Strymon Volante Magnetic Echo Machine Effects Pedal

Product Information

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.

Delays For Days.

Three Magnetic Delay Types, Reverb, Sound on Sound, and More.

Delivering truly exceptional sound quality and intuitive playability, Volante is designed to radically enhance the sonic expressiveness of your pedalboard. Featuring magneticdrum echo,tape echo, andreel-to-reel studio echo, Volante is a stereo multi-head delay that also offers a Sound on Sound mode and a vintage spring reverb algorithm. Volantes powerful sound-sculpting controls provide limitless sonic possibilities.

Three Vintage Echo Machines.

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. Volante also allows you to recreate the irregular head spacing of some of the classic tape echo machines.

Individual Head Control

Tape SaturationSpring ReverbPresetsHead SpacingStereo PanningPlayable FeedbackSpeed SwitchInfinite RepeatsSound On SoundReversePauseMIDI ControlExpressionLine Level SwitchMultiSwitch Plus

Set Playback Level and Feedback for Each Head.

Each heads 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.

You can even switch heads into the feedback circuit that are not activated for playback.

All of this control allows the creation of interesting and complex rhythmic patterns as well as unique atmospheric delay textures.

Specifications

• Multi-head magnetic media delay machineproviding four playback headswith individual feedback, panning, and level controls
• Processor-intense algorithmsdeliver 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
• InputRecord Levelfor clean reproduction to warm, fat saturation
• IndependentSpring Reverb
• Sound on Soundlooping mode (mono) with reverse, pause, splice, and infinite repeat functions
• High impedancestereo input
• Stereo output
• Input Level switch allows for both instrument and line level signals
• On,Favorite, andTap Tempofootswitches
• Expression pedal inputallows the connection of an expression pedal,external tap pedal, 1/4 to MIDI cable, orMultiSwitch Plus.
• Full featuredMIDI in/outsupporting MIDI CCs, program changes, and more
• USB jack for controlling MIDI via computer
• Analog dry pathfor a zero latency dry signal that is never converted to digital
• PremiumJFETanalog front end
• Ultralow noise, high performance24-bit 96kHz A/D and D/Aconvertersprovideuncompromising audio quality
• Super high performanceSHARC DSP
• 32-bit floating point processing
• 20Hz to 20kHzfrequency response
• Audio Input Impedance: 1M Ohm
• Audio Output Impedance: 100 Ohm
• True Bypass(electromechanical relay switching) or selectable transparentAnalog Buffered Bypass
• Strong and lightweightanodized 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