Strymon Volante

[@gardenolagth2020]

Your video should have a million views. Your understanding of the pedal and ability to utilize it on the fly while teaching others is quite remarkable.

[@LeonTodd]

Much appreciated :)

[@peterharvin2775]

That sound-on-sound section was exquisite. You're not doing my GAS issues any good.

[@exterC0ffx]

I had a smile all through this video, brilliant video Leon, this really gave some insight to the sheer delight of the pedal, cheers mate!

[@LeonTodd]

Glad to hear it! Love what can be done on this

[@ROKZLEON]

I walked away from my computer for a little bit and then heard this monster playing in the other room. I popped my head back in and was like damn! Leon's killing it!!! Great tone on this one man!!!

[@davidharvey8812]

I’ve just picked one of these up on fb market place for £45! All boxed . Could not believe it !! Totally incredible!

[@cwir88]

Now that is a top-notch demo! I am so thankful for dirty stuff, people always demo pedals with cleans :-)

[@LeonTodd]

get the filth out I say!

[@cwir88]

@@LeonTodd You made me buy Volante. On its way!

[@LeonTodd]

@@cwir88 buckle up, you're gonna love it!

[@cwir88]

@@LeonTodd Damn, I love it! Lead, rhythm, always-on sweetener, it truly does it all!

[@deranged-games]

aw yesss!!! This sounds cool and the demo is cranked up! a bit closer to what id actually want it for so this is perfect! thats an awesome guitar tone too!

[@ajcajc5429]

No delay demo is complete without Heaven Above, in fact its my reference riff for all things delay!. The best rock tones on YT are yours m8! well done Uncle Leon

[@Dam-oH]

Excellent video. Best of this I’ve seen. Great player and understanding of delay and all the features in this particular unit.

[@LeonTodd]

Much appreciated!

[@cpfs936]

Thanks, Leon, for the distorted examples! Way overlooked! Just got one of these and an HX Effects. I will be having a blast for the foreseeable future!

[@LeonTodd]

great combo!

[@AndrewMooreLearningLicks]

Just got this pedal today, this video has helped me out Bigtime! Thank you 🤘🏻

[@r.llynch4124]

Damn great great delay and Leon always brings the grease LOVE IT!!

[@jcshirke]

Brilliant demo. I'm a Volante owner, but you showed me tricks I hadn't yet considered. Thank you.

[@stuartgonsal8443]

It sound stunning. Great review, Leon (as always!) Thanks 🙂

[@jamieboydmusic6956]

I love the way you presented this. I love your suggestions to label secondary functions and a software editing idea.

[@LeonTodd]

Interesting to see Strymon have refreshed the DiG and more with USB-C, TRS Midi and an upcoming software editor.

[@jimmynorris]

Volante into the Nightsky can be so wild, or so sweet. The mod section on Nightsky is more powerful than most videos showcase, but I digress. Another great gear showcase, thanks for sharing!

[@MrSpike7590]

I love these units with the exception of no millisecond display. The 80's rack guy in me continues to shake his head at pedals for this reason!! Another Great Video Leon!! Yes Midi Video on this unit!!

[@LeonTodd]

Hahaha I feel you. I need to try some of the Free the Tone stuff for that reason.

[@MrSpike7590]

@@LeonTodd All of these little boxes of Joy and Frustration!! we all can spend hours nit picking the pluses and minuses of each unit but that's takes all the fun out of it.

[@kierenmoore3236]

Volante sounds very digitalz, like most Strymons … not that you can tell / not that it matters, when you’re just blasting metalz through it … 🥶

[@kevinp_25]

I have one and it’s easily my favorite delay pedal. It can go from a single slap back to crazy ambient stuff and absolutely nail everything it does. Software editor would be awesome.

[@steveyankees1]

Excellent video Leon. After listening to your review I’m blown away by the Volante. This is one of the best reviews on KZbin. I love your passion brother.

[@LeonTodd]

Much appreciated! Good gear gets the job done, great gear inspires.

[@BadMofoMusicCritic]

@@LeonTodd funny you say that. at first I was a little underwhelmed by the tone of the volante, it seemed a little thin and digital... but I found myself creating music on my guitar that the volante was driving... so I kept it. :). sometimes it ain't all about "tone" or this or that.. it's about creating. This pedal brings me that in spades.

[@massimos6863]

The Volante is an awesome delay pedal, great Demo and awesome playing Leon ❤🎸 👍

[@LeonTodd]

It really is! So many reat tones and features

[@bassfingers]

If that riff from “Heaven Above” isn’t played by aspiring guitarists in guitar shops around the world then there’s no justice. No justice, I tells ya! 🙂✌️

[@LeonTodd]

😍

[@skoorb1]

I have a Volante. Like you, it extracts some of the best guitar face possible.

