Strymon El Capistan

[Stratman]

Am I the only one who loves this pedal?

Listen to it here… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLru5HS-7es

[TheLivingDead]

Re: Strymon El Capistan

No?

[karpathion]

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No?

I giggled a little, on the inside, where it counts.

[TwilightOdyssey]

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I can't take it any longer ...

[the guy who invented fire]

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Not impressed with Strymon but I think I'm in the minority...

[LReese]

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Its a fine little box. Close enough for most.

More convenient than a tape delay, but there's nothing like a tape delay.

[Lazarus1140]

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I like mine but not for simulating tape delay effects. I use it for digital delay sounds which it was born to do very well. It can sound high fidelity and very analogish running through an analog delay.

[crusty philtrum]

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I like mine very much.

http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=11237078&q=hi

[d1dsj]

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I really like mine, it does everything I want and more (haven't got a favourite switch yet). I'm lucky enough to have never used a real tape echo so I don't know how much the difference is but for what you get in a small compact package that fits on your pedal board I think it's cool.

[Stratman]

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I like mine very much.

http://www.soundclick.com/player/sin...=11237078&q=hi

That nice echo…. playing that you presented there!

[Gearjoneser]

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Yeah, Crusty. That was a pleasure to listen to.

[crusty philtrum]

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Thanks for the kind words. That was just a Strat into the El Cap, and the stereo outputs of the pedal directly into an M-Box and the computer, no amp, mics, tubes or anything else, and no other processing in software. I fell asleep in my chair with all the recording gear on and the Strat on my lap. I woke up, and before switching it all off and going to bed, i just hit record and noodled while i was still half-asleep. I can do much better (i can even hear the missing notes that i thought i picked with my fingers, but missed, haha), but i just thought that little bit captured that moment when you wake up somewhere and feel fragile and confused for a few seconds. I was kinda 'playing to the echo'.

I know a few people can give reasons why Strymon stuff is not ideal, but I'm just a simple guitar player, it makes nice echo sounds that i can use to help make nice noises, the rest is up to me. In my little world, it works just fine.