Strymon Volante Demo [Part 2] - Looper Mode
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024
- This is a demo of the Looper (Sound on Sound) Mode of the Strymon Volante.
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This is one of the most musical demos I’ve seen of any pedal in a long time. The way you played the pedal brought it back alive as a new composition.
So glad you like it!
What a great pedal to create ambient sounds with a guitar, love it
Glad you like it!
Finally a Sound on Sound demo! Thx!
You're welcome!
Appreciate your Demos, very detailed and PRACTICAL! Great to see the many variations that can be set in real time! Keep up the great work
Glad the demos are helpful for you!
Your video really helps me understand the Volante better. Thank you!
Such a fantastic video... I have the Volante, and figuring it out. This helps a ton
Glad it is helpful for you!
Man, that's awesome... it's between this and the Polymoon for me, but the Volante is definitely getting me GASing
Did you end up going with the Polymoon or Volante?
Drooling 🤤. Beautiful demo my friend...
So glad you like it!
Sounds friken awesome, great demo thanks. I can’t wait until mine arrives
Glad you liked the demo! You will enjoy this thing.
When does your Volante arrive?
This song was amazing! This was way more than a demo, beautiful!
Thanks man!
4:38...and someone is legit about to get murdered. That is the sound of nightmares. So, so good.
Glad you like it man!
Just ordered one. Great demo!
Lauren Leon thanks! You will love it.
Great demo… And a lovely loop! The question no one ever answers: how do you get out of the loop mode in back to the “normal “echo function of the pedal?
The only way I can do it is to unplug the unit and start again
Any suggestions? Thanks!
Hold tap for a few seconds.
Wow. Very cool Strymon. Nice loops. You got subbed.
Much appreciated!
Nice demo Nathan...thanks.... I just received mine today....
Thanks! What do you think of the Volante so far?
@@Pedalnerds Frankly, I'm not a big fan. As background: I use the Source Audio Nemesis (and Ventris) and I love the Neuro desktop app, which I use extensively. My board is plugged into my pc and when I record, I'm dialing in the sounds from the Neuro. My go-to engines on the Nemesis are the Tape and Tape Noise.
OK, so first, the Volante, as is always the case with Strymon, sounds great. No worries there. All three engines are beautiful. And the controls are fine, good even, (but still no desktop app interface for deeper editing and saving pre-sets). But as far as the sounds from the Volante, I believe I can get all those sounds, or close, from the Nemesis Tape and Tape Noise engines. With the Neuro app, I can dial in a variety of sound parameters to match (exceed) those of the Volante: (3 modulation parameters, tape speed, lo-cut/hi-cut, diffusion, distortion, tremolo, 3 wow/flutter knobs, sweep filters, pan). I did an A/B test comparing the Nemesis and the Volante, and, well, to my ears, they are a little different, but I can get almost all the sounds on the Nemesis. And the Nemesis has sounds the Volante doesn't. I would call it a draw.
What I really wanted in the Volante was an improvement of the SOS over the El Capistan. And yes, it is an improvement. 64 seconds now instead of just 20. And you can adjust the delay while looping. And that's a lot of improvement. But frankly, most (except the degradation) of what the Volante offers in SOS I can do with my looper running through the Nemesis. And I've watched almost all the demos of the SOS on TH-cam, and most of what everyone is showing is, too me, not musical. Reversing, and stepping down to half speed, and adding a whole lot of decay, and switching the delay engines while looping is all a wonderful technical achievement, but it doesn't inspire me in the kind of music I'm using it for (ambient guitar soundscapes).
Sorry to be negative here, and I'm a big fan of the Strymon sound, but this pedal just doesn't knock me out. If I didn't have the Nemesis (and use it all the time), I'd love the Volante. If I want 4 or 5 delays on my board, the Volante would be one of them. I'm going to keep working with it, but for now, I'm probably going to send it back.
Awesome demo. Just have to rediscover my Volante. 😃
Thanks! Have fun.
very good video as always Nathan
thanks for sharing
Pablo ambient guitar & meditacion thanks man!
Love your demo, thanks! 🙏
So glad you like it!
