Strymon Bluesky User Manual

USER MANUAL

Reverberator

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Front Panel

DECAY: Controls the decay
time of the reverberated signal.

Set low for small rooms, plates
and short springs. Set high for
huge arenas, massive plates
and enormous springs.

LOW DAMP:
Controls the
amount of Low
Damping in the
reverberated signal.
Acts essentially
like a tone control
resulting in more or
less low end in the
reverb decay trail.

PRE-DELAY: Controls the delay time
before the reverberated signal appears.
This is an essential control in creating an
accurate and pleasing reverb.

TIP: for most natural results, use lower

MIX settings when using higher Pre-delay.

MODE SWITCH:
Switches between 3 reverb modes (normal,
mod, shimmer). Normal mode provides an
unmodified version of the selected reverb type.
Mod adds gorgeous modulation to the selected
reverb type. Shimmer mode adds regenerative
octave up pitch shifting “in the tank” for a
reverb trail that rises into the clouds with
a plate. For Spring and Room shimmer, an
octave plus a fifth is regeneratively introduced.

MODE

norm

mod

shimmer

PRE-DELAY

MIX: Controls the balance of dry
signal and wet signal from 100%

dry at minimum to 100% wet
at maximum. The mix occurs
entirely in analog.

TYPE SWITCH:
Switches between 3 different types of reverb (plate,
room, spring). Plate gives you an intensely high
quality vintage studio plate type reverb. Room
type is a versatile room ranging in size from a
bedroom to an arena. Spring provides an excellent
recreation of the best vintage spring reverbs.

TIP: Adjust LOW DAMP and HIGH DAMP controls

with the spring type reverb to vary the color and

age of your spring tank.

TYPE

plate

room

spring

MIXDECAY

HIGH DAMPLOW DAMP

HIGH DAMP:

Controls the amount of
High Damping in the
reverberated signal.
Acts essentially like a
tone control resulting in
more or less high end in
the reverb decay trail.

re v e r b e rator

FAVORITE FOOTSWITCH:

Press to select saved favorite sound. When FAVORITE LED is lit
the favorite setting is engaged. When each knob is turned, the
LED will indicate the saved favorite position of the knob. Push and
hold the foot switch to save a new favorite sound.

TIP: Hold down FAVORITE and BYPASS while turning the MIX knob to achieve a +/- 3dB

Boost or Cut when the pedal is engaged (12:00 on the Mix knob is unity gain).

BYPASSFAVORITE

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BYPASS FOOTSWITCH:

Engages and disengages effect. Bypass mode is true bypass by
default. LED on indicates that the effect is engaged. TIP: Hold
the bypass footswitch during power up to change the bypass
mode to analog bypass with trails (reverb persist).

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