Strymon Flint

[D.G.]

Yeah , they do nice demos. I have had 3 Strymon pedals and played them all. They All had the same flaw when it comes to the gain corection. It brightens up you sound and makes it harch.

This in all likelihood would be a buffer being kicked in -- which a good thing. It means your signal chain is being degraded by all of the cables and boxes in the path to the amp. When the buffer (i.e. the Strymon) is suddenly introduced, all of the treble bleed is rectified and your sound is much brighter.

Try this: put a good buffer (a quality clean boost pedal set to unity ought to work) first in line right after the guitar with a short quality cable -- like a George L's -- then use another longer cable out to the amp. Tune your amp and guitar to the sound with the buffer inline -- when on it should be practically indistinguishable from the sound of the same short cable going directly from the guitar to the amp. Then add the Strymon into the signal chain after the buffer, turn it on and chances are you'll hear NO tonal shift. I use an RC Booster or the boost side of a ZVex BoR for this purpose. I do NOT like Boss buffers as many of them color the sound, i.e. reduce treble.

People with large pedalboards often recommend the signal chain start with a buffer that is always on, followed by true-bypass pedals. Of course, buffer sensitive pedals like fuzzfaces and wahs need to come before the buffer.

OTOH, you might be one of those people who likes a degraded signal -- like Hendrix using coiled cables to reduce the treble hitting the amp.

[Hjalmiz]

Hi DG. Im not Talking about a signal loss issue due to pedals or cables. These pedals have a "knob second function boost" when blending wet/dry signal you Will have a signal loss issue. The boost is basicly a volume correction to not have a volume drop when using the effect. Thats greate.And sure its good for the big pedalboard signal loss thing in theory. But thats not what in talking about. When using the strymon(blue sky lets say) boost function even without the reverb mixed in your tone changes a LOT . Thats not strange realy but the sound of the boost is vierd. Or it very vierd To me anyways. Its not brightning as u Would expect. Its a hard allmost top conpressing thing that goes on with it. Its a bit like playing a Gibson with a to straight neck when u kick the pedal in but on higher volume .Ive Done every test possible and the fact remains. Now, this is not the case with the Strymon timeline for instance .

I have boost pedals that are very transparent and Some that are voiced to faten up the sound. But the strymon boost kills my sound. As i Said , the effects are nice but the way that the pedal changes my sound is not. I know a few people that gave up on them for the same reason. But hey, buy if u like them. I think there are Better pedals to buy out there.
If you try one out, let me know.
/H

[jorgemg1984]

New demo, if anyone cares

[feet]

not me, i already have one. if it helps, i think of them this way:

61 harm- phasey, throbby
63 tube- pulse-y, standard (sine)
65 photo- choppy (square)

60s- spring
70s- plate
80- hall

i tend to use the plate the most, but either the plate or spring works as my "always on" sound. the hall is fun at more exaggerated settings to get a more ambient, modulated sound. the plate works ok for that, too. i don't mess with it too much; i know what sounds i'm after and a quick flick can get me there. there is a lot to discover if you insist on that sort of thing. need to get a favorite switch so i can switch to a preset, but it isn't a huge deal.