The winners and honorable mentions will be added to this page—so please come enjoy with everyone that took time out to share their favorite thing about their sound.

Honorable Mentions:

bgriffANTH1

hairpinturns

mikeiskool

desertghosts

Ian Johnson (@wiggles837 Fun fact: playing with this group of guys is my favourite thing period.)

kevinglaudel

TD2243

AHotdogHorse

ejangi

ludoplastic

Jesiah Henricksen

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I don’t think I can express how difficult it was to choose the winners for this contest. There were so many excellent entries. But as always there has to be a winner, so we sat down and picked one video winner, one photo winner and one Vine winner. Yep, that’s right, we added a third winner, because it was too difficult to just pick two.

But for now, I’m sure you are yelling, “TELL ME WHO THE WINNERS ARE!!”

Winner #1 (photo category) – Pat Morford

Pat emailed us this photo and said “I love the sound of playing outdoors.”

Winner #2 (video category) – Jon Carolino

Winner #3 (Vine category) – Jonathan Angulo

Be sure to mouseover the Vine video, and click on the speaker icon to unmute the audio!

Honorable Mentions

In the very near future we will announce several additional honorable mention prizes. T-shirts and possibly more. Stay tuned to check out the additional prize winners! :)

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Equal parts reverb pedal and tremolo pedal, the unique Flint guitar effects pedal combines three decades of historic vintage reverb and tremolo guitar effects into a single, pedal-board-friendly format. Expanded tone-shaping capabilities, true bypass and other modern features make this magical combination of guitar effects the perfect partner for every guitarist.

The advent of reverb and tremolo in the 1960s forever changed the sound of the guitar, and “Flint nails those vintage tones,” says Premier Guitar magazine. “There’s no better time to revisit the effects that started it all,” states Guitarist magazine, because Flint’s special tremolo reverb effects deliver “several decades of killer guitar tone.”

With vintage tremolo and reverb effects running together or separately, and in either direction, Flint provides a modern take on this classic combination. The effects pedal “enables delicious combinations of vintage colors and contemporary tones that invite creative exploration,” explains Premier Guitar. But, don’t worry, they continued, “You don’t have to dig too deep to reap sonic rewards.” Just like the original reverb and tremolo effects it celebrates, Flint is really easy to use.

Flint’s choice reverb effects are described as “intoxicating” by Premier Guitar, and its 60’s-style tremolo effects are characterized as “wonderfully organic,” “lovely” and “blooming.” Flint’s “jaw-dropping digital renderings of hard-to-capture analog classics” are “unbelievably musical and infinitely usable,” writes Guitar Player magazine. “It all sounds great,” concurs The Deli magazine. “Simply put, I love this pedal,” states Guitar Noize blog.

Guitarist digs the separate effects but it’s combination of the two that stopped them in their tracks. “Playing around with reverb and tremolo combinations,” says Guitarist, “is an easy way to spend an hour or two with a big grin on your face.” We agree, and we’re glad you’re enjoying it!

As if they’re mimicking a Flint tremolo setting, the reviews have been coming in steady waves. We’re thrilled to be getting the attention – but we’re beside ourselves from the overwhelming positivity and support. “It’s a rare piece of gear that unites the whole office into one slavering mass of expectation,” says Guitarist, “However, the Strymon Flint is one such pedal … [it’s] simply an inspiration.”

Flint is “bound to change the minds of more than a few analog purists,” writes Premier Guitar. “It’s been fun to watch Strymon confound analog dogmatists over the last few years.” Happy to help. :)

To top it off, Flint received Premier Guitar magazine’s prestigious “Premier Gear” award and Guitar Player magazine’s coveted “Editors’ Pick” award. (Thanks, PG and GP!)

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Strymon is a creator and manufacturer of high-end, boutique music electronics, and is a division of Damage Control Engineering. For more information, please visit www.strymon.net.

