New Strymon Volante Magnetic Echo Machine Guitar Effects Pedal

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Sounds From The Expanse.

Create instant retrofuture atmosphere with evocative vintage delay tones. Activate your imagination with evolving ambient echoes and warm, organic feedback with just the right amount of grit. Sculpt your soundscape in real time as Volante becomes an extension and expansion of your musical instrument. Infuse your pedalboard with stunning vintage vibes that resonate and inspire.

Three Magnetic Delay Types, Spring Reverb, Looper, and More.

Delivering truly exceptional sound quality and intuitive playability, Volante is designed to radically enhance the sonic expressiveness of your pedalboard. Featuring magnetic drum echo, tape echo, and reel-to-reel studio echo, Volante is a stereo multi-head delay that also offers a looper and vintage spring reverb, with powerful sound-sculpting controls for limitless sonic possibilities.

Vintage Vibe.

To capture the nuance and complexity of classic tape and drum echo machines, every last magnetic delay system attribute was relentlessly studied and faithfully recreated. From the sought-after natural saturation and soft clipping of magnetic media when driven hard, to hands-on real-time controls for mechanics, wear, head-spacing, and low cut, Volante instantly adds tons of vibe to your sound.

Multi-Head Maven.

Volante provides the full experience and sonic attributes of iconic multi-head echo machines. At the center of Volante’s control surface are four delay playback heads with individual feedback, panning, and level controls—delivering unlimited creative options right at your fingertips. All of this range allows the creation of complex rhythmic patterns as well as reverb-like atmospheric textures.

Drum Delay With Unprecedented Control.

Magnetic drum echoes are famous for their warmth and for their harmonically rich and saturated sounds. Every sonic aspect of our favorite drum echoes has been meticulously reproduced within Volante. Dial in any possible sound from the full range of the best vintage drum echo units in conditions ranging from fresh-from-factory to road-worn classic.

Classic Tape Echo Experience.

Volante gives you superbly crafted multi-head tape echoes, including the smooth tape saturation and the characteristic imperfections and nonlinearities inherent to the sound of those vintage machines. Mechanical alignment, head wear, and tape crinkles, splices, and contaminants are all accounted for in Volante, giving you all the richness and complexity of a classic tape echo, with modern control and stability.

True Studio Tape Sound.

Of Volante’s three magnetic echo types, the Studio Echo provides the cleanest sound, able to sustain the highest number of repeats with minimal degradation. Volante gives you a pristine studio delay with the full-bodied warmth and fidelity of reel-to-reel tape.

Features

Set Playback Level and Feedback for Each Head. Each head’s playback level can be set for full volume, half volume, or off. Independent of playback level, you can switch each head in or out of the feedback circuit, allowing the creation of interesting and complex rhythmic patterns as well as unique atmospheric delay textures.

Magnetic Record Head Saturation. Turn up the Record Level knob to increase the gain of Volante’s analog class-A JFET input preamp circuit, sending a hot signal with analog warmth to the record head for any amount of saturation you desire.

Dedicated Spring Reverb. We captured this vintage vibe while creating a spring reverb with a gorgeous, gentle character that stands on its own, in addition to enhancing delayed signals.

Instant Access to Eight Presets. The playback/feedback buttons represent preset locations, and you can use the FAVORITE footswitch to recall from or save to any of those eight locations. MIDI gives you access to 300 preset locations.

Variable Head Spacing. Volante gives you a SPACING control that is adjustable between Even, Triplet, Golden Ratio and Silver Ratio, continuously variable for the entire travel of the SPACING knob.

Independent Stereo Panning for Each Head. Set the pan of each head individually for spacious multi-head stereo delays.

Playable Echo Feedback. When you turn up Volante’s REPEATS knob, you get richly evolving, super-spacey sonic textures with intuitive, responsive hands-on control for sculpting the feedback.

Three Echo Machine Speeds. Volante’s SPEED switch runs any of its three magnetic echo machines at half, normal, or double speed.

Instant Infinity. While performing in Echo mode, press and hold the ON footswitch to activate Infinite Repeats.

Sound on Sound. Create dynamic loops that degrade and evolve. Change loop direction at the touch of a footswitch. Press PAUSE for a mechanical tape stop effect. Change the speed and pitch of your loop in octave increments.

Mirror Universe. In Sound on Sound mode, press the ON footswitch, and the entire loop length will play in reverse.

Mechanical Tape Stop/Start Effect. The PAUSE footswitch recreates a variable speed magnetic echo unit, with mechanical slowdown when pausing and mechanical speedup when coming out of pause.

Core of your MIDI Rig. With full MIDI control of every parameter plus 300 preset locations, Volante transmits and receives MIDI over 5-pin DIN, USB, and even the Expression jack (via 1/4″ to MIDI cable).

Control & Routing

Completely Analog Dry Path. Volante features all-analog, ultra low noise, discrete, class-A stereo JFET preamps for a truly studio-quality effect.

Insanely Powerful DSP. We’ve outfitted Volante with the powerful Analog Devices SHARC ADSP-21375 processor.

Morphing expression control. Connect an expression pedal and enjoy instantaneous, continuous control. Set as many knobs as you like for the heel and toe positions, and all settings morph throughout the full range.

Dedicated Instrument/Line Input Level Switch. Set the switch to INST when using a guitar level input, or LINE when using Volante in the effects loop of a guitar amp or with a hot output from a synth or mixer insert.

Additional Control with MultiSwitch Plus. Connect MultiSwitch Plus to Volante’s Expression Pedal jack for additional footswitchable control.

Sound Design

Multi-head magnetic media delay machine providing four playback heads with individual feedback, panning, and level controls

Processor-intense algorithms deliver meticulously nuanced recreations of vintage magnetic echo systems (drum echo, tape echo, studio reel-to-reel echo)

Dedicated control over echo machine tone and media: Low Cut, Mechanics, Wear

Input Record Level for clean reproduction to warm, fat saturation

Independent Spring Reverb

Sound on Sound looping mode with reverse, pause, splice, and infinite repeat functions

Ins, Outs, and Switches

High impedance stereo input

Stereo output

Input Level switch allows for both instrument and line level signals

On, Favorite, and Tap Tempo footswitches

Expression pedal input allows the connection of an expression pedal, external tap pedal, 1/4″ to MIDI cable, or MultiSwitch Plus.

Full featured MIDI in/out supporting MIDI CCs, program changes, and more

USB jack for controlling MIDI via computer

Audio Quality

Analog dry path for a zero latency dry signal that is never converted to digital

Premium JFET analog front end

Ultra low noise, high performance 24-bit 96kHz A/D and D/A converters provide uncompromising audio quality

Super high performance SHARC DSP

32-bit floating point processing

20Hz to 20kHz frequency response

Audio Input Impedance: 1M Ohm

Audio Output Impedance: 100 Ohm

More

True Bypass (electromechanical relay switching) or selectable transparent Analog Buffered Bypass

Strong and lightweight anodized olive green aluminum chassis

9V DC power supply included

Power requirements: maximum 9 volts DC center-negative, with a minimum of 300mA of current

Dimensions: 4.5″ deep x 7″ wide x 1.75″ tall (114.3 mm deep x 177.3 mm wide x 44.5 mm tall)

Designed and built in the USA