Perfectly Emulated Classic Bucket Brigade Delay

The delays that become true classics do not simply repeat the notes you play.

They do something special to each delay repeat – something that evokes a feeling, fuelling the music and inspiring you.

Plug into Brig, play a note, and you’re instantly drawn in by repeats that evolve with captivating complexity and uncommonly rich tonal characteristics.

Brig delivers all the warmth, subtle grit and unique tactile playing experience of analog bucket brigade delays (BBDs), offering three distinct delay voicings in one highly addictive stereo pedal.

Three Delays in One

Brig’s stunning dBucket sound generation gives you three different and meticulously crafted analog delay voicings.

The 3205 voice delivers gritty repeats that can morph as it feeds back, creating sounds ranging from gorgeous slapback echoes to psychedelic sci-fi effects.

The 3005 voice recreates a dual MN3005 BBD chip circuit running at 15V for longer delay times, higher headroom, and warm repeats with a soft, dreamlike quality.

The Multi voice features two cross-coupled, super-clean dBucket delay lines with golden ratio timing to create complex soundscapes and a huge stereo soundfield that remains musical and clean even while sitting on the edge of self-oscillation.

Deceptively Powerful

Brig is a triumph of compact design, offering a huge amount of power and flexibility in an elegantly small form factor: Three truly distinct delay voices. Artifact-free tap tempo. Stereo operation. Straightforward responsive controls and expression pedal capability. High-impedance, ultra-low noise discrete Class A JFET stereo input preamp for exceptional touch sensitivity, dynamics and feel. MIDI control for tempo, patch save/recall, and more. Premium components, rugged construction, and a USB jack for controlling the pedal via MIDI from a computer or for performing firmware updates.

Brig’s voices are crafted with an attention to detail that encompasses not only the characteristics of the BBD chips, but also the surrounding circuitry responsible for turning those early designs into the classics they are considered today.

Companding, filtering, and noise reduction techniques played important parts in the final sound and dynamic response of those time-honored delay circuits, and Brig has captured them all.

Limitless Possibilities.

Brig features full MIDI implementation and 300 presets, allowing you to control it remotely by sending MIDI commands from your controller or DAW via the EXP/MIDI jack or USB-C connection.

Remotely bypass or engage the pedal, automate decay time or other knob adjustments in your DAW or recall unique presets for each song on your setlist — the possibilities with MIDI are limitless.

Controls & Routing

Hover over the interactive dots to learn more about Brig’s knobs, switches, and inputs/outputs.

FILTER
Adjusts the EQ filtering, noise, and bucket loss of the repeats based on the selected VOICE.

MOD
Adds LFO modulation to the delay time. Modulation is off at the 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.

TIME
Controls the delay time according to the selected VOICE. Delay clock is continuously variable so that turning it while repeats are
happening can produce interesting pitch effects.

MIX
Controls the delay mix from full dry at minimum to full wet with no dry signal at maximum. A 50/50 mix occurs at approximately 3 o’clock on the knob.

VOICE
3205: 30–300ms — Recreates the character of vintage delay pedals that used a single low voltage MN3205 BBD chip for gritty repeats—great for slap back, leads, and sci-fi sounds

3005: 100ms–1 sec — Recreates the character of vintage delay pedals that used two MN3005 BBD chips at higher voltage for longer delay times with a dreamy quality

multi: Creates complex soundscapes using two cross-coupled, super-clean BBD delay lines with golden ratio timing
 

FOOTSWITCH
Engages and disengages the effect. The RED
LED on at the top of the pedal indicates that
the effect is engaged. 

Press and hold the footswitch for 1 second to enter/exit TAP mode and tap quarter notes to set your delay time. The LED will flash RED
and BLUE to indicate the tempo.

REPEATS
Varies the number of delay repeats from one to runaway oscillation. Set to 3 o’clock for sustained, infinite repeat without runaway

IN
High impedance, ultra low-noise, discrete Class A JFET preamp input.

TRS adapter cable required for stereo input signal (not included).

OUT
Low impedance stereo TRS output. Use TS cable for mono output or TRS for stereo output.

EXP/MIDI
Multifunction communication jack for external control of Brig's features and functions. Use a standard TRS expression pedal for continuous control over the knobs of the pedal (default setting).

Can be set to operate in one of five modes: Expression Pedal, Favorite, Tap Tempo, Infinite, or MIDI Mode. See User Manual for details.

9V DC
Use a power supply with the following rating: 2.1mm, 9VDC, center negative, 250mA minimum. Power supply not included.

TRS SWITCH
mono: mono input, mono output

mono stereo: mono input, stereo output

stereo: stereo input, stereo output

NOTE: Stereo operation requires a TRS adapter or cable.

USB
Computer connection for controlling Brig via MIDI, for performing firmware updates and for connection to Strymon’s Nixie editor/librarian software (coming soon).

Specs

Ins, Outs, and Switches

• High impedance ultra low-noise discrete Class A JFET TRS stereo input
• Low impedance TRS stereo output
• Expression pedal input allows the connection of a TRS expression pedal, MiniSwitch, MultiSwitch Plus, or TRS MIDI connection
• USB jack for controlling via MIDI from a computer or for performing firmware updates

Audio Quality

• Premium JFET analog front end
• Ultra low noise, high performance 24-bit 96kHz A/D and D/A converters provide uncompromising audio quality
• 520MHz ARM Superscalar processor
• 32-bit floating point processing
• 20Hz to 20kHz frequency response
• Audio Input Impedance: 1M Ohm
• Audio Output Impedance: 100 Ohm
• Typical signal to noise ratio: 116dB

More

• Strong and lightweight anodized aluminum chassis
• Power requirements: maximum 9 volts DC center-negative, with a minimum of 250mA (power supply NOT included)
• Dimensions:
  • 4.6” deep x 2.7” wide x 2.5” tall
  • 11.7 cm deep x 6.9 cm wide x 6.4 cm tall
• Designed and built in the USA