Contact:
Ethan Tufts
Strymon
press@strymon.net
(805) 496-5115

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The Mobius mod pedal provides the richest, thickest modulation effects our mod-obsessed engineers could muster. Not just a juicy chorus pedal. Not just a colorful flanger pedal. Not just an orbit-inducing phaser pedal. Mobius delivers a refined collection of historic mod effects, updates them with a little DSP magic and places them at your feet to so you can swirl, swell and shiver your way to modulation ecstasy.

Featuring 12 different types of modulations – chorus effects, flanger effects, phaser effects, a uniquely flexible rotary effect and more – “the amount of high-quality effects [Mobius] crams inside is amazing,” writes guitar blog GuitarNoize.com. Within each modulation type lays a wealth of mod effects that Premier Guitar magazine describes as “shockingly accurate.” The “sonic undulations” of the rotary effect, PG continued, are “deep and complex, and at times sound impossibly real.”

We’re deeply honored to receive the Premier Guitar “Premier Gear” award, which the magazine bestowed upon Mobius earlier this year.

In its popular audio blog, The Deli magazine is “extremely excited” about Mobius’ release. It calls the mod pedal “super diverse” thanks to its wide variety of classic mod effects including “everything from lush choruses to pulsating tremolo as well as unlikely additions” – a few deep cuts we included to inspire even the most discerning mod mavens.

In a shootout versus some classic mod pedals, Mobius won Sound On Sound magazine’s praises for its “clarity, warmth, smoothness and depth.” With “sounds as glorious as its tech-spec suggests,” Mobius “more than held its own” against its predecessors. SOS ranks Mobius “among the best [mod pedals] of its type.”

Aside from its collection of mod effects, Mobius provides a solid tactile experience including the “satisfying click” of the Type knob (Premier Guitar) and the “good balance” Mobius strikes between editability and ease (Sound On Sound). We worked hard to make sure that Mobius feels as good as it sounds.

Our friends at Premier Guitar think “it’s getting harder to surprise folks with how good Strymon pedals sound,” which makes us really happy. Sound On Sound noted that we’ve “quickly gained a loyal following” in the three years since we began making pedals. And The Deli made us blush when they called us “one of the sickest companies making stompboxes right now.” Thanks, guys!

The guitar media’s positive response to Mobius is really exciting for us. But there’s another contingent of people whose enthusiasm for our little mod monster we find especially thrilling: the guitarist community:

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Strymon is a creator and manufacturer of high-end, boutique music electronics, and is a division of Damage Control Engineering, LLC. For more information, please visit www.strymon.net.

Contact:
Ethan Tufts
Strymon
press@strymon.net
(805) 496-5115

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We are releasing this version as a public beta to allow additional testing in many different real world usage situations. This is not a required update— please feel free to continue using your current version. Should you choose to update your TimeLine you are always allowed the option to roll back.

Update instructions are included as a PDF with the download. If you have any problems updating, please take a look at these updating troubleshooting tips. :)

What’s New:

• MIDI Clock Sweep (MC SWP) global parameter:
  • We’ve added the option to keep or remove delay pitch artifacts when changing TAP tempo from external MIDI Clock source.
• MIDI Clock Reset (MC RST) global parameter:
  • Now, you have the option to re-sync TimeLine back to an external MIDI clock source tempo after manually tapping in a new tempo or sweeping the Time knob on TimeLine.
• Added new MIDI Commands for looper:
  • We’ve added two new absolute MIDI commands for Reverse and Half Speed looper controls. Reverse = 103
• Changed MIDI Preset Recall Behavior
  • In older code revisions, recalling presets via MIDI automatically altered the bypass state of the preset to ON. Now, if your preset is bypassed before you send a new MIDI preset program change, the new preset recalled will remain bypassed.
• Improved Swell Delay triggering:
  • We’ve made improvements to the way the swell is triggered when using the Swell Delay machine.
• Global Tap Tempo per preset:
  • You can now turn Global Tap Tempo on or off per preset. Useful when you have some presets that require Global Tap and others that don’t.
• “SUCCESS” indicator when installing factory/user presets:
  • Now, when a factory or user preset SysEx file is loaded into the TimeLine, the LED will display “SUCCESS” indicating a successful file transfer.
• Preset Dump:
  • We’ve added a Preset Dump function in the Global menu. This is a great way to make a backup of your TimeLine presets.

