“The first pedal emulation that truly captures the mechanical yet wildly organic nature of these oddball machines”: Strymon’s Olivera is a vintage oil can delay without the oil, without the mechanics, and with a lot more control over your tone

The Strymon Olivera is a five-knob stompbox in bronze-brown that offers an emulation of an oil-can delay.

Strymon has expanded its lineup of delay pedals with the Olivera, a compact but feature-packed emulation of a vintage oil can echo unit that provides all that weird mojo of the original mechanical units, but, well, with modern conveniences and then some.

This being a Strymon production, the bus is being driven by state-of-the-art digital processing, with the Olivera’s ARC processor providing the brains and the muscle of a pedal that gives players up to 300 presets, full MIDI control, mono or stereo operation, and comprehensive control over shaping those repeats.