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Description
The Strymon Deco Tape Saturation & Doubletracker is more than just a guitar pedal, it's a time machine that transports you back to the golden age of music. This versatile gear offers a unique, high-quality sound that is reminiscent of '50s and '60s recording studios. The Deco is not just a mere replication of the vintage tape effects, but a rebirth of the forgotten art of manipulating those reel-to-reel tape machines, right at your feet. The Tape Saturation feature offers a smooth tape compression and saturation, fattening your tone with a subtle, transparent overdrive. The Doubletracker introduces a new dimension to your sound, enabling you to create everything from syrupy slapback tape echoes to psychedelic tape flanging and stunning tape chorus sounds with ease.
Key Features:
- Tape Saturation, Tape Echo, Tape Chorus, Tape Flanger
- Controller for saturation, volume, blend, lag time and wobble
- Minitoggle switch: Sum, Invert and Bounce
- Tape Saturation Bypass
- Double Track Bypass
- 24 bit / 96 kHz A / DD / A converters
- Metal housing
- True bypass
- Includes 9V power supply
- Made in USA
Product specs
| Effects | chorus, delay, flanger |
| Power | 9V |
| Bypass | true bypass, buffered bypass |
| Analog/Digital | digital |
| Current Draw | 250ma |
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PROS
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Adds harmonic richness and subtle texture to tone
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Excellent for tape doubling, enhancing studio and live sound
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Quality tape saturation, chorus, flange, and delay effects
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Versatile, works well with various instruments including vocals and synths
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Stereo input option for broader soundscapes
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Can replace multiple pedals, saving space and setup complexity
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Warmth and analog character, particularly on bass and guitar
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Durable and high-quality build, as expected from Strymon
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Inspires creativity with extensive tonal possibilities
CONS
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Pricey, might be considered expensive for its subtle effects
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Some users find the effects bland compared to cheaper alternatives
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Limited stereo input requires adapters for optimal use
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Saturation may not significantly outperform good amp/guitar tweaking
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Tape echo considered inferior to other dedicated Strymon delays
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Sound can be dull and washy for guitar in live settings
Owner Insights
We analyzed real musician discussions from forums and Reddit to find what players love, question, and tweak about Strymon Deco Tape Saturation & Doubletracker.
User experience
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Owners note that the Deco's saturation complements a clean pedal platform, creating a faint 'glow' in the tone when using guitar volume knob adjustments.
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Owners using the Deco standalone find it optimally versatile, fulfilling multiple roles like overdrive and modulation without overwhelming options.
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Value and pricing
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The Deco's saturation is likened to the Fairfield Barbershop and Red Llama, offering a natural tube-like breakup without excessive tone coloration.
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Users have compared the Deco's saturation favorably to other pedals like the JPTR Jive and Dreamcoat, highlighting its unique tape reel saturation sound.
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Some users prefer the Deco's classic mode for guitar over cassette mode, which is more compressed and may suit synths or drums better.
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Use cases and applications
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The Deco excels in stereo mode, especially through two amps or stereo IR Sims like the Iridium, enhancing live performance setups.
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The Deco is effectively used as a stereo splitter in live setups, enhancing the sound when running dual amps physically spread apart.
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The Deco excels in stereo setups, providing lush chorus and flanger effects, and shines as a "sonic enhancer" with its always-on tape saturation feature.
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The Deco is often used in studio settings as outboard gear for mixing, enhancing tonal richness and taming highs in guitar chains.
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The Deco effectively simulates tape deck nuances on a master bus, providing warmth and texture to mixes, and is particularly powerful when paired with a JHS ColourBox.
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Features and functionality
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The Deco's EQ curve can significantly darken the sound when placed at the end of the chain, smoothing harsh highs and fizz.
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The Deco's saturation side is praised for its ability to enhance touch responsiveness when combined with pedals like the Greer Lightspeed at 18v.
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The pedal's modulation effects, based on tape machines, offer a broad but less tweakable range, serving as a versatile tool rather than a dedicated modulation solution.
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The lag time knob allows for a range of modulation effects, from tape flange to chorus to slapback echo, adding versatility to the pedal's functionality.
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Critic Reviews
5.0 out of 5
Based on 9 Reviews and 55 Ratings
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Decent, but has missed potential
Its a great idea for a guitar pedal, and it does many things well. But wasn’t quite as good as I was expecting as a former tape operator. Having the option to switch between different tape speeds (IPS) would have made this alot more realistic and versatile, could have been a small switch somewhere.