What’s Fixed:

• Improved looper design to remove audible ticks when controlling looper reverse and half speed functions with a MIDI controller
• Fixed and enabled Global TAP per preset feature. You can now turn Global TAP Tempo on and off per preset. Useful when you have some presets that require Global TAP and others that don’t.
• Fixed an issue caused when using the looper with the pattern delay machine
• Kill Dry function now kills dry signal when TimeLine is bypassed
• Fixed audible glitch in spillover from dBucket to Dual delay machine when in parallel configuration
• Resolved an issue caused when utilizing the feedback loop while TimeLine is bypassed

If you come across any issues with this beta release, please email us at support@strymon.net. Thanks very much! :)

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It was wonderful to see over one hundred songs mentioned and not one of them was a duplicate. There was such a great variety, and a lot of songs I personally had never heard before. I’m still going through and checking them all out.

I have highlighted our answers and some of yours. If you’d like to see them all check out the post on our Facebook page.

Strymon responses:

Here are some of our own top songs.

Gregg Stock – Analog Engineer
Deep Purple – “Mistreated (Live in California 1974).
“The secret to great tone—turn the gain down and the volume up!”

Teri Spiker – Dealer Relations
Chris Stills – “Say My Last Goodbye”
“I just met him last night; great guy!”

Rick Miller – Customer Support
The Bronx – “Along for the Ride”

Pete Celi – DSP Engineer
Jeff Beck – “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat”

Randi Stock – Shipping
My Morning Jacket – “Dondante”

Ethan Tufts – Marketing Nerd
Subtle – “Wallet Falls” (top played of all time on my iTunes)

Metz – “Headache” (top played last month on my iTunes)
“A full-fledged guitar attack!”

Dave Fruehling – Firmware Architect
Dexter Gordon – “‘Round Midnight”

Your responses:

Not one song was mentioned twice, but there were several bands that were mentioned twice:

Barrie Matte
“Trembling Hands – Explosions In The Sky” – link

James Fowler
“Your Hand in Mine – Explosions in the Sky” – link

Brandon Aegerter
“Bon Iver – Beth/Rest” – link

Angelo Boltini
“Bon Iver – Perth” – link

Ben Brandt
“Humans Being – Van Halen” – link

Benjamin Shachter
“Somebody get me a doctor – Van Halen” – link

Blake Pal
“New Skin – Incubus” – link

Daniel Rodriguez
“Love Hurts – Incubus”- link

Josh Shoup
“Echoes by Pink Floyd. 427 GOING on 428 > :D”- link

Darin Davis
“Run Like Hell, Pink Floyd!!!!” – link

Kelly showed how much fun their family has regularly.

Kelly Patrick Young
“Dancing Queen by Abba. My 6 & 8 year olds control the computer at home.” – link

Eric gets a shout out for mentioning a Timeline user :)

Eric Ellemo
“Andy Timmons (a timeline user!) – Ghost of You” – link

And Bob got in there with listening to our own Marketing Director (he didn’t get a free Mobius for that, just the reward of making us happy inside)

Bob Tomchak
“State Shirt – National Felt from Let’s Get Bloody. Right. Now’s where’s my free Mobius? :)” – link

And a few songs that I’d never listened to before and really enjoyed:

John Stark
“I Break Horses – Winter Beats”

Adrian Medriano
“Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Blaise Bailey Finnegan III”

Sam Filer
“Labradford – P”

Did you miss adding yours to the list? Comment below with yours!

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Signal path: Nord Stage2 / Dave Smith Instruments Prophet ’08 » Lex Rotary. All rotary sounds are created by Lex.

Want to learn more about Lex? Check out the Lex website. Learn more about Peter Dyer at peterdyer.net, and follow him on twitter at @peterkeys88.

Thanks again Peter for stopping by!

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Show us your favorite thing about your sound or your music, and enter to win.

