Strymon
Latest Strymon guitar news, new electric and acoustic guitars, signature models, artist collaborations, and releases tracked by Guitar Radar.
Guitar Radar follows Strymon through 1 story and 1 product release, covering new gear, launches and company news as they happen. Most of it sits under gear. The most recent story, from Sep 30, 2026, is “Strymon turns vintage tape saturation into the all-analog La Brea drive pedal”. The newest product in the releases catalog is the Strymon La Brea Analog Tape Drive.
About Strymon
Strymon grew out of Damage Control, a pedal company started in 2004 by analog engineer Gregg Stock and industrial designer Lucian Tu. DSP specialist Pete Celi, who had worked with Stock at Alesis and Line 6, and firmware engineer Dave Fruehling joined, and the group built tube-driven distortion boxes before moving to DSP-based pedals such as the TimeLine and Glass Nexus.
Those early pedals were well reviewed but sold weakly, and the team spent time on consulting work until the Strymon name appeared in 2009 with the all-analog OB.1 compressor. Since then it has become a standard-setter for digital pedals, with BigSky reverb, TimeLine delay, El Capistan tape echo, Flint tremolo and reverb and the Iridium amp and cab modeler among its best-known products.
Stock handles analog design, Celi sound design and algorithms, and Fruehling firmware and software. Guitar Radar follows Strymon's new pedals, firmware updates and special editions.
Sources: Strymon: 10-year anniversary · Mixdown: With Strymon, the BigSky's the limit
