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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2024
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Direct : www.strymon.net/product/volante/
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Working quick to get a head start before I lose a few weekends, so I didn't outline as much as normal, but I'm still happy with how the video turned out.
0:00 Intro
2:26 Basic Controls
8:10 Machine Types, Mechanics and Wear
12:33 Head Selectors
19:58 Spacing Control
21:48 Sound on Sound Looping
27:27 Midi CC control
31:20 El Cap Compare & Final Thoughts - เพลง
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I am a native Spanish speaker, and my mind can't resist the urge to read VOLANTE in that completely fictional but stereotypical passionate Spanish accent.
VOLÁNTE
*puts a rose on his mouth*
Worked with a guy whose last name was Violante. Can't help but see that...
I'm not a native Spanish speaker, but I do that all the time, especially when I'm alone talking to myself 😆 Some words sound so satisfying when said in a terribly stereotypical way in a fitting language. Or even better, with some foreign accent like a Frenchman speaking English. 👌
You are the best reviewer on TH-cam IMO. I can always count on your videos to get a complete feel for a pedal. I learn how it sounds and also how to use at the same time. And your sound design skills are immaculate. Good jorb!
🙏🙏High praise cheers
Great video! I sold this a few years ago, then went through 4 newer fancier delays and ended up coming back to buying a second volante. The features and simple interface really are all I need.
thank you man, i had this machine for a month now but i haven't even tried it yet, this video is the perfect introduction
Another brilliant video as always Jorb!
Cheers, thank you!
such a frickin' great demo, jorb!! you truly are the jorbiest, jorb!!
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Love to see it on a Thursday morning!✌🏻
Sneaking it out early hahaaa
Good job, Jorb! I got a volante recently and I love it. It just oozes mojo!
Great video! Been enjoying a bunch of your vids lately. Love my Volante and still learned a few new things here. Cheers! :)
Don't forget that in the SOS Looper mode you can reverse your signal at any point, by pressing the left button. You can then record something while your loop is in reverse and after you add the new loop you can reverse the new one and the old layer goes back to forward. Really cool feature as well, too bad you left it out. Just thought i'd point that out. Oh and also i think you can set it so the reverb onyl affects your repeats and not your dry signal. Also a nice feature. Great video! My favourite delay
4:45 is freaking beastie! Just nice, and crispy.
Once you got to the sound on sound part I totally got it lol. That price was hard to justify for a tape delay, but damn🤤
Jorb! Amazing review damn.
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Great stuff brother 🚀 🥷
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Great video! I have had this pedal for over a year and could never use the loop (sound on sound) function. Thanks for the tutorial.
Happy to do it. The sound-on-sound stuff has really impressed me
love u jorb
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Yeah, the Volante is a beautiful thing.
I own about 7 delays and the volante is my fav. I use it on both synths and guitar
I believe the Volante & Big Sky might be bit ''overkill''. But hell, gonna try it anyway ;). Nice intro the Volante btw 👌👍
good video!
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Oh man, that trick switching to instrument level to hear the record level effects better, I know what I'll be doing today!
where is that trick mentioned?
@@tendingtropic7778 Right after 4:00 or so...he starts discussing recording levels around 3:30
@@johnhutchinson1102 thanks!
Josh - Great job digging into this wonderful unit! I'm delighted that you shared the schematic showing the record and play heads with the signal routing. That is incredibly useful! Tape Echo has been my favorite for years and I've always wanted a Roland Space Echo, but I knew that it would be such a pain to maintain. I have several simulations, but I was really tempted to grab an RE-20 after Daniel Fischer's demo on Sweetwater several years ago. However, recently upon the release of the RE-202 I've seriously been asking myself if I should get the 202 or the Volante. As much as the RE-202 sounds glorious and harkens back to the interface (the "i" word!) of the RE-201, I really love what Strymon has done with the buttons to quickly turn the heads on and off as well as choosing from which the feedback comes.
