Review Demo - Strymon Deco Tape Saturation & Doubletracker
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- Опубликовано: 22 мар 2015
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Minds were blown when the first digital delays appeared in the late 1970s. Unlike earlier delays that relied on magnetic tape, electrostatic fluid, or bucket-brigade chips, these newfangled devices exhibited no distortion, frequency loss, or wobbly inconsistency. Listeners had never heard such crisp and accurate delays.
But ironically, by the time digital delay migrated from expensive rackmount devices to stompboxes any schmo could afford, musicians began to miss the very qualities that digital had triumphantly eradicated. It wasn’t just nostalgia-the treble loss characteristic of analog delay created a warm wash of sound that sat tidily behind the dry guitar signal. The random pitch variations of mechanical tape transports added subtle but engaging animation. Soon sound designers were mimicking these qualities in digital effects via filters and LFOs. In recent years, many guitarists have fixated not only on the quality of the delay sound, but also the ways analog devices alter the dry signal-witness the popularity of such pedals as the Xotic EP Booster and the Dunlop EP101, which replicate the preamp coloration of an Echoplex tape delay, minus any actual delay.
Strymon’s new Deco Tape Saturation & Doubletracker covers both sides of the equation, providing epic faux-tape echoes and convincing tape-style distortion in a single stompbox.
Some delay/modulation modelers aim to cover the gamut of analog effects, but Deco focuses solely the earliest of echo effects: the slaps, flanging, and chorusing of vintage studio tape decks. (Hence the Deco name). It does so with stunning realism-Deco provides the most convincing tape sounds I’ve encountered in a stompbox. The only sonic rivals I know are pricy plug-ins requiring the horsepower of a computer-based DAW, such as Universal Audio’s Ampex and Studer emulations and Slate Digital’s Virtual Tape Machine.
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I've never heard a digital distortion sound so good in my entire life. Who the DSP programmer is he's a genius.
I just watch these demos for John's awesome playing.
Jesus man your licks are FOOOKEEN amazing ! Nice playing and great demo!
As with pretty much all deco demos on you tube john miss describes what the cwitch does and doesn't do
Such a complex pedal with a beautiful array of tones. Even strymons own video doesn't get into all it can do
Vast difference in where you put it in the chain too
I love this thing
Another classic Deco demo. Barely manages to scratch the surface of this amazing pedal
John you freaking kick butt! Anyway great playing and great demo. That pedal rocks! The Boogie Rocks and that Tele is awesome. Great video!
"I DIG THAT" Quote of the video
I got this pedal last month and I'm absolutely in love with it! There isn't a bad setting on the thing. I use it in three different bands that are three different styles of music and it does something amazing in each setting.
Where you use it? The final chain, effect loop?
The "slap back" alone is worth the 300 bucks - haven't heard a single delay pedal that matches it in realism and warmth. And you can tweak it to get some rare and beautiful sounds. The over-driven sound is just enough. The whole pedal sounds great! It's got to be my next piece of music gear.
Great demo, BTW.
John's B-bender work still holds up in 2021 if anyone was curious ;)
Thank you for starting out the demo video by detailing your signal chain. A lot of demoers don't do this & it's frustrating when you hear something that you KNOW isn't the demo pedal.
I've been having a hard time finding other guitar saturation pedals, or at least that have the same tone and effect as the deco. Anyone know of any pedals?
Dude you're sick. And beautiful guitar.
Don't the knobs on this pedal adjust another set of different parameters when you hold both switches in? Or is that another strymon pedal im thinking of?
Good Demo. Sounds cool
Good demo, the guy is pretty engaging.
Didn't know this guy could rip country!. At 6:28 the tone nails "Love hurts...."
Cool set up.
Dang! I need to grab my axe and steal those burnin' country licks at 3:29.
sweet tele playing!!!
Nice intro and tele ☺
wow i want that same black pickguard for my double bound tele
You sir know how to demo
Interesting.
that B bender helps rip them thar burning country licks no matter how 'loose' they fall. Watch the strap lug bobble like Monica. Sounds good. Need this pedal.
I have the 'special' version of that amp and I gotta say, Mesa has to work on their Verb. The way the verb gets louder (swells) like a compressor is releasing itself is just one of the ugliest artifacts I've heard. Thankfully it doesn't matter live but yeesh!
why cant i find a vid where things a explained properly????
Because very few people fully understand what the pedal can do ✌
@@wormeister so what's point of an explanation if it's not to get one to understand?
If David Lynch made pedal videos...
He's playing in your house right now.
That hair
Which still generally always beats " that hat".
They should have just called this pedal "Hey you, wanna sound like Pink Floyd?" Lol cool pedal and demo
Post production killed the sound, compression is applied to the overall recording, and the reverb trails are amplified resulting in a very unnatural sound. Not showing the true sound of the deco pedal.