Description
PRELOVED STRYMON Brigadier Analog Delay
Preloved condition.
The Strymon Brigadier is a digital delay designed to recreate the feel, response and tonal character of classic analog bucket-brigade delays. Instead of using traditional BBD chips, it uses Strymon’s dBucket processing to model the behaviour of analog delay stages, giving you warm repeats, controllable degradation and far more delay time than a vintage analog unit could normally provide.
This is the original Brigadier, now discontinued, and it remains one of Strymon’s most focused delay pedals for players who want authentic analog-style repeats without giving up tap tempo, modulation, expression control and long delay times.
Three Delay Ranges
The Brigadier gives you three delay modes: Short from 40–400ms, Medium from 100–1000ms and Long from 500ms all the way to 5 seconds. That means it can cover slapback, classic analog delay, rhythmic repeats and much more spacious ambient sounds.
Bucket Loss Control
The standout feature is the Bucket Loss control. Turn it down for cleaner, warmer repeats, or increase it to add more saturation, noise and analog-style degradation. It is one of the reasons the Brigadier feels more interactive than a typical digital delay.
Dedicated Modulation & Filter Control
A dedicated Mod control adds movement to the delay time, while a secondary Filter control lets you make the repeats darker or brighter. Together, these controls let you move from subtle vintage-style modulation through to more obvious warble and lo-fi textures.
Tap Tempo & Infinite Repeats
The dedicated Tap footswitch gives you quarter-note, dotted-eighth and eighth-note-triplet subdivisions. Holding the Tap footswitch creates infinite repeats, making it easy to push the pedal into self-sustaining textures.
Expression & Favorite Control
The expression input can be assigned to control any knob parameter, or used with a compatible Favorite switch to recall a stored sound. This makes the Brigadier particularly useful in live setups where quick changes matter.
Key Features & Specifications
- Model: Strymon Brigadier dBucket Delay
- Discontinued original Brigadier model
- Hand-crafted dBucket analog delay algorithm
- Three delay modes: Short, Medium and Long
- Delay ranges: 40–400ms, 100–1000ms and 500ms–5s
- Tap subdivisions: Quarter, dotted eighth and eighth-note triplet
- Bucket Loss control
- Dedicated modulation control
- Secondary filter control
- Infinite repeats function
- Expression / Favorite input
- Mono input with internal TRS stereo-input option
- Stereo outputs
- Analog dry path
- 24-bit / 96kHz conversion
- True bypass or analog trails bypass
- Adjustable +/-3dB output boost/cut
- Input impedance: 1MΩ
- Output impedance: 100Ω
- Signal-to-noise ratio: approximately 115dB
- Frequency response: 20Hz–20kHz
- Maximum input level: +8dBu
- Dimensions: approximately 4.5" x 4" x 1.75"
- Power: 9V DC centre-negative
- Current requirement: minimum 250mA
Who Is It For?
The Brigadier is ideal for players who love analog delay character but also want tap tempo, longer delay times and deeper control. It suits blues, rock, ambient, shoegaze, worship and studio work equally well.
Our Take
The Brigadier is one of Strymon’s most convincing “analog without being analog” pedals. The Bucket Loss control is genuinely useful, the long delay mode opens up creative territory that traditional BBD pedals cannot reach, and the overall feel is still very musical rather than overly digital.
Available from Colemans Music South Melbourne with Fast Shipping Aus Wide.