I know you're enamored with the Empress reverb, but I'm seriously leaning toward getting the Volante and the Night Sky. They're both so hands-on and I love the modulation capability of these two. I can't help but think that they'll be magic together. I also love that as crazy bent as you can make the Night Sky sound, it can easily just sound like perfect ambient bliss without the wonky side. It's comfortable going either way.
Let me know what you're thinking! Peace, my friend!
Any software that emulates Binson as good as Volante does? Thanks
This is an amazing video. Thanks for making this. What great sounds! Are you using TRS balanced cables from Synth into Pedal or regular guitar 1/4 unbalanced cables? After the Volante are you going into a stereo amp setup, mic pres or perhaps Apollo twin Unison tech? I've had issues in the past with synths into guitar pedals so just wondering how you got such a great clear and strong tone setup wise. Thx!
Oh, we chatted on Instagram!
But to have the answer here ; this is all unbalanced cables, synth to the pedal, pedal to my tascam model 16 where I record seperate tracks straight to an SD card.
Part of it surely is strymon designing with line level signals in mind.
Had the first El Cap for years before getting an actual tape echo. My biggest gripe was that none of the secondary functions are labelled - with zero at different points on the controls, forgetting what's what, no indication of what they do or what the defaults are, and having to hold both switches down while adjusting them, I just couldn't be bothered any more. Hopefully they've rectified some of this since!
It's worse now actually, you get used to it though
It can be a pain if you dont mess with it for a while or have never learned it, but I think Strymon did about as well as they could to give us way to deal with it.
I dig my Eventide Space, surface controls ftw (have 2 H9s too)
I've been looking for a delay pedal that can have the delays play back in an adjustable stereo spread. Thank you!
great review - no BS. Thank you. You answered the questions I was wondering in my head. My problem with Strymon's sound on sound looper feature is that it degrades fast. So it's not a looper like we think of loopers for laying down a few tracks. So I don't have much use for them. (I have an el Cap). Is this the same way? You really learned this pedal well.
Cheers appreciated all that.
With sound on sound, I pushed it to degrade like that. Less aggressive eq settings and the studio tape model would stay very clean over repeats.
As well, leaving it in the 'infinite' mode stalls the degradation.
Not sure about the el cap sound on sound tbh
@@JorbLovesGear El Cap degrades pretty significantly over about 20 iterations. It can't be used as a looper, like to play lead melodies over a basic chord pattern. Anyway thanks for the explanation - the atmospheric stuff you did and changed the tape speed was nifty. Ive only done that with literal tape. Cheers.
Nice - very approachable explanations. The Strymon videos are a little dry and technical - especially the ones from the Walter White looking dude. Had this pedal for a couple years and I learned a few things
Aw yeah Strymon goated. They do this fareal!! I got the Source Audio Nemesis but this one is on my hit list
Strymon is high key one of the most consistently solid pedal manufacturers I can think of.
I need to get my hands on some source audio stuff soon, real bangers
What language is this? zoomer newspeak ?
@@devondetroit2529 IYKYK 🤷🏾♂️
I had the Nemisis and sold it to help get the Volante, not having to hook up a phone or anything on the the Volante was a nice switch, may end up getting a Nemesis again though for a 2nd delay.
@@iam607 The problem is, IDK
I'm considering offloading my UAFX Starlight for something that does multi-head delays more along RE-201 vibes. Coming up to a year since you reviewed this and the RE-202, where do you stand on them? Which do you think is the choice? Or even the El Capistan? This is for studio use with mostly synths and percussion
i waited for the drop to reply. did you see the new UAFX galaxy? I think my overall pick is the volante, because im used to it now. the control of the galaxy is compelling, the identical layout on the 202 is compelling. cant go wrong, make the decision based on how you want to work with presets / interact with midi
@@JorbLovesGear Thanks! You know, I've had a bit of a philosophical turnaround in the 5 days since then, and I ended up putting the money into a Fairfield Meet Maude. Basically I already have a Rubberneck, and I realised I felt more attached to it as an instrument than the Starlight or any plugins, because it's its own thing rather than an emulation. So yeah, about to pick up a Meet Maude to compliment it. Hopefully I've made the right choice!
