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Strymon Bass Club
- Thread starter IngloriousOz
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Heya! Thanks @IngloriousOz for starting this thread and for the PM. Strymon makes great stuff and I love my Mobius. I'm generally a club avoider so you don't have to add me to the list. However I'm happy to participate in the thread and hopefully I'll see and hear some cool poop, and learn a thing or two.
Besides the Mobius I've also had a Timeline BlueSky and El Capitan in the past and I am always wondering about the Deco.
My latest board shot
The Mobius is where all of my modulations come from other than filters which I get from the Xerograph and deFormer, although the filters in the Mobius are pretty great too. I don't use the modulations on my H9 because to me they are not half as good as the Mobius.
About a month ago Strymon posted an interesting Mobius preset for the Quadrature machine using an envelope on the carrier frequency. Worth checking out if you missed it: Invalid Link Removed
I'll put a little polish on my own presets and maybe share some at a later time.
Besides the Mobius I've also had a Timeline BlueSky and El Capitan in the past and I am always wondering about the Deco.
My latest board shot
The Mobius is where all of my modulations come from other than filters which I get from the Xerograph and deFormer, although the filters in the Mobius are pretty great too. I don't use the modulations on my H9 because to me they are not half as good as the Mobius.
About a month ago Strymon posted an interesting Mobius preset for the Quadrature machine using an envelope on the carrier frequency. Worth checking out if you missed it: Invalid Link Removed
I'll put a little polish on my own presets and maybe share some at a later time.
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I'm not a member, so I know I'm not eligible for even asking but if I could only ask one thing it would be to try to make this thread less about photos and more about sounds and clips.
The reason I'm asking is that I think that as far as pedals go, these Strymons are pretty much "out there" in terms of price, complexity, and sound-pallet, and although I really like effects, this combination puts these strictly in the do-not-buy zone, at least for me at the current time, but OTOH, I would really like to hear what people are doing with them, and then, maybe... GAS will take over
Just saying... I'm pretty sure there are many like me around TB
Now I really want to hear your band as well! Post some videos and soundclouds! Very stoked on your Lakland and how you've got it setup.
I love that necessity has forced your band to innovate, I can't think of a better context to have a Blue Sky to use live or in the studio. Thats really what I love most about these Strymon boxes-they are so musical, hi-fi, versatile and expressive like gasoline for my creative flames.
Well said!
Cheers.
Say, didn't you have a TWA-GD at one stage? It's not something I use all that much on bass, but when I do... ha ha.
I really like using it alone, or going into a fuzz for a super thick, yet crunchy upper octave tone that'll feedback gently, and should you feed that into an oscillating delay it's a lot of fun for noise making.
Timeline covers the AD4096 you say? Huh.One of the attractions of analog delays for me are the way they oscillate, especially when you increase the repeats and let them run away. I'm a big fan of certain delays due to the way they degrade.
I've been looking at the DMMTT-1100/550 for the run-away oscillation feature hands-free, and the brighter nature of these delays may work better with bass.
Does the Timeline run away if you hold down the tap button?
Should you let it run away and bend over to fiddle with knobs like the mix and speed/rate, does it behave like an analog delay would, or does the preset/digi nature prevent this from sounding realistic? I mean, does changing the speed/rate knob during oscillation result in the oscillation increasing/decreasing pitch like an analog delay would, or do you get digital anomalies like the El Cap & Brigadier do?
I've seen some demo's of the Brig/El Cap that put me off for this reason...
Nice! Yeah I play both aswell, and currently in a 3-piece too, hence my choice in drives (Timmy/Barbershop) which work well with both.
I don't think I could get away with using delay with bass, if I was in a bigger band. We're all useful on various instruments, we're trying to talk our drummer into pulling out his mandolin at some stage in a set during a quiet instrumental section.
I tune a fair bit lower, CFA#D#, and aim for a pretty thick tone using flats, but I do leave the tone knob on my passives fairly open-ish. I guess this is why I'm not using reverb! Funnily enough though, when I plug in my guitars, I tend to run the gats with a completely open tone knob and only ever change the tone knobs on the Timmy, everything else stays the same (yay for small victories!)
Yep sure did! It lives with @frankegcbass nowadays, but before he took it off my hands I was loving the sounds I was getting out of it especially in tandem with a Phaser (Compact Faye Sing) and then the Mobius. Love that thing.
The Timeline indeed does have the "expand" oscillate function when you hold down the associated preset footswitch, it absolutely does behave like an analog delay when you fiddle with the speed and rate knobs (Plus you can add vinyl scratches to the LoFi machine!). I loved my AD4096 but I don't miss it one bit thanks to the Timeline.
Heya! Thanks @IngloriousOz for starting this thread and for the PM. Strymon makes great stuff and I love my Mobius. I'm generally a club avoider so you don't have to add me to the list. However I'm happy to participate in the thread and hopefully I'll see and hear some cool poop, and learn a thing or two.
Besides the Mobius I've also had a Timeline BlueSky and El Capitan in the past and I am always wondering about the Deco.
My latest board shot
The Mobius is where all of my modulations come from other than filters which I get from the Xerograph and deFormer, although the filters in the Mobius are pretty great too. I don't use the modulations on my H9 because to me they are not half as good as the Mobius.
