Strymon releases Brig dBucket Delay pedal in compact form

July 14, 2023 · 4 sources

Strymon announced the Brig dBucket Delay on July 14, 2023, and its press release carried a Westlake Village, CA dateline of July 18, 2023¹². The pedal uses the same smaller platform Strymon introduced with its Cloudburst ambient reverb, and the company describes it as sharing lineage with its Brigadier pedal while being "a new thing entirely"¹².

The Brig has three voices inspired by different bucket brigade circuits: 3205, 3005 and Multi, selected with a toggle switch²³⁴. Strymon says the 3205 voice delivers gritty repeats that morph as they feed back, the 3005 voice recreates a dual MN3005 BBD chip circuit, and the Multi voice uses two cross-coupled dBucket delay lines with golden ratio timing for a wide stereo field³⁴. Because the voices are modeled, Strymon says players can use delay times outside the normal range of the chips used in each voice, choosing tonal character separately from delay time, which it notes is not possible with analog bucket brigade pedals².

Controls are Time, Repeats, Mod, Mix and Filter, the Filter replacing the Brigadier's Bucket Loss control³⁴. The pedal has artifact-free tap tempo accessed via the bypass footswitch, with the Time knob then setting tap division among triplet, eighth, dotted eighth and quarter note³⁴. Connectivity includes stereo in and out on TRS jacks, a back-panel mono-stereo routing switch, USB C, TRS MIDI, 300 presets and a discrete JFET analog front end¹². Strymon also notes that at the shortest 30ms delay time with modulation at noon, the Brig works as a standalone bucket brigade chorus¹³.

The Brig is available directly from Strymon and at select dealers worldwide for $259 US². Strymon co-founder and CEO Gregg Stock said the pedal delivers "a ton of delay possibilities and IO flexibility in the smaller platform that we announced with Cloudburst, and at a smaller price"².