Strymon Volante - Part 1 - Stereo Demo & Tutorial!

Here I demo the Volante and go through various functionality on the pedal. It is rather long winded, so feel free to skip around to parts you care to listen to. Time stamps below.
00:05 - A few sound examples
03:05 - Dry Signal
03:18 - Working with delay heads & feedback
05:01 - Shortest & Longest delay times
05:20 - Reverb Decay
06:00 - Wear Knob
06:23 - Low Cut Knob
06:32 - Mechanics knob adjustment on all modes/speeds.
13:37 - Working with presets
14:56 - Looper functionality
18:14 - Head Spacing
20:52 - Rec Level
21:36 - Playing with oscillation
27:41 - Synth & knob twiddling
Part 1: • Strymon Volante - Part...
Part 2: • Strymon Volante - Part 2

[@DirtyMikeTM]

It was so hard of a choice for me on what Strymon delay pedal I wanted. It started with the Dig, then Timeline, then brig or brigadier, then El Cap, then Deco. Until I checked into this one in depth. It has everything I need and sounds great.

[@VJLasorsa]

Absolutely killer pedal review Great sounding tape delay Hats off to strymon Metalica \m/ \m/ sounded so good

[@richardaaron4454]

Man I didn’t realize how long this video was, good job exploring these sounds for us. Glad I subscribed.

[@dantahoua]

Love the Strymon delay!! Always sound so musical!

[@bigcountryplatinum2477]

Thank you for this awesome in depth review! This is my favorite pedal I’ve ever had so far... and I’ve got a good collection. It’s so useful and so inspiring. I didn’t know the bit about panning the heads in stereo! Thanks so much!

[@TriPedalReviews]

Glad you are enjoying the pedal! Happy to hear my video helped you, makes the effort worth it :)

[@TriPedalReviews]

00:05 - A few sound examples 03:05 - Dry Signal 03:18 - Working with delay heads & feedback 05:01 - Shortest & Longest delay times 05:20 - Reverb Decay 06:00 - Wear Knob 06:23 - Low Cut Knob 06:32 - Mechanics knob adjustment on all modes/speeds. 13:37 - Working with presets 14:56 - Looper functionality 18:14 - Head Spacing 20:52 - Rec Level 21:36 - Playing with oscillation 27:41 - Synth & knob twiddling

[@rafaelpretto292]

Excellent my friend, great video review.

[@sega62s]

Thanks for getting deeper than most reviewers 🍻, I was looking for a delay and this one seems to be on the tweakable side, always good to have options, even if the price is high, its worth it cause it has lot more than the other brands in terms of replay value 😉🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻

[@iiaaiiaannaaiiaaii]

Tri always brings it! Best taste of pedals.

[@oansun]

Jfc, every single setting sounds like magic

[@richardaaron4454]

oansun Seriously, I’m sold

[@KevinGreen-vx4ok]

Excellent demo vid

[@mazsenior]

Great job with this demo. Thanks for posting this on TGP too!

[@oansun]

Oh yeaaaa. It’s just the perfect pedal for Soma imho

[@milehighleadingedge125]

I came.

[@secretreleases]

beautiful playing

[@TriPedalReviews]

Thank you!

[@matthewgrassi4937]

KZbin must be listening, I just had this song playing from SP, then I see this Volante video on the recommended vids on the right, weird!

[@milehighleadingedge125]

Oh and what a song. This person has primo taste. I want him in my band.

[@matthewgrassi4937]

@@milehighleadingedge125 If you're in New York City area, let's rock!

[@milehighleadingedge125]

@@matthewgrassi4937 I wish! My sis is there and writes for a famous fashion magazine. I'm out west as my name suggests! But go see my friends in the band Corbu if you don't know them already. Trust.

[@milehighleadingedge125]

NO YOU DID NOT JUST START THINGS OFF WITH THE GREATEST PUMPKINS EVER. MARRY ME.

[@milehighleadingedge125]

DO STARLA AND PORCELINA NEXT PLZ

[@TriPedalReviews]

Part 2 is now up. Link in the description. It goes over examples of getting clear repeats VS wash & also playing with some distortion.

[@cloe8006]

Hi I have bought this pedal few years ago and lost all my cable, I used my guitar cable to connect with the pedal ,amp and guitar how it doesn’t work. I think I am missing something, do you know what sorts of cable do I need to make it work? Thanks.

