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Original bigsky based on their page.
- 366MHz SIMD SHARC processor core, capable of 2.4 Gigaflops peak performance
Strymon BigSky MX
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Original bigsky based on their page.
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If you look at it purely from the “It’s V1 + Moar Stuff = Moar Expensive” angle sure, but most of these pedals they are refreshing are decades old and could have used a refresh to maintain their previous price points much less drive substantial price increases. So I don’t look At it as an A + B = C scenario. (Noting the BigSky is a little different in they were clearly trying to position it against say the H90, but the value of running two reverbs vs two entirely different effect types like in the H90, remains to be seen)
As an owner of two V2 pedals, I am capable of talking out of both sides of my mouth and reserve the right to be entirely full of shit.
I just find some of this pricing disappointing.
Ill go watch some Magneto sound demos to cheer me up.
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Most people making soundscapey music are not utilising IR's. Those are the people using Bloom and Cloud algorithms, the people stacking reverbs even though guitarists on forums laugh at them for it, and generally also the people who will keep an old 1970's tape delay around even though they are a bastard to maintain.If you make soundscape-y music built around sampled IRs like Sascha's examples, it's pretty impossible to put it on stage without IR capable reverb pedals.
Put this in the hands of, say, Radiohead and see how they run.
It's total overkill for a bit of spring and a dash of plate.
But then, there are folks out there who build their rig for maximum price tag. Which is fine, too.
I personally don't see a need for IR's in a reverb pedal, when algorithmic reverbs offer so much more. My music is so soundscapey it borders on interesting-but-not-quite.
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They probably saw the success of the LVX and thought a new price point has been set. I reckon they're right too. Most Strymon fans aren't going to balk at this price I don't think.If you look at it purely from the “It’s V1 + Moar Stuff = Moar Expensive” angle sure, but most of these pedals they are refreshing are decades old and could have used a refresh to maintain their previous price points much less drive substantial price increases. So I don’t look At it as an A + B = C scenario. (Noting the BigSky is a little different in they were clearly trying to position it against say the H90, but the value of running two reverbs vs two entirely different effect types like in the H90, remains to be seen)
As an owner of two V2 pedals, I am capable of talking out of both sides of my mouth and reserve the right to be entirely full of shit.
I just find some of this pricing disappointing.
Ill go watch some Magneto sound demos to cheer me up.
Still.... I recall someone telling me an FM3 would be a better purchase than an Eventide H90, and actually... I think they're right in that case... and maybe in this one too.
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But algorithmic reverbs can't do what convolution reverbs can. Name me a reverb pedal that sounds like chirps from crickets or frogs, or engine taking off etc.. Things that can be captured and turned into some weird reverb pad etc.. Just can't be done with algorithms.
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I'm very familiar with using unconventional IR's to come up with soundscapes and things like that. I've made entire ambient albums using that approach. But for me it is more interesting on synths, and I'm not that fussed about 10second IR's in a reverb pedal. Personally.
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Got a bandcamp? I love to check it out!
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Not for that stuff. It used to be on a small internet label called Intelligent Machinery, waaaaaayyyy back before Bandcamp.
I believe this is one of the droney albums I did back then, using that kind of technique:
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Sean Halley over on reverb said this about the freeze/infinite
"There are two different modes - one is Infinite and one is Freeze. Freeze does what you probably expect, in that it just freezes anything currently playing in the buffer and sustains it, but any new notes you play are not added to the reverb. So in Freeze, your new notes stay dry from BSMX. In Infinite, BSMX sustains any audio currently in the buffer, and new notes you play are added to the wash, instead of staying dry. That's the way the original unit works, so we've kept it consistent for the new guy. Hope that helps!"
"There are two different modes - one is Infinite and one is Freeze. Freeze does what you probably expect, in that it just freezes anything currently playing in the buffer and sustains it, but any new notes you play are not added to the reverb. So in Freeze, your new notes stay dry from BSMX. In Infinite, BSMX sustains any audio currently in the buffer, and new notes you play are added to the wash, instead of staying dry. That's the way the original unit works, so we've kept it consistent for the new guy. Hope that helps!"
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Ok so I asked Sean Halley "how much storage space for IRs does it offer on the bigsky mx pedal"
His reply...
"Lots and lots. I'd have to ask what the real storage is like, but you should be able to shoehorn lots of stuff into it. Basically, you load WAV files into Nixie 2, and it converts them to FLAC files that then get loaded into BSMX. It was the best way to get lossless performance and save a bunch of space. Ten second impulses are FUN - and don't sleep on the ones that we made ourselves. Some of the springs are stupid good."
His reply...
"Lots and lots. I'd have to ask what the real storage is like, but you should be able to shoehorn lots of stuff into it. Basically, you load WAV files into Nixie 2, and it converts them to FLAC files that then get loaded into BSMX. It was the best way to get lossless performance and save a bunch of space. Ten second impulses are FUN - and don't sleep on the ones that we made ourselves. Some of the springs are stupid good."
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Why do you come here, seems like you hate every pedal and negative about them all lol.
Do you just jam on an acoustic in your underwear on the front porch on a farm land somewhere?
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Only the shit onesWhy do you come here, seems like you hate every pedal and negative about them all lol.
Do you just jam on an acoustic in your underwear on the front porch on a farm land somewhere?
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Why do you come here, seems like you hate every pedal and negative about them all lol.
Do you just jam on an acoustic in your underwear on the front porch on a farm land somewhere?
Plug a Sire into a strymon if you really want to see a reacion from him
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I think the enclosure Strymon uses is made out of pot metal.
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Complete the trifecta by plugging it into a Line 6 combo.Plug a Sire into a strymon if you really want to see a reacion from him
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Shit hardware is made of it sintered pot metal is even worse. Just look at Dusenberg if you want to see what Korea can make out of metal that you can melt in a kettle.Is pot metal the antithesis of having a good one?
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I set up an old EZ-series Ibanez for a friend a few years back. The trem block, that was obviously made out of pot metal, literally disintegrated while I was adjusting the spring tension.Shit hardware is made of it sintered pot metal is even worse. Just look at Dusenberg if you want to see what Korea can make out of metal that you can melt in a kettle.
After hours of trying to find a replacement block, I gave the guitar back and told him that it wasn’t worth either of our time.
