Strymon Riverside Users

[BlockInlay]

now that @Chad has one and hopefully @Mark Wein checks one out, let’s discuss!


I’ve been using mine for about two years now and am still in love with it. It worked great with the clean channel on my Orange and is a perfect pedal for me now that I’m using my DRRI.

I use a high gain setting for solos and our heavier songs and a real crunchy setting for the rest of the unclean parts I play.

I’m also set up to use the noise gate, boost, and volume pedal features, all of which work whether the pedal is engaged or not.

I tinkered using MIDI when I had a DMC-4 Gen3 and the pedal worked great for that (3 banks of 128 presets available!!!!)... but the dmc just wasn’t my cup of tea.

I consistently get compliments on my tone at gigs. Not my playing tho

 

[Chad]

I'm hoping to get some time to dig a little deeper into it. Right now, I've got it set Drive 2: 00, Level 11: 00, Bass 2: 00, Middle 2: 00, Treble 11: 00, Gain Low, and Push Mid. That is working great with my Tele into the clean channel on the Marshall.

 

[BlockInlay]

Presence switch?

 

[BlockInlay]

Drive 2
Level 10-11
BMT all around 2
Gain high
Mid push
Presence neutral

Just rips through my DRRI

 

[BlockInlay]

My less gain setting is:

Drive 12
Level 11
BMT 2, 11, 2
Gain low
Push normal
Presence neutral

 

[Chad]

Presence switch?

Good question

Just checked, -

 

[Chad]

Drive 2
Level 10-11
BMT all around 2
Gain high
Mid push
Presence neutral

Just rips through my DRRI

Holy crap. That sounded amazing through my clean Marshall. Could be the best it's ever sounded.

 

[BlockInlay]

Holy crap. That sounded amazing through my clean Marshall. Could be the best it's ever sounded.

Fuck yeah!

 

[Chad]

Finally got the favorite switch. I couldn't get the boost setup so I ended up doing a factory reset on it and now it's all working. Hopefully I'll get some time tonight or tomorrow to mess with it some more.

 

[Modern Saint]

I liked it when I attended the Strymon Social. FWIW, it did what I wanted it too.

 

[Guitar Heel]

you guys are the worst.

 

[BlockInlay]

I’ve got the Riverside connected via midi to the ES-8 now. Endless dirt options

 

[Guitar Heel]

well now I want another one.

 

[Chad]

well now I want another one.

I was thinking the same thing. That would be the perfect drive for my deLisle

 

[BlockInlay]

You can control any aspect of it via midi as well. The knobs and switch settings, noise gate, boost, presence, yadda yadda.

I’ve got Marshall tones, 80s metal, scooped nu metal, fat bluesy drive, subtle boosted shit, TS sounds, I’m going insaaaaaaaaaaane