[@kierenmoore3236]

Lots of features. But I’m not a fan of the bright digital sheen that most all Strymon pedals have (can dull it a lot on the El Cap using Tape Age, I think?). I do envy the ability to pan the Playback Heads separately (and therefore the stereo outs)… that is the one feature I want to try this pedal for … I don’t care about another digital-sounding reverb and so-so looper … improve the preamp/tone of the pedal, and maybe the ability to control Tape Age (Drum Age) like on the El Cap … Tone is everything; bells & whistles (lots of features) can’t make up for bright digital tone … 😕

[@modestimusic]

Hey Tri Pedals, I was wondering is the Mechanics & Wear knobs also function if the Time knob and the playback head is set to the shortest delay possible & no Repeats, with the Echo Level 100% wet, in order to obtain a chorus / vibrato effect ? Kind of a strange question but thats what i'm searching to know as its possible on the El Capistan with Wow & Flutter knob ! Thanks

[@TriPedalReviews]

Not strange at all, we always want to get the most out of our pedals :) You can't get strict vibrato because there is no mix control. Only an echo level, so any setting you dial in will be some amount of chorus. But yes, if you set repeats to minimum, delay head to 1, and tap in a quick tempo you can do that. I wouldn't consider it a very traditional chorus though.

[@modestimusic]

@@TriPedalReviews thank you so much for your answer!

[@zackorr421]

SOMA!!!!

[@GIBKEL]

Is it a case of never going back? I’m just about to set up a stereo type A/B/Y with a couple of loops. Would love to tap into stereo and somehow I corporate a drum machine, looper pedal to make what is in essence a sketch that I could come back to and fledge it out.

[@jat5am]

two questions pretty please. first: is it possible to make it fully wet, with no input signal on the output? second: is there any magic way to make low-cut work as high-cut?

[@leonzewe]

This might be a bit late, but the wear knob basically works like a high cut. It probably changes some other frequencies too but in practice it does almost exactly what you would expect a high cut to do.

[@jat5am]

@@leonzewe arigato. I've settled with Keeley Eccos already. true stereo looper etc.

[@richardaaron4454]

So are you running two amps for stereo? One dry and one wet or? I’m using an EVH 5150 III 50 watt head EL 34 version. I was thinking about getting the 50 watt 6L6 version used (since it’s cheaper) just to run it wet for stereo.

[@TriPedalReviews]

I have several amps, Fender/Vox that I'll run in various combinations for stereo. I've not done a wet/dry setup previous, but they also sound glorious.

[@richardaaron4454]

Tri Pedal Reviews So you’re running into the front of 2 different amps? The only other amp I have right now is a 15 watt Laney Ironheart, I don’t think it’d match up good with the EVH if I ran it through the front but I might give it a try. I could be totally wrong.

[@TriPedalReviews]

@@richardaaron4454 Yea, just directly in front. I don't have any amps with FX loops.

[@AM-sc2gy]

@TriPedalReviews Can you share some good Pink Floyd settings please? Thanks! :)

[@TriPedalReviews]

I gave some PF a whirl in part 2 at the beginning. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIWYmJSEo7mfoac

[@VJLasorsa]

Can you make a second video with some distortion fuzz not just clean

[@TriPedalReviews]

Yes. I plan on making a second video with some dirt as well as playing some more percussive passages.

[@jam4bigG]

Nice video!

[@atheuscollin3289]

Excellent demo! Question: when you switch to sound on sound mode it seems to go from stereo to mono? Does SOS only mono? Thx!

[@TriPedalReviews]

I'm pretty sure it's still stereo. I may have re-centered the heads at some point. I'll test this and reply back.

[@atheuscollin3289]

Thx!

[@atheuscollin3289]

I just bought the Strymon Volante. I plug it directly in my Mackie mixer (no other pedal or effect involved) the stereo is wide and deep, awesome! Unfortunately, in the sos mode the magic disappear: mono only when it plays back in loop. I will keep it anyway because I really love de "degradation" loop. Sadly on the Strymon page there is no information about mono when using sos mode.

[@paksureta5636]

@@atheuscollin3289 good massage for you

[@FutureOmega]

not a big fan of chorus, come on man