01—Strymon
TimeLine
Being the canonical delay on every pro touring pedalboard — the pedal you don't have to think about.
If you only ever buy one delay pedal in your life, this is the one. The new MkII makes it slightly better. Otherwise unchanged.
02—On the bench
Twelve delay machines on one pedal — dTape, dBucket (bucket-brigade), Digital, Analog, Reverse, Filter, Lo-Fi, Trem, Swell, Ducking, Multi-head, and Ice. 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. Lives on more pro pedalboards than any other delay.
- 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
- 04Multi-head emulates the Binson Echorec
- 05looper is good enough that you don't need a second pedal
03—In the room
Where else this pedal lives.
- The Edge
- John Mayer
- Pete Thorn
- Andy Timmons
Eventide H90 if you want effects beyond delay too; TimeLine if you want the canonical delay specifically.