NEW Strymon Mobius multi-mod pedal

Post by **Mike** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 3:50 pm

http://damagecontrolusa.com/products/glass-nexus/

Concretebadger · Post by **Concretebadger** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 4:24 pm

Nice! I'm currently saving up for a multi-FX box for modulation...

@Mike: is that basically the same device then, what with the two companies being affiliated and all?

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:47 pm

"Glass Nexus has been discontinued.
We recently decided to discontinue our existing line of dual vacuum tube effects pedals and focus our attention on our Strymon line of gear."

Post by **Mike** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 1:02 pm

A lot of Strymon stuff is directly lifted from Damage Control boxes (DSP wise) that were big and ugly and everyone hated.

They dropped the tubes and made the graphics TGP friendly, upped the price and sat back to count the readies.

Great effects, but the heart of these are boxes noone gave two fucks about in a different case.

stilwel · Post by **stilwel** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:11 pm

Sometimes form factor can make all the difference.

I'm happy to see they learned from their mistakes....and that they are having success now.

And we are all the benefactors.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 5:13 pm

stilwel wrote:And we are all the benefactors.

Beneficiaries. Benefactors are the ones who hand out the benefit.

stilwel · Post by **stilwel** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:06 pm

NickS wrote:
stilwel wrote:And we are all the benefactors.
Beneficiaries. Benefactors are the ones who hand out the benefit.

Yes, beneficiaries. Sorry, it was early and I got about 3 hours sleep total with my newborn son keeping us up most of the night.

Ugh.

MrJamesBrown · Post by **MrJamesBrown** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:16 pm

I spent an hour today playing the Timeline and couldn't get a sound I liked out of it to be honest... may have been the store amp, but it was not at all living up to the hype...

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 9:17 pm

stilwel wrote:I got about 3 hours sleep total with my newborn son keeping us up most of the night.

Ah. Been through that a few times, not something I miss.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 10:18 pm

They still look like pish. Stick it in a BB enclosure with some Mustang knobs and I'd be on it.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 11:32 pm

VALUE
push (param)
hold (global)

Oh, great.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 12:46 am

Truth be told, I think there's probably a market for a delay pedal that any given time you stand on it, you can't quite be sure what the fuck it's going to do or what the settings are for.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:57 am

+1, it's like Quantum Leap or Sliders or summat

gonz · Post by **gonz** » Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:54 pm

MrJamesBrown wrote:I spent an hour today playing the Timeline and couldn't get a sound I liked out of it to be honest... may have been the store amp, but it was not at all living up to the hype...

I had similar experience - found the Timeline's tone to be sterile and lifeless, no matter what delay mode I tried. Modulation made me ill. Over-hyped pedal. Amazing feature set not matched by quality tone. What a waste! Was big disappointment. I brought along my trusty long-serving EHX Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai delay pedal which I found to be more spacious sounding, more transparent than the Timeline. Compared this pedal to dozens of delay pedals including Empress Super Delay, Diamond Memory Lane II, Eventide Timefactor, TC Nova, EHX Deluxe Memory Man, Replica, Sub Decay something or other, Retrosonic something or other, Montavillian Delay, Aqua-Puss (too short 300msec for me to use). I still prefer the EHX SMMWH delay pedal. AT $220 CAD way better tone and richer feature set. I really like being able to control volume of repeats, how they decay. The 30 second looper is icing on the cake. Will replace that soon with Boomerang III but for now a decent 30 sec. looper. My chain, which works well for me, is guitar (gibson nighthawk or SG or Sterling by Music Man Silo 30) ->MXR Analog Chorus ->MXR Carbon Copy (usually no feedback, modulation on, blend around 40%, delay around 9:00) -:EHX Cathedral Reverb (plate, blend and reverb around 4/10)->EHX SMMWH (usually multi-tap delay)-> Laney Lionheart 5 watt 1x12" combo and Fender Princeton Reverb. Record and play with this setup and add Boss Super Overdrive in front of effects for recording purposes). The effects/guitars/amps work well together to create rich 3D spacious sound. Love the ping pong delay effect achieved with SMMWH using stereo outs into 2 amps. Very cool!