Riverside is the culmination of a thorough analysis of numerous analog and vacuum tube circuits. Strymon's goal? To deliver a new world of harmonically rich, incredibly versatile, tube-inspired drive sounds. They didn't want to build just another distortion or overdrive. They knew we must examine what has been done, and bring a new approach to the world of drive sounds. Riverside's cascading gain stages create harmonically rich tones that are immensely musical and natural-from silky clean overdr