Strymon is an American manufacturer of audio equipment, owned by Damage Control Engineering. They are best known for their line of high end

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

effects pedal An effects unit or effects pedal is an electronic device that alters the sound of a musical instrument or other audio source through audio signal processing. Common effects include distortion/overdrive, often used with electric guitar in ele ...

s which use a mixture of

analog circuit Analogue electronics ( en-US, analog electronics) are electronic systems with a continuously variable signal, in contrast to digital electronics where signals usually take only two levels. The term "analogue" describes the proportional relati ...

ry and

digital signal processing Digital signal processing (DSP) is the use of digital processing, such as by computers or more specialized digital signal processors, to perform a wide variety of signal processing operations. The digital signals processed in this manner are ...

. The company is based in

Westlake Village, California Westlake Village is a city in Los Angeles County on its western border with Ventura County. The City of Westlake Village incorporated in 1981 becoming the 82nd municipality of Los Angeles County.Baker, Pam (2002). ''Thousand Oaks Westlake Vill ...

, and manufactures products in the United States.

Products

The Strymon product line includes

distortion In signal processing, distortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic) of a signal. In communications and electronics it means the alteration of the waveform of an information-bearing signal, such as an audio signal ...

delay Delay (from Latin: dilatio) may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Delay 1968'', a 1981 album by German experimental rock band Can * ''The Delay'', a 2012 Uruguayan film People * B. H. DeLay (1891–1923), American aviator and acto ...

reverb Reverberation (also known as reverb), in acoustics, is a persistence of sound, after a sound is produced. Reverberation is created when a sound or signal is reflected causing numerous reflections to build up and then decay as the sound is abso ...

chorus Chorus may refer to: Music * Chorus (song) or refrain, line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse * Chorus effect, the perception of similar sounds from multiple sources as a single, richer sound * Chorus form, song in which all verse ...

flanger Flanging is an audio effect produced by mixing two identical signals together, one signal delayed by a small and (usually) gradually changing period, usually smaller than 20 milliseconds. This produces a swept comb filter effect: peaks and not ...

and

compressor A compressor is a mechanical device that increases the pressure of a gas by reducing its volume. An air compressor is a specific type of gas compressor. Compressors are similar to pumps: both increase the pressure on a fluid and both can transp ...

Effects pedals

* blueSky - Plate, room and spring reverb, with modulation and shimmer modes * BRIGADIER - Bucket-brigade driven analog simulated

* El Capistan -

DSP DSP may refer to: Computing * Digital signal processing, the mathematical manipulation of an information signal * Digital signal processor, a microprocessor designed for digital signal processing * Yamaha DSP-1, a proprietary digital signal ...

-driven pedal that recreates the sound and characteristics of several

tape echo Delay is an audio signal processing technique that records an input signal to a storage medium and then plays it back after a period of time. When the delayed playback is mixed with the live audio, it creates an echo-like effect, whereby the or ...

machines * Flint - Dual pedal that emulates vintage

tremolo In music, ''tremolo'' (), or ''tremolando'' (), is a trembling effect. There are two types of tremolo. The first is a rapid reiteration: * Of a single Musical note, note, particularly used on String instrument#Bowing, bowed string instrument ...

and

circuits * Ola - DSP-driven, bucket-brigade style

and

vibrato Vibrato (Italian language, Italian, from past participle of "wikt:vibrare, vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch (music), pitch. It is used to add expression to vocal and instrumental music. ...

effects pedal * Orbit - DSP-driven, bucket-brigade style

pedal * Lex - DSP-driven pedal that recreates the sound of a

rotary speaker A rotary woofer is a subwoofer-style loudspeaker which reproduces very low frequency content by using a conventional speaker voice coil's motion to change the pitch of an impeller rotating at a constant speed. The pitch of the fan blades is contro ...

and horn * Tap Favorite - Preset select and tap tempo switch * TimeLine - DSP-driven

pedal with 12 delay types, numerous parameters, looping capability, and preset storage. Features MIDI in & out * Mobius -

Modulation In electronics and telecommunications, modulation is the process of varying one or more properties of a periodic waveform, called the ''carrier signal'', with a separate signal called the ''modulation signal'' that typically contains informatio ...

pedal with 12 mod types, numerous parameters, and preset storage, features MIDI in & Out * BigSky -

Reverb Reverberation (also known as reverb), in acoustics, is a persistence of sound, after a sound is produced. Reverberation is created when a sound or signal is reflected causing numerous reflections to build up and then decay as the sound is abso ...

pedal with 12 reverb types, numerous parameters, and preset storage, features MIDI in & out * DECO - DSP-driven dual pedal that emulates tape saturation and a double track tape machine Strymon El Capistan 8455

* MultiSwitch - An extended controller for the TimeLine, Mobius, and BigSky pedals * DIG - Simultaneous, rack voiced, dual integrated digital

* Riverside - A hybrid

JFET The junction-gate field-effect transistor (JFET) is one of the simplest types of field-effect transistor. JFETs are three-terminal semiconductor devices that can be used as electronically controlled switches or resistors, or to build amplifiers. ...

/DSP

drive Drive or The Drive may refer to: Motoring * Driving, the act of controlling a vehicle * Road trip, a journey on roads Roadways Roadways called "drives" may include: * Driveway, a private road for local access to structures, abbreviated "drive" ...

pedal * Sunset - DSP-driven dual overdrive pedal with all-analog JFET boost stage * Volante - DSP-driven delay pedal that recreates the sound and characteristics of magnetic drum echo, tape echo and studio reel-to-reel echo machines, with looping capability and preset storage, features MIDI in & out *Iridium - Amp & IR Cab pedal. Strymon's unique take on amp modeling. Rather than try to be everything to all players, the Iridium focuses on clean-to-crunch amp textures, with models of the Fender Deluxe Reverb, Vox AC30TB and Marshall Plexi, driven by the company's new Matrix Modeling. *NightSky - A reverberant synthesis workstation, with real-time continuous control of reverb pitch/processing rate/core size, harmonics, and a synth-like resonant filter with multiple modulation waveshapes, plus a step sequencer with variable glide. *Compadre – Dual pedal with compression and boost, with two different options for compressor voicing, as well as clean and dirty boost circuits *Zelzah – A “multidimensional phaser" with two sides, a 4-stage side with settings ranging from phasing to vibrato, and a 6-stage side providing phasing, flanging, chorus.

Eurorack modules

*StarLab - Stereo time-warped reverberator *Magneto – Stereo multi-head tape delay and looper *AA1 Level Shifter – Amplifier and attenuator, amplifies guitar signals to modular system level

Power supplies

*Zuma – Power supply with 9 isolated 500 mA outputs, of which two are adjustable between 9/12/18 V *Zuma R300 – Power supply with 5 isolated 500 mA outputs, of which one is adjustable between 9/12/18 V. Ultra-low profile design *Ojai – Power supply with 5 isolated 500 mA outputs. *Ojai R30 – Power supply with 5 isolated 500 mA outputs, of which two are adjustable between 9/12/18 V

Audio Effects Pluguns

*BigSky Plugin - a plugin version of their popular BigSky reverb.

Discontinued Products

* Favorite switch - Preset select switch and replaced with ''MiniSwitch'' * OB.1 - Analog optical

and clean boost pedal

References

External links

Official website
Electronics companies of the United States Music equipment manufacturers Guitar effects manufacturing companies Companies based in Westlake Village, California {{US-manufacturing-company-stub