Introducing La Brea Analog Tape Drive

Sometimes Inspiration Comes From Within.

It’s not often that your own gear inspires something different and new, but that’s exactly what happened with our newest Series A pedal, La Brea.

Twelve years ago, Strymon analog engineer Josh Forbes read the white paper that Pete wrote on the development of Deco, and it sent him down the path of experimenting with tape saturation techniques inside a fully analog drive circuit. Over a decade of tinkering later, La Brea is the result.

The new pedal uses multi-stage tape saturation techniques to cover everything from mild breakup to borderline-fuzz, with the pleasing natural compression that makes tape feel so good to play into.

A three position Shift switch adds treble, with one position focusing on high frequencies only, and the other adding upper mids to those high frequencies to help notes poke through a mix. A fully variable dry path stays in phase with your signal at all times, keeping things clear and articulate even with the Tape Sat knob pinned.

It runs internally at 24 volts, so there’s ample headroom whether you want a vibey clean boost or an all-out fuzz.

La Brea joins Fairfax and Canoga as the latest entry in our Series A line of all analog pedals, and we’re particularly excited about this one, as many of you have been asking for something exactly like this ever since we launched the first all-analog pedal last year.

Hear La Brea now at strymon.net and order yours direct from us or from a dealer near you.

La Brea Analog Tape Drive

Fully analog multi-stage tape saturation.

$199.00

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Sound Samples, Deep Dives And More — Listen To La Brea In Action On Our YouTube Channel

Strymon analog engineer Josh Forbes grabs his lap steel and takes us on a journey into the world of La Brea.

Listen as La Brea is driven through its full sonic range, from adding warmth and fullness to clean tones, to the fuzzy sounds of a tape machine pushed to its absolute limit.