Source Audio Pathways - Reverb & Tremolo

Seems a lot like "Strymon Flint on steroids". Good feature set and size. If I didn't already own a Flint V2 I'd be very interested in this.

The slapback and echo options are nice additions that are kind of par for the course for the kind of things you'd like.
 
I don't need this I don't need this I don't need this I don't need this.

Just sold my True Spring a couple of months ago. I always fall in love with these pedals, get them home, and within a couple of weeks (or days, even) I'm back to the big, monolithic MFX unit du jour.

But man, this sounds great...
 
I think the cactus graphic is just about perfect for what this tries to do. On top of being functional by acting as kind of separators for trem functionality.

BTW Source Audio confirmed on TOP that this is not analog dry-through, which is a bit of a shame. It's understandable because tremolo can't really be analog dry-through.

The Flint is analog dry-through unless the trem side is used and works fine like that. While the V2 doesn't seem to mention this, it does seem to apply to it as well - or at least I can't notice any additional latency when only the reverb side is on.
 
Bit Schizophrenic in the marketing to be honest.
Spaghetti Westerns, Cactus, Cowboy Hats, Purty little ladies in knickerbockers . Go for your gun - but go for it slow. They got me pardner. I see you’re packing iron sonny.
Then they call it “Pathways” - which could easily be a weekend seminar on beating addiction, or a leaflet from your local housing authority!
Ain’t no fancy pathways in this here town cowboy. Jus’ dust, cow dirt, and rocks, as far as ya can see. Now draw!

Pardon the pun, but the Strymon Clint V2 can be had - For a Few Dollars More!
 
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I would probably love the pedal (I love all of my enormous number of Source Audio pedals), but I personally think the finish looks awful. Maybe they'll take the opportunity to charge someone like me a few extra bucks for a good looking one.
 
This thing is cool. This is kinda what I wanted both the Flint to be. I mean, it's hard to tell if it has that "no bad settings" factor Flint has, but this having the True Spring spring reverb emulations alone puts it ahead of the Flint in at least one area, the echo and slapback modes add a ton of versatility, and the tremolo having stereo offset is very appreciated, as is the echo having ping pong (so many pedals like this just stick to mono effects with a little bit of "stereo imaging").

And I don't mind the artwork. I was iffy about it at first, but idk it's cute, and it's grown on me!

Also, glad to see their newer small pedal platform has actual MIDI in and thru (albeit with 3.55mm jacks)! I hadn't noticed that with the Artifakt. I always hated that I needed to buy the hub thing to add MIDI to the True Spring. Then again, these are 100USD more than the old small pedals.

With the MIDI and delay modes, I'm thinking this might pair well with my incoming AM4, especially since it should be able to do a chorus too since it looks like the editor exposes mod controls for the reverb / delay modes?
 
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