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Jan
15
2011
Strymon TimeLine – a preview
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@Todd: That would be an excellent addition!
@Ethan: If you did add the infinite repeats is it possible to let midi do it to? I will be controlling the TimeLine when I get it via midi (if of coarse I can), will you make tap tempo a CC value and if so will I need a momentary or latching style footswitch?
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@James O. I’m thinking you may have to re-word that bit of advice. If I can have two of the three, I’ll choose FAST and EXCELLENT! :) And @Ethan, can you guys send out a Tweet when you post the clips of the TL? I’d love to hear them as soon as they’re available!
@Devan: No reword needed, if you want it Fast and Excellent gunna have to pay for it, cuz it wont be cheap. That’s it…
Is there a way to set the number of repeats in any of the modes (like on the TC D2?) cheers :)
This pedal looks FANTASTIC! I have a very specific need, though, and I’m wondering if this pedal can address it: Does this pedal have looping capabilities, and–I notice the MIDI in/out–can you can multiple TimeLines together via MIDI to synchronize loops? I.e. can one pedal function as a master loop, and then other pedals would slave to that loop via MIDI clock?
In the last comment, I left out a word, sorry: My question should have read: “can you CHAIN multiple TimeLines together?” Thanks…
@Ethan Are you still aiming for a release date in late May to early June?
I’m ready for the TimeLine!!!
I need a multi-effects processor and it looks like I might buy a Boss GT-10. Strymon, can you please release these features as soon as possible? I want to know if this is exactly what I’m looking for instead of the GT-10. And I only have 1 month of vacation left so I really hope that this gets released soon.
@Kevin Hmmmm….you know the Timeline is just a delay pedal right? It’s not gonna have distortion, amp modeling, dedicated modulation, etc. that the GT-10 has. The TL is a multi-type delay pedal, not a multi-effects pedal.
@Kevin, if you are looking for a multi-effects unit the “TimeLine” will not help you. Devan is absolutely correct by saying you wont get anything more than delay with the TimeLine.
However, if you are looking for a really good multi-effect unit I would highly recommend the Line6 podHD500. It’s similar in price, but the sound in my opinion is superior to the Boss/Roland comparable. I have personally used it and put it through the ringer and it was durable and dependable.
Let me add, there is nothing like building a pedalboard (pedal by pedal) and running it through a kick-butt tube amp, and I’m sure a lot of the guys here will agree. I know that it can get pricey, but there is no comparison. None of it: Line6/fractal/Roland/Boss/Avid, is like the real thing! No matter what the company tells ya.
I hope that helps you Kevin, and the best of luck to ya!
@James O, I agree 100% about building a board pedal by pedal. I started out 5 years ago with a multi effects unit (digitech gnx4). I know modelers have come a long way since then but I’ve heard the news ones too. As you said, there is still no comparison to getting the actual equipment that the multi effects units are trying to emulate.
The multi effects unit did teach me a lot about what sounds I wanted though. And it was convenient for practice purposes. But the tone of my pedals is just better. I did miss the ability to use presets when I switched to individual pedals, which is why I just bought a voodoo lab switching system. Now I have the tone I want with the flexibility of presets. The Timeline is the final pedal I need to complete the setup. Just a few more weeks hopefully!
My tax return is slowly getting drunk away, Sooooo I need the release to be now or else i might have to work and I dont want to do that so you kinda see the deliema im having. OMG I didnt know this pedal was just a delay pedal Oh Nooooo I thought it was a cheesy multiple effects pedal what im I going to do with my 68 strat into my 63 vibroverb I wanted to ruin my tone.
Dear Strymon,
It’s my birthday today. Please release the Timeline.
Best Regards,
Devan
I guess my needs are not in this product as I already have the old Damage Control Timeline (My first pedal!). I’m never getting rid of it and still enjoy to make a groove with it every now and then.
@James O. – Everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion I guess… I simply don’t agree.
@Zack- No big deal man, what exactly don’t you agree with? (Not to get into a lengthy debate) just want to hear from a different perspective.
