Strymon Volante Magnetic Echo Machine Guitar Effects Pedal SN-VOLANTE $ 629 $829.00
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Strymon Volante Magnetic Echo Machine Guitar Effects Pedal

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, 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 algorithm, 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.

Three Vintage Echo Machines.

     1. Drum Delay With Unprecedented Control
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.

     2. 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.

     3. True Studio Tape Sound.
The professional reel-to-reel machines of the 50s and 60s were high-fidelity units built to accurately reproduce full-range audio signals. In the hands of creative engineers, these machines also doubled as some of the earliest studio effects, producing some of the fattest sounds imaginable.
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.

Completely Analog Dry Path.
In a typical digital effect the dry signal gets converted to digital, causing conversion noise and latency. Signals are often attenuated before combining digital dry and wet, with makeup gain amplifying the conversion noise. To avoid this, we’ve equipped Volante with a completely analog dry path, featuring all-analog, ultra low noise, discrete, class-A stereo JFET preamps. Volante is truly a studio-quality effect.

Insanely Powerful DSP.
We’ve outfitted Volante with the incredibly powerful Analog Devices SHARC ADSP-21375 processor, which provides a 266 MHz core instruction rate, and an incredible 1.596 Gigaflops of peak performance. Thanks to this high-powered technology platform within Volante, we had the freedom to craft our processor-intense echo algorithms without compromise.

This unit Requres a standard 9V center negative DC supply. 300mA minimum (Not Included)

Specifications

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
  • 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
  • This unit Requres a standard 9V center negative DC supply. 300mA minimum (Not Included)

Features

  • Individual Head Control
  • Tape Saturation
  • Spring Reverb
  • Presets
  • Head Spacing
  • Stereo Panning
  • Playable Feedback
  • Speed Switch
  • Infinite Repeats
  • Sound On Sound
  • Reverse
  • Pause
  • MIDI Control
  • Expression
  • Line Level Switch
  • MultiSwitch Plus
     

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