Strymon product names: Brig? Riverside?

[David MacNeill]

Anybody know what these pedal names signify? I bought both because they sound spectacular but what the hell do these silly names mean?

Iridium? WTF?

 

[Neotrope]

Stole some iridium and ended up in the brig in Riverside ...

 

[David MacNeill]

Stole some iridium and ended up in the brig in Riverside ...

As one does. Got a Cloudburst and got all wet too.

 

[Joe Porto]

No clue about Riverside. Sounds kinda bluesy though. Brig is from bucket brigade delay, which it emulates.

 

[klasaine]

Riverside Drive is a fairly famous road that cuts through all of L.A. from the valley and into the city. In Pulp Fiction, Bruce Willis rides his motorcycle down part of it when he’s trying to get out of town or back to his girlfriend (Zed is dead). So, I don’t know - maybe just a play on words(?).

 

[MaxTwang]

Riverside was the original setting for Breaking Bad but was changed to Albuquerque during filming (too difficult to visually isolate locations). So, maybe Strymon chose "Riverside Drive" because it sounded better than Strymon's original name "Meth Box"?

 

[David MacNeill]

I don't know why BRIGade didn't occur to me. So much for being an English Lit major.

 

[SimonA]

Anybody know what these pedal names signify? I bought both because they sound spectacular but what the hell do these silly names mean?

Iridium? WTF?

Iridium is an expensive and rare metal. Strymon‘s IRidium is built around IRs, comes in a metal enclosure and at the time when it was released it was a rare and expensive approach to sell only three amp models for 400 bucks.

 

[cheerful hamster]

Riverside Drive is a fairly famous road that cuts through all of L.A. from the valley and into the city. In Pulp Fiction, Bruce Willis rides his motorcycle down part of it when he’s trying to get out of town or back to his girlfriend (Zed is dead). So, I don’t know - maybe just a play on words(?).

This is probably close to the truth, because the next two Strymon pedals after Riverside were Sunset and Zelzah. Sunset Blvd is of course famous, and Zelzah Avenue is another street in the Valley and the former name of Northridge.