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single pedal pedalboard? maybe
The tape saturation side is so satisfying, almost an always on kind of thing. Just works so well with so much. Tape flange is excellent. Slapback is great. It is the sound from the past that is stuck in my head. Worth the cost and I'm not even touching the stereo options and most of the secondary functions of the controls.
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I have the Deco v2 and it's so much better.
I love the Deco so much. It's really helped with warming up my signal chain and having the v2 has really improved things with the tone knob and the stereo input switch on the back instead of inside the pedal.
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Of 1-10 (10 being best) I can only give this pedal a 6. All the hype about stellar sound was absent when I first plugged it in. Al though the tube sat. warmth is a nice feature I feel like its over rated. Same with the mod side and echo. It just feels sort of gimmiky to me. With a good amp and some patient tweaking of your guitar pots and other driv pedals you can achieve some very warm saturated sounds that (in my opinion) are very close to waht this pedal does. Does the tape echo hold up against Timefactor? Nope ... not even close.
157
Best slapback ever made!
Best slapback ever made! Saturation is a bit too bassy for humbuckers, but works well with a Fender amp and a guitar with singlecoils.
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have you used it to double through 2 amps?
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Yes, I have played around with a stereo setup. It works well for subtle doubling effect. Also, phaser and delay effects sound killer with two amps!
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Amazing tone machine
It does subtle analog saturated warmth and drive, but also wild and crazy stereo flange/chorus/delay effects. And it's Strymon, so very high quality!
It's just so much fun
This one pedal will take you ages to find just one tone to love it is awesome!!
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Super cool!
We did a entire synth album with our band Necromonkey and used this to fatten up weaker mono synths.
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In the YouTube video "Birds In Row #1" by FifuSan, Bart Hirigoyen's pedalboard is clearly visible at the 0:31 mark, and it shows the Strymon Deco Tape Saturation & Doubletracker positioned second left on the top row (second right on the bottom row in the video, as the board is displayed upside down). This footage is likely from the promotional shoot for the recording of Birds In Row's second LP, "We Already Lost the World."
In this video for Fretboard Journal, Mason Stoops does a quick overview of his gear while touring with Mumford and Sons. There are a lot of custom and heavily modified guitars, but amp-wise Mason Stoops has an Austen Hooks Projector Amp and a Space Heater, a quarter box Leslie cabinet, a Shure PA Cabinet, a Kalamazoo Model 2 and a Peavey Studio Chorus. In his pedalboard, he has a Gamechanger Audio Plus, a Gamechanger Audio Bigsby, a Diamond Compressor, a Tech 21 Comptortion, a Sound Gas Grampian Mic Preamp, a Digitech Freqout, a Digitech Digiverb, a Line 6 DL4 Mk2, a Strymon Flint and a Strymon Deco.
In a photo from a concert at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, October 2017, Melina Duterte (Jay Som) is seen using the Strymon Deco Tape Saturation & Doubletracker pedal.
In the video titled "My Synth Studio Revealed | Studio Tour 2025" by Anthony Marinelli Music, at the timestamp 13:14, a Strymon Deco Tape Saturation & Doubletracker is visibly located on the far right of Anthony Marinelli's pedalboard setup.
In this interview with Strymon posted May 7, 2021, Harrison Whitford states: "My pedalboard currently consists of a Dunlop mini volume pedal, a TC Electronic Polytune, a JHS Mini Foot Fuzz, an amazing vibrato pedal my friend Morgan Travis (who does sound for Phoebe) built called the Grid Manipulator, The Deco, a Digitech Digiverb, a Flint and a Line 6 Echo Park. "
In a photograph from a recording session in June 2025, a Strymon Deco Tape Saturation & Doubletracker pedal is clearly visible on Brian Murphy's pedalboard, confirming its use.
Abbey Blackwell incorporates the Strymon Deco Tape Saturation & Doubletracker pedal into her setup, as confirmed by a user-uploaded photo.
In a SadGirl Instagram Story, Misha Lindes is shown using the Strymon Deco Tape Saturation & Doubletracker pedal.
Frans van Zoest is shown using the Strymon Deco Tape Saturation & Doubletracker in a user-uploaded photo, highlighting its role in his effects setup.
In the video Palace's Rupert Tuner - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 468, Rupert Tuner details his pedalboard, and at 3:40 he talks about his Strymon Deco Tape Saturation & Doubletracker pedal:
...just a clean boost. Also I can use it as a phaser or delay. Kind of based on a double tape tracker thing. So you can put the tapes out of sync with each other, that's the idea. So you get saturation and boost and the other tape speed you can change it...
Album Usage
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