Deco – Transparent Overdrive
There are many ways to saturate a guitar signal, including overloading diodes, transistors, and vacuum tubes; and over the years hundreds of guitar pedals have
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OB.1 has just been reviewed in the November issue of Premier Guitar!
“… A compressor smoothes out the dynamics of your guitar, limits the amount of variation between soft and loud playing, and can also provide additional sustain. The Strymon OB.1 can do all that, and even adds a little boost. This Optical Compressor and Clean Boost pedal features true bypass and a low-noise, all-analog signal path. Strymon has taken the greatest qualities of high-end, vintage opto studio compressors and made them available in this small package. …”
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Gregg Stock
Gregg Stock is an analog engineer and co-founder of Strymon. When he's not deep within a circuit layout, he's busy cheering on his two sons that play professional baseball.
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