Strymon Mobius

I used to not like modulation effects too much, only tremolo. But the years went by and I already had Uni-Vibe kind of pedal on my pedalboard, then Leslie simulator. Then flanger. And then I was looking for phaser and then I noticed one other really cool?. You get the point, my pedalboard was already too full and too big. I have to mention that I play only vintage style tube amps and use analog-effects (except delay).

As I was looking around for other possibilities and was interested to check digital effects development (I haven't used digital guitar gear for ages), I came across Strymon. The need for access to all kinds of modulation effects was pretty urgent and just ordered it after looking some demos on the internet, which did impress me quite a bit.

And I have to admit that Mobius is excatly as Strymon promises it to be. It does not sound like somekind on effect put on top of guitar signal. It really becomes a part of the guitar sound. The tremolo can oscillate in very smoothly or all the opposite, it's possible to make it totally chopping at almost any rate. Leslie simulator is outstanding, vibe is excactly as you expect it to be. So are flanger, chorus, phaser etc. Plus (!) with expression pedal you can control every effect's parameters that you would like. And you even can have it as wah-wah. The wah-wah isn't close to real vintage CryBaby/Vox (but then again, what is), but on some gigs the wah-wah does the trick. Especially the autowah for some songs. The are some cool/funny effects to mess around, but check the demo by Strymon.

And the best of all, you can save your settings. You can switch them quite easily. And of course it has tap function.

As I already have written too much and I still have not covered all the possibilities, the Strymon is heavily recommended. It is pricey, but well? would you like to buy all these quality effects separately?

I bought this pedal 2-3 months ago. At first I didn't like it because it added so much noise to my tone, but after changing my power supply the problem was solved. Needless to say that whatever effect you need or sound, you can find it on here. Even if it's chorus or a flanger or seriously whatever. It takes a while to get used to all the parameters and how they work but once you learn how to use it you can produce any sound from any record or song you can imagine. It works perfectly with my other pedals. You have 10-15 pedals with the price of 3. So it's worth it. It's not that big, and it's very well built. It's very easy to use it on stage, and even if it seems complicated it's not. I have all my sounds saved after bank 20, so depending on what songs I'm playing on the day, I copy and paste them on the first banks with the order I want, so there is no tap dancing between my parts. It doesn't affect my signal at all, and even if it has so many different functions, every single one is top quality. I would definitely suggest this pedal for anyone who wants to produce more than just an ordinary guitar tone.

A friend let me borrow their Mobius one weekend but having always been a bit of a analog snob I was sure I wouldn't 'get' this pedal. After using it for all of 5 minutes I was absolutely blown away - this thing just sounds too good. Before the night was out I had ordered one from Thomann. It has replaced at least half a dozen effects on my board. As I don't use huge amounts of modulation and since I only ever use them one at time, I really don't mind having to switch through banks of presets. I may consider purchasing a Disaster Audio DMC3 in the near future to get around this small issue. There's enough modulation in this box to meet the needs of any professional musician in any genre of music. With the Timeline and now this, Strymon have really raised the bar. If you're looking at this now, my advice is buy it!