Just heard the Blue Sky and it is absolutely beautiful.I will be adding that pedal and running it in my effects loop of my Two Rock. I as well am waiting on this Timeline to be released and am curious how close will it sound to the Damage Control tone ? I am sure it will be over the top. Waiting in line.
Almost here, I feel it!!!
@James O – I just thought your opinion was one sided, that’s all. While I do agree that quality control, etc. can suffer as a company grows, it doesn’t mean that is has to. I believe a company can grow and still maintain their ability to produce a quality product.
In my experience the more passionate and gifted/talented people you pool on a project, the better the outcome. Collaborative effort usually always trumps individual effort.
Strymon would just have to find the right people and the right method for growth. I simply didn’t agree with you saying it wasn’t possible.
@Zack… I think you’re correct in what you’re saying, but that you and James O are talking about two different things.
Myself… I’ve got a multi-effects pedal on board, and it’s cool, but I find it kind of cumbersome to adjust outside the presets, and I do think audio quality (not necessarily build quality) suffers when too much is crammed into one circuit board. I’m on the edge of my seat, ready to drop the Timeline into the mix as the ‘effect of choice’ for Delay.
Can we get a little eye/ear candy on the Timeline? I buy pretty much exclusively online because the closest music store is an hour’s drive, and the more demos/feature walkthroughs the better!
@Tim, Zack is referring to an older post of mine in regards to major chain manufacturer as opposed to a smaller company such as “Strymon”.
@Zack: I see where you are coming from and yes I agree with the idea the more talented panel of people the better a product should be, however (and this may not always be correct) the more people, talented or not you have working together the bigger chances of compromise due to multi-vision outlook. Where as the smaller amount of people the more focused things tend to be. I see where you are coming from, and I really don’t even disagree with you I just think we are both looking at the same thing, but from different points of view. I suppose my opinion may seem a little 2 dimensional, but I think in some cases I’m correct.
Here are some companies that I think prove my point:
Peavey
Carvin
Roland/Boss
Behringer
Digitech
Recent-Gibson
Korg
*Not everything from these guys are bad, but they show trends of quantity not quality. These are heavy hitters in the music business.*
Strymon, if you do not release the Timeline soon, many of your followers will begin arguing and fighting one another over meaningless, non-Timeline related posts. Oh wait…it already happened!
Please release it soon!
I’m sure they are tweaking the crap out of it to make sure it meets there expectation of superior build. It will be worth the wait for it to turn out to be the last delay we ever need to purchase.It will make my Two Rock sound even better than I can imagine and that also goes for my Fuchs ODS/SLX 30 watt combo with a great reverb but I will be adding the Strymon Blue Sky and this Timeline when it comes out.It should sound awesome with my Brown Note DLite 44 as well.I will also be sending my board back to Trailer Trash Custom Pedalboards and have him replace certain pedals with these.Once I get a Strymon on my board,I’m sure my guitar afficiondo buddies will be adding to their boards too!!!
@Alex – Touché!
Speaking of wandering off on non-TimeLine threads… I decided to get working on picking up a good reverb while waiting for TimeLine. So I head to Ebay to see how cheap I can get BlueSky. There’s only one active auction … with 3 days left on the auction, it’s bidding higher than they can buy direct. Crazy.
Seems to be a common thing for Strymon pedals … Most folks that get their hands on them don’t go off and auction them later, they keep ‘em – that says something.
Dear friends, Is the timeline already for sale in europe?
Ok Fellows, It is officially the end of May which was put out there as a release date for the Timeline. Can you at least tell us how close you are to the release?
@Alex: Enough said! Sorry Boys! :-)
@Alex: Your a genius, At least if we do get off the subject of the product, It should be something like how are pants are getting more and more chub filled everyday waiting for the massive release.
Yeah, it would be nice to know if it’s going to be more than a couple of weeks.
