Strymon BigSky MX - Impulse

[@mark7166]

As somebody who has some knowledge of DSP, I enjoy the fact that his explanation of convolution reverb is "it does a convolution of your guitar input with a pre-recorded impulse response", which doesn't actually explain it to anybody else 🤣😂🤣

[@horaciococcioni8538]

Well, I think that it's a great concept. It's a studio reverb in pedal format, with almost infinite creative potential. So, it is what the bigsky should be in 2024.

[@tedpikul3373]

The Infinite feature is similar to the Auto mode of the EHX Superego, right?

[@strymon]

Not exactly - there are two modes that are in that camp: Infinite holds the audio in a buffer and adds new things that you play to the wash, so they get pushed through the reverb. Freeze works as you'd expect, in that whatever is in the buffer is "frozen", and new input from the guitar isn't processed by the reverb. Hopefully that makes sense!

[@p07a]

Can you guys pipe in a super saw synth as an impulse and sing into this? Would be interesting to hear.

[@joejohnson8966]

5:50 interesting

[@Gusther37]

They should make a combination of the most essential delays of the Timeline and the Reverbs of the BigSky Cloud, Bloom, Plate instead of taking out a product like this

[@luciojara8267]

Bring back the switch C !!!

[@yannic8086]

I wish I had the Money to buy this beautiful thing. But I'm broke :D

[@gcvrsa]

According to the MX manual, the maximum quality of the impulses you can load is 24-bit/48 KHz, which is unacceptably low for a product that costs $680 USD street price. Furthermore, Strymon provides no documentation of how long your impulses can be. There are much better products on the market already at less than half this price, if your goal is using convolutions.

[@strunzgracie]

On the home page of the Strymon website it says "10 second impulse response". I think there are only 2 other choices on the market right now, Tasty Chips (which doesn't have MIDI) and Poly Verbs (which can only load 8 user IRs).

[@p07a]

It’s literally in the video description that it’s 10 seconds long. I think 24/48 is enough. It’s a reverb pedal, not an audio interface. I do think that for almost $700 we should get more than 10 seconds. I would personally be fine with 16-bit for a longer impulse.

[@ryanpaulretouch]

I'm unaware of other convolution reverb pedals. Can you tell me what they are?

[@thestuffmikedoes2309]

What are the other products in the market?