Strymon Deco

[EBS_freak]

Anybody here with a Strymon deco? More interested in the saturation element of it really... tell me about it...

[krispn]

Yeah I'm all ears for this thing - I love what it does and can imagine it being a staple in any Cure tribute band or for anyone playing a baritone. The drive on it does sound great but I'm only going byt the demo's I've heard not first hand experience.

 

[Dosi Y'Anarchy]

I had one of these and the flint for a while. I loved them both and regret selling them.

I LOVED the saturation on the Deco, I think I've got a video I did of just the saturation side, if I can find it I'll upload it to YouTube for you.

In short, at low gain it fattens up the tone and adds a little compression. I believe if you step on both stomp switches at the same time you can actually access a 2 band EQ for it so I never noticed any loss of low end. 

Sometimes it beat out the Hudson Broadcast and Smallsound/bigsound Mini I had at the time.

I enjoyed the Doubletracker too and could get chorus and flanger sounds as well as simple delays out of it. 

I really loved the saturation on guitar too.

[GisserD]

ive been on the lookout for a Deco at a good price for about a year now. Some of the Bass demos of the saturation side really impressed me!!

I just snagged one on ebay so i guess ill get to try one at last

 

edit.

heres a thread i started earlier this year...

 

 

Edited September 17, 2018 by GisserD

[GisserD]

So it's here!!! 

And I really like it

It's not like any drive pedal I've ever played. Its character is warm and smooth. It compresses the signal fairly heavily above noon on the saturation dial, but in a nice thick gooey way. 

I'll try and get some sound clips loaded up to explain. But I'm initial reaction to it is that it's great!! 

[krispn]

Cool!! 

[GisserD]

as promised here's a very quick demo...

DecoTest.mp3

1. clean bass, Fender Jazz elite 5 with nickel rounds. both pickups, active mode

2. saturation at 50%

3. saturation at 75%

4. saturation at 100%

5. clean Slap

6. slap with saturation at 50%

 

I think it illustrates what the saturation does at differing amounts. Below 50% I love the way it warms up the signal in a really old school way. kind of like chucking a set of used flats on.

i'm working on a new track where i intend to use the Deco on the bass so ill post it here and you can see how it sounds in a mix.

 

 

 

[Dosi Y'Anarchy]

Sounds great, now I miss mine!

[krispn]

Sounds good on the lower gain settings. 

[GisserD]

Yeah I prefer it below 50% saturation 

[EBS_freak]

Boss! Thanks all.

[GisserD]

just for the sake of completeness i recorded a demo of saturation at roughly 30%. i don't know why i didn't include this in the first demo as its where i prefer to leave it set.

1. clean bass, Fender Jazz elite 5 with nickel rounds. both pickups, active mode

2. saturation at 30%

DecoTest 2.mp3

[GisserD]