, and Sunset with the ability to stack drives :)
I really, really, really wish this pedal had separate outputs for each drive side with the option to just run in mono if you want. Essentially this and the Wampler Dual Fusion need to make a baby.
For my taste the basic clean tone from the amp is too bassy, sorry, moreover the tone knob on the pedal is often rolled back when increasing the gain thus making the sound further bassy with a very little or no "air" left. It's just my taste, I'm sorry again, I mean: it's ok to show that option but it would be nice to listen to the brighter options too...or am I wrong? Anyway... the pedal is a very fine piece of machinery and Pete is a fine guy and a skillful sound designer and engineer.
