strymonengineering

Yes, we'll call it "Das Boot" and it will come with a steel toe. We're working on a pedal that will make your drummer stop playing when you're trying to talk. That will be called "STFU"

• We can neither confirm nor deny ties to Russian organized crime
• We are Batman
• Strawberry Kit Kats solve everything
• The bodies are buried in the Nevada desert
• Dumbledore dies

Well, I can't speak for everyone else, but our algorithms combine both empirical and and simulation approaches. For example, our dBucket technology actually solves a host of equations to determine the capacitor charge on each stage of a BBD chip, and our Reflections Reverb algorithm calculates room reflections for a given source location in a varying room size and shape. But we take the approach that product design contains equal amounts of art and science, so we always use our ears and add some of our own interpretation to the end result. For lots of interesting and educational material on the state of simulation techniques, check out https://ccrma.stanford.edu/ for hours of fun.

Pete (dsp engineer / sound designer)

So you've got to look back several thousand years before the advent of effects pedals! In Greek mythology, Strymon was a river god, who had a son with Euterpe, one of the nine goddesses of music, song, and dance. The name really resonated with us, and we were fond of the mythical connection to music and creativity.

Ethan (marketing geek)

1. Haha! That was an excellent product mockup you created. Didn't cause us any trouble, but it definitely seemed to fool some on TGP!
2. Yes we are certainly not opposed to it. With everything that we design we always want to try to bring something new to the table. So if we did decide to go this route we'd want to be sure that we offer something that no one else can.
3. No openings at the moment, but if we need some renderings I think we know who to call!

Ethan (marketing nerd)