01—Pedal catalog
Strymon TimeLine
Twelve delay machines and deep presets in one box: the delay you don't have to think about.
If you only ever buy one delay pedal in your life, this is the one.
02—On the bench
Twelve delay machines on one pedal — dTape, dBucket (bucket-brigade), Digital, Dual, Pattern, Reverse, Ice, Duck, Swell, Trem, Filter, and Lo-Fi. The TimeLine is the modern equivalent of a Lexicon PCM-42 — a single piece of gear that gives a serious player every delay sound they'll ever need without ever sounding generic. 200 preset slots accessible via MIDI. The 'Looper' mode adds a 30-second stereo looper as a bonus. The dTape and dBucket emulations are what put Strymon on the map: convincing tape and analog modeling without the hiss and unreliability of the original gear.
- 01dTape is the canonical Echoplex emulation
- 02dBucket sounds like a real bucket-brigade chip
- 03Ice mode is shimmer-delay, used on a lot of indie records
- 04Pattern mode covers multi-tap rhythms, from percussive to ambient
- 05looper is good enough that you don't need a second pedal
03—Power
What it takes to run the TimeLine.
300mA at 9V
At 300mA it needs a high-current jack, and an isolated one: big digital pedals put noise on a shared ground.
Typical published draw. Check the label on your unit for its voltage and polarity before you plug in.
- Harley Benton PowerPlant ISO-2 Pro →jacks 3-8 · 300mA
- MXR ISO-Brick M238 →jacks 3-4 · 300mA
- Truetone 1 SPOT Pro CS6 →jacks 1-2 · 500mA
04—In the room
Where else this pedal lives.
Eventide H90 if you want effects beyond delay too; TimeLine if you want the canonical delay specifically.