{"product_id":"strymon-deco-v2-tape-saturation-doubletracker-pedal-2126373","title":"Strymon Deco V2 Tape Saturation \u0026 Doubletracker Pedal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/strong\u003eMissing original packaging, minor cosmetic blemishes.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn evolution of its compact effects pedals, each pedal Strymon’s V2 line of effects is packed with new features and enhancements designed to give users additional flexibility, power, and ease of use, both on the stage and in the studio! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTape: The First Effect\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdd warm dimensionality and luscious tape saturation to your signal. Teleport the tones of yesteryear to your board. Effortlessly create a huge range of beautiful, distinctive, and enveloping vintage sounds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur journey begins with the early recording studios of the ’50s and ’60s. The introduction of reel-to-reel tape machines and the creative engineers that used them brought on some of the fattest sounds imaginable. These early machines really were the first effects pedals — they just wouldn’t have fit on your pedalboard!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMid-Century Maverick.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the inherent warmth and luscious tape saturation to the forgotten art of how these machines were manipulated, Deco brings this original inspiration back, giving you these vintage tape effects from the earliest recording studios, right on your pedalboard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeco’s Tape Saturation smooths out your sound with familiar and delicious tape compression and saturation, while fattening your tone with subtle tape-driven transparent overdrive. The Doubletracker provides the power to shift your sound in many ways, easily allowing you to achieve syrupy slapback tape echoes, psychedelic tape flanging, and gorgeous tape chorusing sounds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClassic Sound, New Features.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur second generation Deco gives you the same gorgeous reel-to-reel tape sounds from our original, while adding several significant new features, incorporating technological advancements, hardware improvements and design enhancements to give you additional flexibility, power, and ease of use on stage and in the studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew Tonal Options - We’ve added new controls for even more sonic flexibility. Deco now comes with an all-new cassette tape voicing that employs an auto level control (ALC) process common to many high-end cassette tape recorders, resulting in a compressed, fat tone. In addition, a new dedicated Tone knob lets you adjust the tone of the Tape Saturation exactly to your liking, from dark to bright.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMIDI - Full MIDI implementation means you can control just about every switch, knob, and setting remotely by sending MIDI commands from your controller or DAW vial\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeco’s EXP\/MIDI jack or USB-C connection. Lag Deck delay time can be synchronized via MIDI Clock Sync, and the sync setting can be saved for each preset. 300 MIDI preset locations are available for loading and saving your favorite settings.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardware Improvements - A premium analog JFET input circuit ensures superb responsiveness to your playing, and you can select mono or stereo input with the flick of a rear panel switch. All this, plus a new ARM DSP chip provides more processing power for every sonic nuance, with less energy consumption on your pedalboard.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTape Saturation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGive your sound the smooth and warm qualities of analog tape, along with the enhanced touch sensitivity and playing dynamics that are intrinsic to the inner workings of tape machines. Achieve incredible transparency at low levels, with reduced high frequency spikes and a harmonically rich low end. Turn up the Saturation to increase the amount of tape drive, dynamic compression and distortion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeco is perfectly suited for a last-in-chain, “always on” sweetening effect. Everything sounds better on tape. Want to push the limits of tape beyond what was originally possible? Use Deco as a tape-style transparent overdrive—crank the Saturation all the way up to “peg the meters” and gently overload the machine’s input.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDoubletracker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGo back to the early days of recording studios, where a few creative audio engineers discovered a new world of augmented sound by pushing the limits of studio tape machines. By inventing automatic doubletracking, they introduced echo, flanging, and chorus to the world of recorded music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntensify and widen your sound with Deco’s Doubletracker controls. Turn the Lag Time to obtain classic slapback tape echo, spacious doubletrack chorusing, and mind-bending tape flanging. Add random modulation with the Wobble control and go from very subtle movement to more extreme undulations—just like having a recording engineer vary the speed of the machine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdd warm dimensionality and luscious tape saturation to your signal. Teleport the tones of yesteryear to your board. Deco is a jack of all trades capable of creating a huge range of beautiful, distinctive, and enveloping vintage sounds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTape Saturation Controls\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeco’s Tape Saturation side features controls for dialing in everything from light, transparent