Just a guess, but the giveaway for the “first timeline” doesn’t end until May 31st. So I’m not expecting to hear any news until that day at the soonest. Hopefully we’ll hear something around then. Sooner would be great though. In fairness to Strymon, the last estimated release date I saw them put out was late May/early June. So that’s something to keep in mind as well.
I’m sure they work hard.
Guitar Guitar in the U.K. said that they were due in by the end of June. All of the European distributors have been saying June for a while, I was just hoping that is was early June.
@Ethan: Are you guys going to add an external tap tempo option on the “TimeLine”?
From what I’ve read and seen, 99% of people who buy Strymon pedals love them to death, and it certainly says something about the company’s rep and product quality. $450 for the Timeline is a steal when compared to the $230 for the DD-20 (I bought it 2-3 Christmases ago and it was $200….) This pedal sounds light-years ahead of anything that big corporations like Boss attempt to do. While I love my DD-20 to death, I know the Timeline will easily clean the floor with it. Just having that many presets is phenomenal. And while I look on this website at least 3 times a day, hoping that I’ll get a chance to buy a pedal from the first batch, I’m glad they take the time and effort to make such quality products. Kudos, Strymon!
Man, that Timeline would look awesome on my board. I know some folks that will buy that pedal as soon as they hear it on my board! Some gear snobs!! But hey, I wouldn’t mind winning that pedal too. Then I can buy a Lex.Well a three day weekend will help the wait. Good luck Strymon brothers!!!
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day. Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way …………….Hurry up! I’m not getting any younger, and the NAMM clips have been haunting me since the start of the year. ;-)
Thankfully my El Cap keeps me calm. Imagine the bliss when I have both the Cap and the Timeline! Keep up the great work guys.
@James O. Ethan told me that they’re going to add external tap tempo control. But then again, he also said that this would be for sale a month ago, and then claimed that it would be out now…
[ZING!!!]
Just kidding – Ethan said he’s working on the external tap tempo feature. And, Strymon, I know you guys are doing your best to finish this (and I know its a lot more work than just soldering up some circuit boards) but you did claim at one point that the Timeline would be released by late April/early May and then extended that to late May/early June (I think May 29 counts as “late May/early June”) so please release this soon!
Hey Ethan, I miss you…I haven’t read any your sweet words in a while…I’ll bet you’re busy building the best delay pedal ever created…so I guess I understand.
@Joel: Thanks man!
@Devan: Ya, where the heck are you Ethan?!?
@Ethan: Any conformation on external tap tempo???
Jason O….
Technology has caught up with amps/pedals.
I love them also, but in the right hands and with the right ears tweaking you can’t tell the difference.
Ron
How many are you making on the first run?
Just curious if I should be checking my e-mail every 30 seconds for the next couple of days…
@Alex. I concur. I’ve bought, unpackaged, and sold a lot of delays. Boss stuff is ok, and so is the nova stuff by TC, but just the mere flexibility and sonic quality of these pedals makes them worth far beyond the asking price. Take your time, Strymon. Your products are great and I can’t wait to buy and never again lust after another delay pedal – well, that is, until you put out another one, which I will then buy to put next to my Timeline.
It’s been 2 days and no one has said anything?? Geez
@Jason: I think we are busy refreshing our email waiting for that news letter…
James, I hear ya man. I’ve got my iPhone ringer set to high to hear the emails coming in. As you can imagine, it can be a real burden, but hey…… Isn’t it worth it? :)
We are FIRMLY within the “Late May/Early June” window…must…have…TimeLine…allllllmooost…there!!!!
Hey all! So we are working our tails off putting the finishing touches on TimeLine. We don’t have an exact release date but we are getting closer. We’ve got all of the parts, the metal chassis are being built, anodized, and laser etched, and we’re just about to start building circuit boards in quantity. We’re working on presets. Playing with the looper. Audio and quality testing. We’re testing the MIDI functionality. We’ve got tons of audio clips and videos that will be going live over the next couple days.
We’re in the home stretch, and we’ll keep you in the loop on our progress.
Thanks for being as excited about TimeLine as we are! :)