[@jfredricks2394]

I had to watch twice because I zoned out on the cartoons in the background

[@justfunguitar1500]

I adore mine but still learning about it, really enjoyed your vid man - more on this pedal would be epic!

[@drbonkerssoundlabllc]

Some very Robert Fripp I Advanced Masked era tones going on in this video, Leon. It's very cool to see you exploring that. It's an impressive pedal. The labeling of controls on the Strymon and no software editor is what keeps me from my investing in one. I don't like to guess at stuff and have to do arcane button sequences a la Street Fighter.

[@dantahoua]

The Timeline is still on my board after all those years and it's even part of my tone The Volante seems so great also

[@LeonTodd]

I had a Timeline for a while and loved it but between the Fractal stuff and my H9 it didn't get much use. This slots into a fun little niche that neither the TL or H9 really hits, and it looks great on a board too!

[@csgband]

I’ve had this since it came out but never knew of the circular delay trick. Damn that’s great. Thanks for the great video. One of the best pedal delays ever. I still love my DIG as well.

[@paulb.8653]

What did I miss here

[@csgband]

@@paulb.8653 in the video Leon sets it up for circular delay

[@paulb.8653]

@@csgband I don't know what this is and where he does it :D

[@exterC0ffx]

Figured it out! 'Is this pedal for me? Damn, you bet! I've run each of Leon's presets, and I need to surgically remove the grin.

[@petemcgregor9774]

Wow I'm thinking for my rack or floor pedal, that's a awesome add either way and delays and reverbs like love. Thanks for sharing. 👍

[@jamesthompson8965]

Cool for showing some of the functions other videos haven't :) i,e, expression control... Great playing and product overview as I've seen in all your videos i've watched :)

[@jamesthompson8965]

Good comments about secondary functions and software editor :) I have been considering one of these units for a while and every video I watch convinces me more. When I can afford I will be buying :) Thanks for great content...

[@208414]

The deep pedals are always the coolest pedals.

[@murfmurphy6212]

I just got a Volante, this is going to be my guide. Your face at the end doing the SoS stuff :)

[@LeonTodd]

Congrats dude, you're in for a treat!

[@NudnikShpilkus]

There was a road by the name Volante Rd. along to the railroad track that ran into Lakehurst from Lakewood and points north. Apparently it is translated from Italian as either 'wheel' (noun) or 'flying' (verb). Nice soaring sounds, so probably leaning toward 'flying'....

[@italoop7850]

Volante is the steering wheel. It is also the gerund for "flying" but in this case it's the first meaning, with a twist. Not sure why the used the word VOLANTE here. My idea is that the drum disc recording surface is a plain VOLANO, a commonly used part in many mechanical devices, so they probably used the word out of that, adding a twist to it. Like the flying volano...

[@Emehanika]

We all MUST to start with the CLEAN))

[@jamesaplin5792]

Great review 👌

[@Tvaroh]

Thanks for reviewing - discovered something I didn't know. Anyway it's so large for pedalboard - I managed to replace it with MicroPitch+UltraTap taking almost the same space as Volante.

[@LeonTodd]

That's an awesome combo - how are you running them together, and what are you using each pedal for?

[@Tvaroh]

@@LeonTodd I just got both and still experimenting. They're at the end of the chain just before the NightSky. Firstly I thought I kinda understood them but then I tried presets and it was revealing. :D

[@mastermachetier5594]

Have it and love it. Its the only pedal that modelers have yet to replace for me.

[@poulwinther]

How does it compare to Valhalla Delay? (if you have it)

[@mastermachetier5594]

@@poulwinther different animal completely love both

[@MetallicAssault]

You were watching cadillacs and dinosaurs? Nice! I loved that show back in the 90s

[@LeonTodd]

That and Dino Riders were on repeat for me as a kid

[@achilleszaluar5825]

delay of my life, i love volante... i'm realized! great review!

[@secondamendment]

Great demo

[@CentaurusRelax314]

Well... damn. I just sold a Belle Epoch Deluxe, because, although i liked it, i didn't think i liked 'tape delay' so much that i needed it *in addition to what's already in my Kemper.* But, the way you demo'd this... now i want the Volante. Prolly isn't about the pedal, though. You just play beautifully and make things sound amazing.

[@GuiltySouls]

Great video thank you. I have this pedal and absolutely love it. I'm looking forward to comparing it with the new Boss Space Echo.

[@LeonTodd]

Good choice!

[@andrewrwhitfield]

Awesome review! I’ve got a Timeline and Volante. Love both. Wish I could nail the El-Cap sound with the Volante. But they’re both their own thing. Still... Sold my el-cap and kept the volante. Agree with all your recommendations 100%! Currently have my volante running into a Meris Mercury 7. Is quite an experience in Stereo 😋👍🏻

[@johndeschain2156]

just bought one. Nice demo.