I'm a little disappointed with UA tbh, I was hoping this announcement would relate to new additions to the existing lineup, since they so clearly seem built to be expanded, but it seems like they're abandoning that path. The Galaxy does seem cool though, so maybe one day.
The biggest con imho is something you mentioned quickly in passing. I get for a mono Juno it's not a problem, but for any stereo synth I'm not a big fan of this pedal. Strangely for a stereo pedal it's not a true stereo delay. So everything you feed into the effect path gets summed to mono first. I could've overlooked this, but there are superior sounding true stereo tape delay pedals on the market.
The juno is stereo, if the chorus is on.
I think it depends on how you think of it.
The dry through is stereo, the reverb is stereo, the delay can be panned per head.
Whats missing, just stereo feedback? With how complex the patterning can become already, I think it would be too much.
@@JorbLovesGear I sometimes forget that some youtubers actually reply to comments. Love your videos, I learn a lot from them. So about the Volante, I always loved to pan things hard in my mixes. Volante just messes with that in ways that my stock plugins don't. I use gear because using it gives me inspiration. And I get that Volante was first and foremost designed for guitar players. On drums and my Super 6 I just prefer a true stereo tape delay. It frustrates me (apparently not many other people) when I track out my stems and I see something I had specifically panned hard right suddenly in a delay to the left. Or a flanger that gets eaten up (by lack of a better word) by the delay.😅 I guess that's just me.
@@GTChris I sold my Volante for the same exact reason you brought up. I love the workflow and sound of the Volante and this is hands down the best video I’ve seen on it . A true gem of a pedal except for it’s odd stereo implementation. It’s really frustrating how when you have the heads panned hard left and right it sums to dual mono after passing back though so true stereo multi head panned ping pong delays are not really possible. I also noticed that what you do the infinite repeat/self oscillation thing it boosts the signal way louder than your incoming signal to the point where it totally overpowers whatever your a playing. If you could adjust those settings in a hidden menu this would be my favorite delay pedal ever made.
Which true stereo pedals would you recommend looking at?
Meris Polymoon, Erica Synths Zen Delay, Red Panda Raster V2 are three good’uns.
Something wild for me to think about is that I have both of these pieces of gear but haven't used them together
smh, gotta try it
Very nice. I wish Strymon would adapt their librarian to these new pedals or come up with a new one. I have a Night Sky, which is fantastic, but no way to back up the patches...
what a weird omission, i didnt realize that
@@JorbLovesGear I'd love to be wrong, but I reached out to Strymon when their librarian didn't work with the Night Sky and they confirmed it. They followed up by saying, "that doesn't mean we won't provide a preset librarian in the future..." but this was over a year after they released the product, and it's not likely they would bother with what's becoming an older product. I subsequently read a comment that they haven't supported preset backups with any of their newer pedals. Also, I did a quick search on the Volante after watching your video and couldn't find any evidence that you can backup presets. So it doesn't look good for the other pedals either. So sad because Strymon's products are so great. But honestly, had I known this when I got the Night Sky, I would've gone for the Big Sky, which the librarian supports...
@@JeffIrokthere are still no editor for Volente or El Cap. Dang
@@andivax 😥
If you had to take one, the RE-202 or the Volante, which would you go with? Looking to add a multitap to my Future Factory and Delay Llama
I think Volante has higher ceilings for me specifically, but if the head selection intimidates you, re202 is great too. If you just want the space echo thing, and have some more where finished sounds are sort of quicker to get to, 202.
Price is close, if I remember right
What kind of oscilloscope are you using? I wanna get one but I don't know the first thing about them, or how much I would need to spend to get a good one. Also, enjoying all the videos!
Essentially anything will work for displaying synth waveforms, but 2 channels is nice for stereo, and channel triggering is nice for keeping things on screen.
Mine is a B&K precision 1530, but I only got it because it was 30$ on ebay.
@@JorbLovesGear thank you!