About a month ago Strymon posted an interesting Mobius preset for the Quadrature machine using an envelope on the carrier frequency. Worth checking out if you missed it: Invalid Link Removed
I'll put a little polish on my own presets and maybe share some at a later time.
Thanks for sharing and thanks for the heads up on the Freak Minus preset! Your board looks great and I love where how you've got everything lined up, been hearing nothing but great things about the Count to Five's and I have to admit your D*A*M* Ezekiel reissue is making my mouth water a bit.
Are you using alot of your own custom made presets on the Mobius or have you been sticking to the pre-loaded ones and tweaking with those?
Please post some clips, would love to hear your amazing board in action!
Really tempting, there have been a few for sale on the classifieds over the years so they are out there. I have yet to read a review of the bass modded version...here is @bongomania 's great review on his site for anyone who is interested:
Strymon OB-1
In with a Lex. Great pedal. I use it with a B9/C9 organ machine.
Yes! Glad you're here, first one with the Lex so far. If you have any clips, videos or killer settings please share!
Mosfed #9
In with a bullet! I could barely see the Lex in there in that giant sea of awesome!
I don't do permanent boards. I like to change it up every few days. Too many cool pedals and configurations to commit. This is what I have goin today and it's phocking RaD!!
OK, here are a few clips... basically all live looped, so yah, there are gonna be some flubs in there! All sounds are played through my 6-string bass -signal chain: Blue Sky - El Cap - Deco- Boss RC-30 Looper - Apogee 1 - Garage Band
The slap-back is pretty cool for chords, haven't really played a lot of lower register with that kind of sound yet. Also used the Blue Sky, and a tiny bit of modulation from the Deco on the palm-muted bass line.
This one is more of an ambient non-metered bit where I tried to get a low-fi sound to counteract the clarity of the Strymon pedals by adjusting the output of my looper. Heavy on the El Cap.
And a primarily Deco clip here with some El Cap knob twiddling thrown in. I put a bit of tape saturation on the bass line trying to get a mild synth sound. The lead part uses both the tape saturation and chorus/flanging. The saturation knob was close to 3 o'clock, which is just shy of all the way open. I wouldn't usually use settings like this and it's pretty obvious that I don't have a good idea on how to work with these sounds just yet, but wanted to grab some low notes with heavy saturation to hopefully give an idea of how the pedal handles the low frequencies, turning off the modulation side at the end soloing just the Deco's tape saturation.
The slap-back is pretty cool for chords, haven't really played a lot of lower register with that kind of sound yet. Also used the Blue Sky, and a tiny bit of modulation from the Deco on the palm-muted bass line.
This one is more of an ambient non-metered bit where I tried to get a low-fi sound to counteract the clarity of the Strymon pedals by adjusting the output of my looper. Heavy on the El Cap.
And a primarily Deco clip here with some El Cap knob twiddling thrown in. I put a bit of tape saturation on the bass line trying to get a mild synth sound. The lead part uses both the tape saturation and chorus/flanging. The saturation knob was close to 3 o'clock, which is just shy of all the way open. I wouldn't usually use settings like this and it's pretty obvious that I don't have a good idea on how to work with these sounds just yet, but wanted to grab some low notes with heavy saturation to hopefully give an idea of how the pedal handles the low frequencies, turning off the modulation side at the end soloing just the Deco's tape saturation.
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Heya! Thanks @IngloriousOz for starting this thread and for the PM. Strymon makes great stuff and I love my Mobius. I'm generally a club avoider so you don't have to add me to the list. However I'm happy to participate in the thread and hopefully I'll see and hear some cool poop, and learn a thing or two.
Besides the Mobius I've also had a Timeline BlueSky and El Capitan in the past and I am always wondering about the Deco.
My latest board shot
The Mobius is where all of my modulations come from other than filters which I get from the Xerograph and deFormer, although the filters in the Mobius are pretty great too. I don't use the modulations on my H9 because to me they are not half as good as the Mobius.
About a month ago Strymon posted an interesting Mobius preset for the Quadrature machine using an envelope on the carrier frequency. Worth checking out if you missed it: Invalid Link Removed
I'll put a little polish on my own presets and maybe share some at a later time.
Your board is SO FRIGGEN AWESOME!!!
Here is a quick recording of the Strymon Deco featuring the Tape Saturation effect first, then the slap-back delay effect. First segment is clean bass, next is some tape sat., then a lot of tape sat., then stupid delay tricks. The saturation reminds me a lot of the sound you get when you do direct into a nice analog console and overdrive the input. BTW, this was recorded using a parallel effects loop. So some dry signal is mixed with the wet.
Bass: ACG Uber
Recording Interface: iConnect Audio4+
DAW: Windows 10, Presonus Studio 3
Bass: ACG Uber
Recording Interface: iConnect Audio4+
DAW: Windows 10, Presonus Studio 3
Been rocking two Strymons. The Dig and a Big Sky.
My signal chain...
Shure Wireless> Diamond Compressor> Digitech Whammy>Dark Glass B7K> Aguilar Agro> MXR Stereo Chorus> Ernie Ball Volume Pedal> Strymon DIG> Strymon Big Sky>> Mesa MPulse 600 and Genz Benz Shuttle Max 9.2.
Both Strymons are incredible pedals and I continue to discover more flavors and options all the time. Fantastic pedals for bass, guitar and keys!
Mobius, timeline, Bigsky with my aluminum EGC bass (which works great with delays and reverbs).