[@kevinp_25]

Pretty sure I now know what Leon’s O face looks like.

[@eddlabel]

I've waited for this so long! Can you make a comparison with the DIG ?

[@LeonTodd]

Definitely! I want to do a pedal delay shootout very soon.

[@onesandzeros]

@@LeonTodd I would be interested to see/hear that. Do you have access an El Capistan? I often check the used prices for those, but it seems they don't drop much. When you said the AUD price for the volante, I said a bad word quite loudly.

[@stevenmgyori3826]

Well done Brother! Thanks for sharing and Be Well All!

[@LeonTodd]

You bet!

[@stephendouglas9423]

More MIDI Info would be great!

[@kevinp_25]

The release of the Boss RE-202 has me revisiting Volante videos and this is one of my favorites (the other being Strymon’s with Vanessa Wheeler). I’d love if you could do a comparison with those two delays.

[@LeonTodd]

Thankyou! I had an RE202 on loan and did some clips with it but it's going back, and I flipped the Volante to fund another gear purchase a few months ago so couldn't do a side by side. The Volante generally feels a little "deeper" when it comes to tweaking things like the head panning, modulation and the sound on sound looper while the RE202 thrives as a tactile "what you see is what you get" machine with a few extra bells and whistles.

[@dominicgibson9529]

Nothing quite so specific as the "kinda there" setting😂

[@camheiliger]

Hey Leon - thanks as always for the awesome content! Would love to see a video where you reproduce some of these sounds using the FM3 or Axe III - I actually sold my Volante in order to transition to FM3 + FC6 so having some of these sounds available on that unit would be awesome. Thanks!

[@LeonTodd]

That was actually part of my motivation to get one. Keen to see how close I can get the multitap Delay. Any particular settings/presets you want to replicate?

[@camheiliger]

@@LeonTodd Great question - the multi-tape delay should be able to handle the Studio and Tape settings from the pedal - I think the modulation is the key. Can you recreate some of the drum delay sounds or some of the more intense warble settings on the pedal using modulation and EQ settings in the FM3? I'm sure it can be done - will just take some exploration. I also think one of the keys to the pedal is how easy it is to turn on/off repeats - that is a great creative tool - is there a way to "recreate" that using controllers or other switches on the FM3? Thanks!

[@hierrogm]

Wow I wanted a great delay for my 5150 stealth well just found it awesome

[@BetonBenni]

Do you think, it can do something like a analog delay sound too? Maybe the wear knob pretty high, to simulate the degrading top end of analog delay repeats... I kind of don't want to have more than one delay pedal on my board and I'm planing to swap my simple boss waza analog delay to the Volante :)

[@adrianurrusuno2607]

Great pedal, but it will not replace a real Binson Echorec sadly. By the way, Dawner Prince is about to release an upgraded version of their Boonar pedal, this time with a tube preamp too! I think it's going to be incredible.

[@LeonTodd]

The Boonar clips I've heard have been amazing.

[@poulwinther]

Boonar sounds fantastic - but sadly they want to be so "authentic" that they stick to mono. To me personally time based effects in mono can never be even 25% of their potential.

[@kierenmoore3236]

Three years later, the Boonar Tube Deluxe has finally been released … stupid COVID …

[@meatball707]

Cliche as it is, any tips to get the delay set to a Tom Merello style delay on the Volante for tapping and using your selector switch? Something I have been trying, just way to new to delays to figure it out on this beast lol.

[@prost-av-werner]

I didn’t like Strymon to much… the colored my tone to much… But I love the Volante!! When I see this video I regret that I sold mine when I switched to the AXE FXIII MKII… Is it possible with the AXE to recreate these delays as wel? Or should I buy it again and hook up in a loop?

[@bkk586]

I bought it because of you 🤣 thank you Fc from Thailand

[@LeonTodd]

Enjoy it!

[@poulwinther]

Great video Leon! How long can you get from ping to pong?

[@ChadWork1]

When you pan the heads left/right, will they collapse to center when you pull out the right output and go to mono?

[@antioche6276]

I ain't got anything to say, so I'm simply commenting for the algorithm. Great video Leon, cheers.

[@LeonTodd]

Legend!

[@JeffHendricks]

Rock on! ;)

[@seanmiller7889]

Might be the best comment ever.

[@thomasdinoto8343]

Hi Leon ! what's base do you use with axe FX III for this lead tone without the strymon ? and if you already have record a video of this tone ? Thanks a lot 🤟🏽

[@LeonTodd]

It's the "USA Lead mid gain" based on the Boogie Mark IV. I just uploaded a vid with it funnily enough.

