Strymon Volante Magnetic Echo Machine

Strymon Volante: Sounds From The Expanse

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

Delays For Days: Three Magnetic Delay Types, Spring Reverb, Looper, and More

Designed to radically enhance the sonic expressiveness of your pedalboard, the Strymon Volante features magnetic drum echo, tape echo, and reel-to-reel studio echo. This stereo multi-head delay also offers a looper and vintage spring reverb, with powerful sound-sculpting controls for limitless sonic possibilities. Enjoy exceptional sound quality and intuitive playability that elevate your music to new heights.

Three Vintage Echo Machines: Drum Delay With Unprecedented Control

The Volante offers magnetic drum echoes known for their warmth and harmonically rich, saturated sounds. These echoes are meticulously reproduced within Volante, allowing you to dial in any sound from pristine factory settings to road-worn classics. Experience the full range of the best vintage drum echo units, with every tube stage carefully emulated to deliver authentic tones.

Classic Tape Echo Experience

With Volante, you can achieve superbly crafted multi-head tape echoes, complete with smooth tape saturation and characteristic imperfections. Mechanical alignment, head wear, and tape anomalies are all faithfully recreated, providing the richness and complexity of vintage machines with modern control and stability. Volante also allows you to mimic the irregular head spacing of classic tape echo machines, enhancing your creative possibilities.

True Studio Tape Sound

The Studio Echo of the Volante offers the cleanest sound among its three magnetic echo types, sustaining the highest number of repeats with minimal degradation. This mode delivers pristine studio delay with the full-bodied warmth and fidelity of reel-to-reel tape, making it perfect for professional-quality audio reproduction and creative engineering.

Specifications:

• Sound Design:

  • Multi-head magnetic media delay machine with four playback heads, each with individual feedback, panning, and level controls.
  • Processor-intensive algorithms recreate 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 for instrument and line level signals.
  • On, Favorite, and Tap Tempo footswitches.
  • Expression pedal input for connecting 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 zero latency dry signal.
  • 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.
  • Audio Input Impedance: 1M Ohm.
  • Audio Output Impedance: 100 Ohm.

• More:

  • True Bypass 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 inches deep x 7 inches wide x 1.75 inches tall (114.3 mm deep x 177.3 mm wide x 44.5 mm tall).
  • Designed and built in the USA.

This delay pedal ships fully insured with signature required.