saturation all the way to smooth, overdriven tape distortion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Saturation knob allows for a wide range of tones that range from subtle saturation and compression at lower levels, to transparent tape overdrive at its upper limits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn adjustable Volume control for Deco’s Tape Saturation lets you raise the output volume when using Deco as a boost, or dial it back to achieve unity gain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur new generation of Deco features a dedicated Tone knob that lets you adjust the tone of your Tape Saturation, from darker to brighter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe new generation of Deco also introduces a Voice switch for an expanded range of available sounds. The Voice switch has two settings:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eclassic: produces the response and saturation characteristics of 2-track mastering reel to reel tape machines.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ecassette: employs an auto level control (ALC) process common to many high-end cassette tape recorders, resulting in a musically compressed, fat tone and a great-feeling response.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlend Type\u003cbr\u003eAdjusts phase and internal routing to customize tone and low-end response:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003esum: decks are in phase\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003einvert: Lag Deck is phase inverted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ebounce: right Lag Deck is bounced to left input for stereo ping-pong or mono double-echo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLag Time\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimply by turning Deco’s Lag Time knob, you can unlock a whole variety of organic, tape based modulation and delay effects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen adjusting the delay offset between Deco’s reference deck and the Lag Deck with the Lag Time knob, you can achieve everything from tape flanging at lower settings (-.3 to 3ms), increase that a bit for lush tape chorusing (3 to 50ms), followed by snappy slapback delay at longer delay times (50 to 150ms), all the way to spaced out tape echoes (150 to 500ms).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDoubletracker Controls\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn addition to Lag Time, Deco’s Doubletracker features additional controls to help you achieve a wide variety of tape based effects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Blend control sets the mix level between Deco’s Lag Deck and Reference Deck, and can be lowered to hear more of the Reference Deck for less doubletracking, or raised if you want to hear more of the doubletracking effect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeco’s Wobble knob adds random tape speed based modulations to the Lag Deck. Go from very subtle movement to more extreme undulations — just like having a recording engineer vary the speed of the machine. Wobble is super handy to increase the depth of the modulation effect you hear when Lag Time is set to act as a tape flanger\/chorus, or use it to add modulation to the Lag Deck when set as a slapback or tape echo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWide Stereo\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeco gives you the option for extremely wide stereo imaging to broaden and intensify the sound of your stereo rig.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWide Stereo Mode sends the mono input (summed if using a stereo input) to the Left channel through the Reference Deck, and to the right channel via the delayed Lag Deck to create an adjustable stereo spread.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Blend control acts like a pan control by adjusting the relative levels of the two tape decks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuto-Flange\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePress and hold the Doubletracker Bypass footswitch to achieve a recording studio-inspired through-zero flange effect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis engages a “virtual audio engineer” manning the faders and tape reels to create a smooth and predictable through-zero flange experience on the fly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter releasing the footswitch, the controls are smoothly returned to their previous settings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMIDI\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur new generation of Deco features full MIDI implementation, allowing you to control just about every switch, knob, and setting remotely by sending MIDI commands from your controller or DAW via Deco EXP\/MIDI jack or USB-C connection. Lag Time can be synchronized via MIDI Clock Sync, and the sync setting can be saved for each preset. 300 MIDI preset locations are available for loading and saving your favorite settings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRemotely bypass or engage the pedal, sync Lag Time changes along with your tracks, automate knob adjustments, recall unique presets for each song on your setlist — the possibilities with MIDI are limitless.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrue \u0026amp; Buffered Bypass\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeco lets you choose electromechanical relay switched true bypass for a 100% untouched, unprocessed signal when the pedal is bypassed (this is the default setting), or you can opt for our premium quality buffered bypass that conditions your signal to preserve its integrity by preventing the high end roll-off that can happen due to longer cable runs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJFET Input\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUncompromised dynamics and feel. 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