New Strymon Volante Midnight Edition Magnetic Echo Machine Guitar Effects Pedal

From Strymon:

Paint It Black.

Here at Strymon, we wanted to do a limited run of some of our favorite pedals we've released over the years, each finished in a sleek black and white finish as dark as the midnight sky, complete with black knobs and a blacked-out box. Despite their minimalist styling, the sounds waiting to be released from these limited edition pedals are as colorful and inspiring as ever.

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.

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.

Three Magnetic Echo Types.

Drum echo delivers warmth and harmonically rich, saturated sounds. Tape echo offers smooth tape saturation with characteristic imperfections and nonlinearities. Studio Echo (reel-to-reel) provides the cleanest sound, able to sustain the highest number of repeats with minimal degradation – a pristine studio delay with full-bodied warmth and fidelity.

Features

Each head's playback level can be set for full volume, half volume, or off, and switched in or out of the feedback circuit independently.

Magnetic Record Head Saturation via the Record Level knob and analog class-A JFET input preamp.

Dedicated vintage-style Spring Reverb.

Instant access to eight presets (300 via MIDI).

Variable Head Spacing: Even, Triplet, Golden Ratio, and Silver Ratio, continuously variable.

Independent stereo panning for each head.

Playable echo feedback and Instant Infinity (hold ON for infinite repeats).

Three echo machine speeds (half, normal, double).

Sound on Sound looping with reverse, pause (mechanical tape stop), splice, and infinite repeat.

Full MIDI control of every parameter plus 300 preset locations over 5-pin DIN, USB, and Expression jack.

Morphing expression control and dedicated Instrument/Line input level switch.

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

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

Super high performance SHARC DSP, 32-bit floating point processing

20Hz to 20kHz frequency response

More

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

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

Designed and built in the USA