Strymon Timeline

Strymon Timeline

Toured with this unit for many years. Only needed one setting for everything so I can’t talk about all the feature settings but it is a great unit.

What an incredible sets of sounds!

My only criticism goes to the fact of being user-unfriendly. Manual is ridiculous

Amazing sounding delay

I was dead set on an Empress Echosystem after watching Youtube reviews and having been really impressed by the engines that can run in so many ways, and I thought nothing would change my mind.

However, I said to myself that I should give the Strymon Timeline a chance as well. I had the opportunity to spend some time with both of them for about 10 days and while indeed the Echosystem seemed to be more innovative with the features and the algorithms, what eventually made me go with the Timeline was most of all that it just sounded so much better to me and was easier in my opinion to dial in a good sound quickly.

Also, regarding the simplicity of the interface with the Echosystem, while I initially thought it was a good thing, in the end made it feel quite poorer in comparison.

Finally, as I already had a Strymon Mobius, it helped a lot that they are very consistent with their interface. And it is in the end a much better interface for me.

While the empress is also a very good pedal, in my opinion I don't think they can quite justify charging the same price as a strymon unit..

I think it's definitely interesting what Empress does with the engine modes (series, parallel, left/right) but I am not sure this was something that I would even need in the longrun, probably something that I would have fun for a while and then never use again.

I hope this helps someone having the same soul eating dilemma as I had :)

Inspiration Machine

This pedal just has it all and sounds amazing. The ultimate tool for extracting ideas that you never new you had. You'll end up using delay on everything and won't want to turn it off.

very versatile delay options

Maybe a bit complex to set up but can't fault the quality

Great sound, not fun to use

Have had this for about half a year now. It's a great sounding module. There's no way around it. It sounds pure, clean, beautiful.

However, it doesn't sound gritty, even if you use the grit button or the filters. It's just not dirty, it's clean and you can't get it to sound dirty. That limits a bit the cases you can use it for of course, but it's a great sound for specific sounds.

Unfortunately, programming it is just not fun. Using presets is uninspiring as it's hard to reprogram them. Going from scratch has the same issue, it's just totally not intuitive. Sometimes you accidentally hit or touch a button and it will skip to another program.. For instance the delay time has a dedicated button, but to finetune you have to use the value button which also selects presets. I don't know, it's just not fun to use. It's great sounding but the fun factor is low.

Great pedal if you know how to use it

Astonishing

Truly epic. I haven't even scratched the surface of what this can do yet. Bought this with the Big sky and wow, what a combo. Buy it, you won't regret it.

One of the best delay devices out there!

I'm super happy with it. There's a lot of types of delay inside of this pedal, whats makes it super versatile, and the sound is fantastic!

Strymon got everything right on this one.

King of Delays

The King of Delays.

Hours of fun and limitless potential with this pedal.

You know you want one