Show us your creativity! Take a photo or shoot a video of something that best represents your favorite thing about your sound or music. It can be anything that inspires you, or makes you enjoy playing… a piece of gear, a guitar, a pedal, your favorite chord, your studio, rehearsal space, a song you wrote.

Post it on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Vine, or YouTube, and tag it #strymonfavorite. We’ll choose two winners who will both get a Flint Tremolo & Reverb and Tap Favorite combo.

Contest runs until April 13, 2013. Official entry rules are below. Have fun! :)

The rules:

• Take a photo or shoot a video of something that best represents your favorite thing about your sound or music.

• Post it on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Vine, or YouTube and tag it with #strymonfavorite. For YouTube be sure to add #strymonfavorite to the description.

• That’s it!

The prize:

• There will be two grand prize winners. Each will receive a Strymon Flint Tremolo & Reverb, Tap Favorite, and a Strymon t-shirt ($363 total value).

The terms:

Contest has ended. Click here to see the winners. Stay tuned for other giveaways!

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Want to store a preset of your Favorite settings on your Brigadier, El Capistan, Lex, or Flint? Or remotely tap tempos for your TimeLine, Mobius or Flint? Add our tiny Tap Favorite switch and connect to your Strymon pedal with the included 1/4″ TRS cable.

With the Favorite mode enabled, saving and recalling your Favorite preset is a snap. When you turn off your Favorite, it reverts back to the current knob states of your pedal. It’s like having two pedals ready to choose from.

When using Tap Tempo mode, you can place your TimeLine, Mobius, or Flint anywhere on your pedalboard and tap in your tempos remotely. Perfect for large rigs or boards with pedals fighting for real estate.

Learn more at the Tap Favorite site.

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Sweet! We’re excited to announce that our Flint Tremolo & Reverb pedal has received the Guitar Player Editors’ Pick award.

“Featuring a powerful SHARC processor and a wonderfully voiced analog front-end, the Flint captures the magic of three different classic Fender-style tremolos as well as three different reverbs. From the phasey throb of the ’61 Harmonic Trem to the ’80s Reverb setting, the Flint is unbelievably musical and infinitely usable. It captures the surfy spring of Fender reverb combos from the ’60s and its take on early digital reverbs yields beautiful ambient options with every guitar and amp setup. Its small size, stereo outs, expression pedal input, and jaw-dropping digital renderings of hard-to-capture analog classics make it one of the most impressive boxes I’ve heard in a long time.” – Guitar Player, February 2013

We’re very honored that Guitar Player has deemed Flint worthy of their coveted award! New to Flint Tremolo & Reverb? Check out a few of our demo vids below.

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“Simply put I love this pedal…” – Guitar Noize

Read the article, and check out the video demo below!

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Make sure to pick up a copy of Pete’s album, Guitar Nerd.

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“Unlike a tree falling in the woods, a pedal won’t make a sound unless an amplifier is there to amplify it. (If no one is there to hear the amplifier, that’s a different philosophical discussion entirely.) This may seem a bit obvious, but when we talk of a pedal’s tone we need to discuss it in the context of a particular rig. This is particularly relevant when discussing overdrive, distortion, and fuzz pedals.”

Head on over to the Premier Guitar site to read the whole article:

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Here’s what they had to say:

“The Mobius is a pedal of very deep capabilities that exponentially widens the sound potential of a pedalboard, opens up studio and production possibilities, and can inspire whole tunes.”

“The sonic undulations are deep and complex, and at times sound impossibly real—to the point of being confounding. Just how is a 4′ tall Leslie with wildly spinning drum and horn speakers hiding behind that practice amp?”

“The quality of the Mobius is superb. It’s dead silent—quiet enough to use for outboard mix buss duties. And it’s difficult to imagine a modulation unit doing much more as capably as the Mobius does.”

“If you’re an incurable studio tinkerer, session expert, or a gigging guitarist who plays in a classic rock cover band one night and a post-rock project the next, the Mobius gives you just about every modulation weapon you could ever need.”

Check out the full review below:

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