Great demo dude, thanks!
Glad you like it!
Great video! Love the song! You are so talented!
Thanks ;)
cool... seems like possibilities with loop degradation are nearly endless here... can't wait when it arrives to me)
I would like to see what you can come up with using this pedal!
@@Pedalnerds me too, Nathan... me too)))
@@MikhailMedvedev When does your Volante arrive?
@@Pedalnerds I hope till the end of March! It should be the first part of Volantes brought here by local Russian distributor. So I'm gonna be one of the first Volante owners here)
Love your videos man!
Much appreciated Richard.
Thats a movie soundtrack right there.
Much appreciated.
Incredible.
I must have this.
Did you get one?
Degrading loops are just like the weeks in a year. Or the years in a decade. Or the................... well you get the jist of it 😉. Sounds really neat though!
thx for these infos 🍻
No problem!
So helpful, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Cool demo as always Nathan!! Perfect as a looper too, I've been waiting for this for a long time !! If I'm not mistaken, the speed selector can be controlled by an external footswitch right?
Yes, you can control speed with an external footswitch if you like!
How do you use it as a simple looper? I don’t want my solo recorded to the looper I set
Put it into infinite mode (holding down left footswitch) and you can play over the loop without adding to it.
If you have another delay pedal going into the volante will that get included into the looper?
Yep! Any audio running into the input will get recorded to the looper.
Awesome.
Thanks! I'm probably having the most fun with the SOS mode at the moment. As an ambient looper, this thing is a heck of a tool.
@@Pedalnerds SO cool.
Really cool demo, beautiful loop and great sound! May I ask whats the signal chain in here?
Gretsch Power Jet > Emerson Custom Pomeroy OD > Volante > Stereo into the Vox AC15 and Princeton Reverb and then mic’d and running into a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 into a PC
Glad you liked the loop!
Nathan do you think its a dealbreaker that the Volante sums into mono for loops? I saw that recently and it shocked me. Why tfq? I know creating true stereo pedals is more expensive than summing the input for the effect line production BUT a pedal that markets itself as stereo cannot suddenly sum to mono in loop mode that is borderline customer missleading
I guess it just depends on your use case. As far as I know, the dry signal is kept true stereo, and the wet signal is summed to mono and then processed into a stereo signal. Since the looper is essentially a wet signal playing back it is summed to mono. If you need a looper that keeps the signals completely separate/stereo all the way through, then this may not be worth it. If you don't need that this would be worth it.
@@Pedalnerds Yep, here this is the one case where the otherwise unimportant flaw of stereo summing falls into part.... As far as I am aware, the Timeline doesn’t donit at least I never noticed it and my ears are pretty sensitive for stereo - with the volante I immediately noticed something being off
I just don’t get it they go so indepth on the SOS but don’t find away around it to get it stereo... Why strymon why
Hi! I love your clean sound. Which amp do you use?
Princeton Reverb and an AC15 in stereo!
So this is pretty much an Echorec, Space Echo, and a Red Panda Tensor in one pedal.
In some ways, yes.
Really nice! But how do you erase a loop if you've made a mistake? Also, do I understand well that the controls are active on the recorded loop only if you're in infinite mode?
Old comment but for anyone curious of the answers: you can only erase the entire loop, not individual layers, and that is done by pressing the right footswitch. The effects are only active when the loop is *not* in infinite mode, which locks the loop and prevents it from degrading.
Can I use it as just a looper (if I wanted)?
I'm wondering the same
How to make the SOS sound louder? Mine's has low volume
I think I saw a demo and it might stand in the manuals - press 1 and 4 and turn echo level, something like that i believe
Ah dont forget that the sound degrades so over time u loose level
I have a stupid question. Can this be used as a normal looper? I can't find anywhere that suggests how long the loop time is. Thanks.
Up to 64 seconds at the slowest speed. You can use it like a regular looper but the loops will degrade to a degree unless you set them in very specific ways.
Thanks man, appreciate you answering.
How do you erase recorded loops?
Jason Melani After a loop has been recorded, press [TAP] again to erase it.