[@typenjw]

Sounds great man, awesome playing as always. Goddamn that Strymon stuff is expensive though…

[@LeonTodd]

It's like crack!

[@barneychamorro]

Is it a good always on delay to have running in the fx loop of a high gain amp or overkill?

[@Stoffendous]

Whats up with the cartoon playing on the ipad?

[@TheCyberMantis]

Great video. Awesome tone, as expected. Strymon is awesome, but I consider it "pro level" gear. I would love a Big Sky, but it's too expensive. I am not a pro player. I just ordered a new piece of gear. Should be here this week hopefully. A pedal. A Behringer FX600. Hehehe! $37 USD. Yeah.... should be fun to play around with. That's about my speed, when it comes to buying new gear! I already have the Boss Katana... but I thought it would be fun to have an external pedal, where I can dial-up an extra effect if I want! I think it has 6 different effects in it.

[@mattcooper1840]

hey leon, quick question re volante, does it have carry over funtion ? trails ? if so how to turn on ? Great pedal. ive lost a few days with mine i think haha

[@LeonTodd]

Not usre of the top of my head, but being Strymon I suspect it's in one of the secondary menus. Should be in the manual

[@mattcooper1840]

@@LeonTodd awesome thanks for the reply. Haven't been able to find anything on it yet.

[@LeonTodd]

@@mattcooper1840 "Spillover is set as a power-up mode by pressing and holding the TAP footswitch at power-up. When the pedal turns on in the power-up mode, press the feedback 2 button to turn it green to enable Spillover. One thing to note is that you must be on the current setting for at least 5 seconds before switching to a Favorite/MIDI preset in order to get spillover/trails."

[@mattcooper1840]

@@LeonTodd dude , you a life saver . love you haha

[@ericzeng318]

What’s the riff at 6:40 ? Sounds so good!

[@LeonTodd]

Ragdoll - Heaven Above

[@ericzeng318]

@@LeonTodd Thanks, man. I would love to listen all of your songs!

[@LeonTodd]

Get started here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpjRaoxsmbWCncU

[@Ryan-kw7gj]

Hi Leon! Is there anything the Volante does that the FM3 doesn’t?

[@LeonTodd]

I'm working on some FM3 Volante recreations atm :D

[@jcshirke]

I have to say I disagree that wear=modulation. Wear includes more than that. This isn't a Memory Man.

[@LeonTodd]

You're correct, wear is going to impact frequency response. Modulation will be caused by inconsistent motor speeds aka "mechanics"

[@empathysgone96]

Volante vs future factory? 😬😰

[@LeonTodd]

Flip a coin!

[@shaharbar]

LOL, you look like your rolled out of bed and hit records. Regardless, tone and playing on point!

[@toom6087]

No clean tone to begin. Mmmmhahaha. That's why I love this channel ! \m/ Metaaaaal !!!!! \m/

[@LeonTodd]

:p

[@JeffHendricks]

Am I the only one trying to figure out what cartoon that is?

[@LeonTodd]

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs!

[@JeffHendricks]

@@LeonTodd Sweet!

[@jimmynorris]

He always has cool toons playing in the background. Such a nice touch!

[@italoop7850]

Have been working for a while with this gizmo and I think Strymon missed big this time! Such articulated product would have benefit a lot by keeping the same interface as the other large Strymon pedals, with a real display where crucial parameters could be displayed (delay time, BPM value-MIDI Clock, etc.). The really poor MIDI implementation is totally idiotic! The need to send a program change to store a preset is moronic! And the absence of MIDI SysEx support is a crime. Now... of course it doesn't replicate any tape machine because you simply can't... BUT it has a number of very interesting features hardly available in a pedal... being a multitap delay. I am writing a library, a new one, cascading the TIMELINE>VOLANTE or VOLANTE>TIMELINE and I can assure you this combo can get some amazing effects if programmed right. In rackdomain things are much easier and better when doing this kind of things but these two pedals offer enough beef for some interesting echo experimentation. Too bad Strymon doesn't want to hear about true line level hardware implementation... but of course I'm covered by way better rack processors. So... stay tuned as TIMELINE>VOLANTE // VOLANTE>TIMELINE cascades are coming soon!

[@poulwinther]

I appreciate your post. This was my main concern holding me back, but which rack processors do you recommend to truly replicate tape including wear, mechanics, wow and everything?

[@LeonTodd]

Timelante! Voleline!

[@shckltnebay]

Is there a way to darken the repeats?

[@LeonTodd]

Yeah there's a tone control

[@kierenmoore3236]

Not like on the El Cap (Tape Age), no … Volante always sounds bright …

[@Wooburnmusic]

Aw gee sus ! And the first thing I hear is big boy distortion, must look elsewhere.