Strymon may have just unveiled the pinnacle of delay pedal design with the TimeLine MX Multi Delay – an astonishingly feature-packed workstation that looks to blow the competition out of the water.
However, all that innovation comes at a cost: the TimeLine MX will cost you $679. So, not only is it perhaps the most advanced delay pedal of all time, it could also be the most expensive.
To put that into perspective, its predecessor, the TimeLine Multi Delay, weighed in at $449.
Elsewhere on the market, the Meris LVS Modular Delay costs around $599, the Line 6 DL4 MKII is priced at $299, and the Boss DD-500 will set you back $399.
But make no mistake – the TimeLine MX Multi Delay isn’t your average delay pedal. This isn’t for your standard slapbacks or springs (though, at $649, you can bet it would do those effects just fine).
Instead, this is for the delay connoisseurs out there – the pedal aficionados who make delay experimentation and layered echoes a core part of their playing style. For many players, it will be simply too much. In the right hands, though, it could be the only delay pedal you’ll ever need – and then some.
“And then some” is accurate, because this thing is jammed with features. It has 12 delay engines, two of which can be run at once for the first time. A new OLED display has been updated. Three footswitches. Nine control knobs. Did we mention the five-minute stereo looper? Yeah, it’s got one of those.
It’s a dizzying spec sheet to scroll through. Elsewhere, there are new sounds in the form of Oil Can and Drum Echo, and Spectral. The latter is a glitchy granular delay for oddball textures, while the former are vintage-y delays.
There’s also more power under the hood, courtesy of a tri-core MHz ARM processor, to keep everything ticking over, and fully expansive series, parallel, and split routing options with full stereo and MIDI support.
“It’s taken a long time, but the day is finally here”, says Gregg Stock, Strymon’s CEO and analog guru. “I’m really proud of the entire group that worked on this project and what they’ve accomplished.
“It takes a diverse collection of talented folk to create a product like this, and everyone brought their ‘A’ game to work every day.”
It’s a delay pedal built for professionals and one that has likely raised the bar for the market. But with a price tag that reaches into multi-effects territory, it's likely to pique the interest of only the most ardent delay fans.
The TimeLine MX Multi Delay is available now for $679.
Head over to Strymon for more.
