NightSky

NightSky by Strymon is a reverb pedal that offers a range of innovative features for experimental sound design. The hardware specifications include:

- Dry Signal: Analog Dry Path
- Input Impedance: 1M Ohm
- Output Impedance: 100 Ohm
- Input: 1/4″ TS (unbalanced)
- Outputs: 1/4″ TS (unbalanced)
- A/D & D/A: 24-bit 96kHz
- Max Input Level: +8dBu
- Frequency Response: 20Hz to 20kHz
- Signal to Noise: 115dB typical
- DSP Performance: 1585 MegaFLOPS
- Bypass Switching: True Bypass (electromechanical relay switching); optional Buffered Bypass or when using Stereo output
- Dimensions: 4.5” deep x 7” wide x 2.5” tall (11.4 cm deep x 17.8 cm wide x 6.0 cm tall)
- Power requirements: 9VDC center negative; 300mA minimum

NightSky is designed and built in the USA, and it offers a reverberant synthesis workstation with real-time continuous control of reverb pitch, processing rate, core size, harmonics, and a synth-like resonant filter with multiple modulation waveshapes. It also features a step sequencer with variable glide, providing a new standard in experimental reverb sound design.

The pedal allows for deep and powerful sound manipulation with instant response knob-tweaking and no menu diving, setting a new standard in experimental reverb sound design. It also achieves mind-bending sounds by using a Variable Process Rate for its reverb core, allowing simultaneous changes in the size of the reverb and the pitch, which can be completely smooth or quantized to a variety of musical scales and can be sequenced.

NightSky also includes a MOD section with various waveforms to modulate the reverb or tone filters, a TONE section to sculpt the high and low EQ of the reverb, a VOICE section to enhance the aural spectrum of the reverb, adjustable SHIMMER for adding pitch shifting of up to +/- 1 octave to the reverb, GLIMMER to dynamically enhance high or low frequency harmonics for synth-like textures, and more.

The pedal offers access to 16 presets from the front panel and 300 presets via MIDI, making it a versatile and powerful tool for musicians and sound designers.