Man, you just sold me on this with the sound-on-sound section. I have an RE-20 Space Echo that sounds great, but that section is like what I liked about the looping of the EHX Memory Man with Hazerai except way better, with the degradation effects. I listen to way too much Boards of Canada. Pretty sure my little Deepmind6 would like this pedal.
Pretty awesome! Ever tried an OTO BIM?
Nope! Seems cool though
big boc vibes
Are you still going to make that R201/202 comparison video with the Volante?
Probably not honestly, return on the time investment for editing a direct comparison is never really worth it.
Maybe eventually a huge delay round up, compare a bunch, but we'll see
Name of your next band 'Mechanical Anomalies. Thank you Jorb!
Fantastic video, this pedal sounds amazing. Does the Live 2 let you automate CCs to the pedal on a per step / note basis, like an Elektron would or must it be done by hand while the track is playing? Does that make sense?
MPC's let you automate over time, yes. You can draw it in, even!
@@JorbLovesGear Would you mind sharing where you go to set up the CCs? I cannot find a single piece of info on this. Setting up CC to control the MPC from a controller, plenty, but to send CCs out... none. I cannot even locate this info in the MPC Bible.
@@ryanhursh6322 if I were to sit down right now and try to do it I would use midi learn
If I’m not mistaken it doesn’t work like that because I want the MPC to control another device, not the other way around. In this case a Microkorg, so the Microkorg would need the midi learn, yeah? Because midi out of the Live is going into the MK.
I know the cc values I need, I just can’t find this screen you’re in where you’re controlling the Volante from.
@@ryanhursh6322 oh my bad, I read this backwards.
I (think) I cover using q-links to send CC in the "every way to control external gear with an mpc" video. And a few other videos, probably
I like the idea of this delay. What I really would like to find, is a delay I can synch to a clock, then have the time knob multiply and divide the clock. That way I could speed up or slow down the time, but keep in time. Does this do that?
I'm not actually sure what the time knob does with midi clock, its not made clear in the manual. I'll find out!
@@JorbLovesGear that would be awesome!
I tried to look it up on their web site but did not find it. I have been looking at time line, but I really like the looper, artifacts, and degradation you demonstrated with this.
In a way the volante does this through the head selection and speed switch, just not one knob.
I have a boss dd500 that midi syncs... if you didn't know. I love it!
Shawn, im certain there is a eurorack module that will do that for you.
juno 106 and delay pedal pt 2
LUSH
Are there any free vst plugins that sound similar to this?????
I dont use a daw really, but are any of the free valhalla plugins tape? I know they have one thats just like the space echo.
@@JorbLovesGear I'm not sure but I'll look into it. thanks for the recommendation.
@@tadknuf7979 arcDev's ET-200 is a free and an ancient (~2010) emulation of the bucket brigade Boss DM-100 delay. So off-topic, but you might like its sound (I love it).
"sub-sequent", I'm calling you out jorb
what Freudian slip did I leave in this time
Now, Empress Effects just need to send you an Echosystem to review….
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Buy and forget, not cheap but you're done with quality gear.
Are you saying this isn't quality? LMAO
@@JorbLovesGear Done looking for other stuff (GAS). Got a Strymon BlueSky and Boss RE-20 space echo myself. Once you got quality stuff you can sleep well 😀
@@michelvondenhoff9673 I have an re201, and the 202, I would chose this for way more scenarios.
They're nice too? I'm confused my guy
@@JorbLovesGear Don't be confused. I like the quality gear you have. Seen so many people buy and re-sell budget fx, guitars etc. ending up spending as much if not more than going straight for the "expensive" gear.
Expensive is no warranty for a nice sound or experience. Though cheap is almost always a dissapointment.
Lo-fi (intentional) is an exception to this. A niche imho.
@@michelvondenhoff9673 ahh I hear ya, once you've got quality gear, that's it no need to worry about it any longer. Definitely true!
That bright, digitalz, Strymon sheen … 🥶😕
You were a guitarist, bro; you know better … !!
You are late to the party:) Volante and Timeline = delays for all synth situations. Empress echo too