Strymon Riverside Reviews

Perfect product

A wide range of tasteful sound options, worth every penny.

The one overdrive/distortion pedal I should have gotten from the beginning

I play a relatively low output HSS fender strat via a UA dream 65 set on clean with the purpose of getting everything only from my pedals.

I wanted 3-4 distinct sounds out of my board wrt drive/distortion, from light overdrive to 80s style distortion, without having to own several guitars or a dirtier amp.

I tried so many indiividual pedals, at one point I had 4 overdrive/distortion pedals on the board.

While I was ok with my overdrive sounds, even though I had to have 2 separate pedals for that, I could never achieve good distortion at all in my setup.

As I still own all those previous pedals, I compared them all with the Riverside to see if it can replace all of them at once. It totally could, plus it gave me the great distortion sounds and even more of it than I needed.

So I managed to downsize my board massively as well, which was nice!

I am extremely happy with it and once again completely amazed by strymon.

What will definitely come handy though is the switch to recall presets, in order to switch between those sounds quickly.

I wish I liked it more

It's great, in theory it has everything I need and more, but there's something missing, I can't fall in love with it. I'm keeping it, it's super handy, but, in my opinion, this is not like Protein or Lightspeed, there's no mojo here. But it really is a great workhorse.

Best overdrive on the market

Great tone with my Plexi! it's a category by it's own. The noise gaye functions well too

The best!

I've tried a bunch of overdrive/distortion pedals, but this is by far the best sounding, and easiest to adjust!

Big thumbs!

Ideal for Kemper

I owned/tested many distortion pedals, but this one is TOP quality product I can say simply nothing wrong about. For me (I prefer amps and cabs modelers) working best in FX send-return loop with Kemper profiler. So if U`re searching something ULTRA variable, from crunchy rock-pop tones to the ultra heavy rhythm or lead tones, this golden box will cover everything one wouldn't even expect :o)

really good drive!!

first in my pedalboard

i use it all the time

1 i play with

1 i have in preset

and the boost (if u use the pedal in buffer mode) can be active when the pedal is off

and it just add the strymon mojo to your sound