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STRYMON NIGHTSKY

Strymon describes its latest flagship stompbox as a reverberant synthesis workstation and an experimental hands-on sound-design platform. This means two things: one, it’s essentially a very fancy reverb; and two, we have absolutely no chance of getting all the way through this review without using the phrase ‘ambient soundscapes’. You have been warned.

Since the turn of the century, thanks to huge developments in the power of digital signal processing, reverb has probably been the single effect type that’s evolved more than any other. Now the race is on to see just how far that technology can be pushed – and the promise of the NightSky is new levels of otherworldly freakishness,

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