Strymon Bigsky

[Cody Coombs]

Hi all,

I have a Strymon Timeline and a Strymon Bigsky that I had found a great combination using the presets already made in both with a touch of delay and just the right amount of reverb going straight into the amp. Last night. I decided to try them in my effects loop of my toneblock 202. (Send into the timeline, chain to Bigsky and return back to the amp). It seemed to be a bit too dry, so I put it back in my regular chain all in front of the amp. The issue is it seemed to be a bit too dry even after that. I don’t know if it’s my ears, nothing changed as far as dials and settings.. so I guess I have a two part question.

1.) do you all ever hear a great sound one day and the next day it isn’t so good?

After hearing the differences I’m going to create my own reverb settings for short, medium and long. (Fast songs and slow songs should have a little more or less reverb I imagine)

2.) what settings do you all like for your reverbs? Hall, room, plate, etc. And what about the decay and predelay? How do you all like to set those? I believe the Bigsky settings are in milliseconds.


I understand that both of these pedals are very much overkill as far as a simple reverb and delay. They sure are fun to mess around with though!

Thanks in advance,
Cody

[Gordon Hartin]

Hey Cody,

Do you have a cable tester that measures both connectivity and resistance? You'd be surprised how much your sound can change just by having an different cable in the chain.

Gordon

[Cody Coombs]

Actually I did replace my patch cables recently. As well as a few of the cables that go to the steel, pedalboard and amp. Would that be enough to change the wetness of the reverb?

[Dave Campbell]

first off; yes, absolutely. one day my sound is amazing and the next it's blah and nothing has changed. i think that's a pretty common scenario.

i use a uafx golden reverberator for reverb (through a session 400 or two).
i generally use the plate setiting. when i use the plate i use a small amount of pre delay. i set the mix so that i can hear it, and the decay so that things don't run together too much. i'll mess with the mix and decay a bit from song to song. sometimes i'l use the spring setting to shake things up a bit or when i feel like i can't dial in the plate the way i want.

i use an empress tape delay. set it for a very light repeat (and then haze) and tap it to the beat so that generally i have a quarter note delay happening.it's barely audible most of the time. sometimes i like to space out a bit (who doesn't?)

i think it is good practice to be wary of too much much of either. if you're playing great you don't need much!

[Len Amaral]

Lately I use a very light reverb. Someone mentioned a while back that Curley Chalker used very little reverb so I decided to try the same. Stabbing chords and single note runs seem to project more. For slow songs I use a Boss tape delay pedal with a few repeats.

[Ron Pruter]

Yes Cody. First thing that came to my mind was, how old are those ears of yours? Aging ears seem to be pretty fickle.(Maybe not the best word but you know what I mean.) Ron