Strymon Brigadier User Manual

USER MANUAL

dBucket Delay

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Brigadier - dBucket Delay User Manual

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Front Panel

TIME: Controls the delay
time according to the selected

delay mode. Delay clock
is continuously variable so
that turning it while repeats
are happening can produce
interesting pitch effects.

BUCKET LOSS:
Controls the

amount of bucket
loss at each stage
in the dBucket
algorithm, from no
loss at minimum,
to full noisy loss at
maximum. Set to
3:00 to get maximum
distortion loss with
just a hint of noise.
Increasing from 3:00
adds more noisy
loss. TIP: Hold TAP
and BYPASS while
turning the knob to
adjust the filter for
darker or brighter
repeats (see pg 5 for
more info).

REPEATS: Varies the
number of repeats from
one to runaway oscillation.
When set to 3:00, a
sustained infinite repeat is
achieved without runaway.

MODE SWITCH:
Controls the delay time range
by adjusting the number of

dBucket ‘chips’ in the delay.
Short mode ranges from
40ms to 400 ms, med from
100ms to 1000ms, and long
from 500ms to 5s

MODE

short

med
long

dBucket delay

TAP

REPEATS

TAP SWITCH:
Changes the tap
subdivision between
quarter notes,
dotted eighth notes,
and eighth note
triplets.

quarter

dot

triplet

MODBUCKET LOSS

BYPASSTAP

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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. Set to 3:00 to
get a 50/50 mix.

MIXTIME

MOD:

Adds LFO modulation
to the delay time.
Modulation is off at
minimum setting. The
modulation speed is
slow in the first half
of the knob, and fast
in the second half of
the knob, increasing in
intensity as the knob is
turned clockwise.

TAP FOOTSWITCH:
Tap quarter notes to set the delay time.

The TAP LED will flash to indicate the
tempo. TIP: Holding the tap footswitch will
result in infinite repeats.

TIP: Hold down BYPASS and TAP 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).

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 (delay persist).

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Brigadier - dBucket Delay User Manual

Rear Panel

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INPUT

High impedance
mono input.

EXP

RIGHT OUTLEFT OUT

Stereo outputs.
Use LEFT OUT
for mono signal
output.

9VDC

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Standard 9V DC center
negative power input.
250 mA available
current required.

Connect a standard TRS
expression pedal for continuous
control over any selectable knob
parameter. To select the knob
controlled by the expression
pedal, hold the TAP footswitch
during power up. The first knob
turned is then then assigned
to the expression pedal. The
maximum position the knob
is turned up to becomes the
expression pedal “toe down”
maximum value.

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