Strymon BigSky MX Stereo Reverb

If you know even the slightest bit about effects pedals, and you know what reverb is, there’s a 99% chance you’ve heard of the Strymon BigSky Reverberator. One of the most popular reverb pedals ever created, it set a new bar across the board for how reverb could sound. Today, we’re so stoked to bring you Strymon‘s brand new take on this pedal, the BigSky MX – the new pinnacle of what a reverb pedal can be has arrived.

In BigSky MX, raw computational power meets innovative design and consummate sonic craftsmanship to give you positively sublime reverbs with stunning new levels of richness and complexity. These are sounds to inspire new creative works and endless hours of playing. BigSky MX features a staggering amount of computing power — it uses a high performance tri-core 800 MHz ARM processor — all dedicated to producing truly breathtaking reverbs.

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BigSky MX allows you to use two reverbs at once, for powerful sound sculpting and expansive reverb sounds that evolve organically over time. You can switch between reverb engines with a single button press while editing, and easily see the Series, Parallel or Split audio routing state clearly displayed onscreen. For a more interactive experience, you can dedicate a footswitch to control each reverb’s on/off state if you desire.

• 12 world-class reverb machines that encompass seven brand-new algorithms in addition to significant enhancements to the other classics.
• Two reverbs at once with Series, Parallel and Split audio routing, and a new pan control per engine.
• 10s impulse response playback with full editing capability, and custom long IR captures of classic studio gear.
• Stereo inputs and outputs using our discrete Class A JFET input preamps.
• Dedicated Infinite/Freeze footswitch for creating lush pads to play over, a crisp OLED display, DIN and TRS MIDI I/O, USB-C, expression pedal and more, all in a robust, easy-to-use and elegant pedal.

BigSky MX features seven brand new reverb algorithms built from the ground up, plus new features and enhancements for the classic BigSky algorithms. Impulse and Chamber were created specifically for BigSky MX, and Spring, Plate, Hall, Room and Shimmer boast entirely new handcrafted algorithms while still giving you access to the original BigSky voices for each one. Within every reverb type on BigSky MX, there are new sounds and features ready for you to explore.

BigSky MX comes preloaded with 22 impulse responses, consisting of a number of different types of captures. There are wonderful impulses of a number of different natural spaces in the collection, but Strymon also wanted to give you some IR’s that were unique to MX. As a result, they spent days in studios creating their very own long captures of classic analog studio gear, as well as some oddball units owned and restored by one of our analog engineers. The result is a bunch of super-inspiring sounds, from real analog plate and unobtanium mainframe reverb units to wacky forgotten spring reverb tanks and tape echoes. There is a wealth of creativity waiting in the Impulse bank!

BigSky MX gives you powerful editing tools to intuitively manipulate impulse responses in real time. Set decay envelopes, gate the reverb tail, reverse the entire IR, resample on the fly to shorten or stretch the impulse, and create infinitely sustaining granular pads at the press of the Infinite footswitch. Any compatible audio file can be loaded, allowing you to use IRs for everything from hyperrealistic spaces to wacky experimentation. The new MX reverb algorithms feature multi-modulation, which varies the delay times of individual reflections. As a result, turning up the Mod knob results in a natural sense of movement, more like the movement of air in a room than an obvious modulation effect. And even with zero modulation, reverb tails are smooth and musical and resolve to silence beautifully — even at the longest decay times.

In short, this pedal is AMAZING. There’s more information on the BigSky MX than you want to read here available on the Strymon website, so we suggest you get over there…well, as soon as you’re done watching our 20-minute demo video below, of course (don’t forget to like, comment and subscribe while you’re on YouTube!). Owners of the original BigSky are gonna love what Strymon has done with it, and new users are going to be completely blown away by all it is capable of…they’ve done it again, folks – cheers, Strymon!!