Strymon Volante Magnetic Echo Machine Pedal

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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.

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 Sound on Sound mode and a vintage spring reverb algorithm. Volante’s powerful sound-sculpting controls provide limitless sonic possibilities.

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. 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.

• 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 (mono) with reverse, pause, splice, and infinite repeat functions

Magnetic drum echoes are famous for their warmth and for their harmonically rich and saturated sounds. This is due in large part to the many tube stages present in the most sought-after units. There were tubes in the input buffer, the signal mixer, the record and playback amplifiers, the tone shaping circuit, and the output mixing circuit.

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.

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. 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.

• Digital delay pedal that re-creates the full gamut of analog-style echoes
• 3 magnetic delay types: magnetic drum echo, tape echo, and reel-to-reel studio echo
• 4 playback heads with individual control over level, feedback, and panning
• 3 echo machine speeds exhibit an interesting range of effects
• Magnetic record head saturation yields warm, luscious delay signals
• Looper with reverse, tape stop, and speed change effects
• Variable head spacing creates interesting sonic interactions
• Produce sonic cacophony with self-oscillating feedback loops
• Dedicated spring reverb adds dimension to your playing
• Tap tempo footswitch lets you set tempo on the fly
• Provides instant access to 8 presets with up to 300 available via MIDI
• Expression pedal input for instantaneous, continuous control
• Instrument/line-level capabilities make it equally at home on your pedalboard or in the studio
• Selectable true bypass/analog buffered bypass switching

SKU: Z12A-VOLA

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