Totally. That intro was great. I almost stopped watching the video after the intro. What else was needed? I wad sold on the volante! Rhett great point on focusing on one's preferred sounds. In a time and age of do it all pedals its great to find one which does one thing great and without a clutter of switches and settings.
This is probably the best straight out review of the Volante. Well done, Rhett. I've been using Strymon for years as well but have always found the Timeline to be overkill for what I need. I have the Deco on my board currently but have been on the fence between getting the Volante or something like the T-Rex Replicator Jr.(prices have gotten very reasonable lately). I'm pretty sure that this video has pushed me to buy a Volante now. Damn, RUclips is expensive.
Such a great and useful take on this pedal. Honestly I found it to be more informative, committed and to the point than most of the other reviews out there. Thanks. -Seal.
I have the Volante and the Catlinbread Belle Epoch Deluxe. Volante iis definitely more versatile. The buttons for the four playback/feedback heads combined with the spacing knob on the Volante can give you endless variations on delay patterns, and the wear, low cut and record level knobs allow you to shape the tone of the repeats in myriad ways. The three different settings all add a different character, my favorite is the drum (echorec) setting, it's the most gritty and lo fi. So Volante is great. But I still can't bring myself to take the Belle Epoch Deluxe off my board, the EP preamp sound in it is just too good, and with it's other delay type settings and an expression pedal you can do some pretty awesome stuff. I know you can use an expression pedal with the Volante too, but the Catlinbread is just vibey-er and a little more unpredictable (like sweeping the resonant filter delay setting, which is always just on the edge of going into runaway self-oscillation). So for now, they're both still on my board, which is kind of a lot of space for two delay pedals, but I like them both too much.
2:00 Rhett, I am one of your frist subscribers (I think I was here when you were at about 2000 subs) and very very often you happen to remind me why I subscribed. Being very honest and transparent about the origin of the material you review should be the norm, but in reality A LOT of youtubers are very fishy and sneaky about it, even trying to mask paid reviews as a 100% indipendent opinion. Thanks a lot for your videos and your honesty!
agreed. more and more youtubers don't say a word about that even when they are fully paid to make a review. I don't even think that is legal. I've already seen a bunch of youtuber review this very Volante and not mentioning at all its origin. let's support transparent and honest guys like rhett
A $400 free pedal is still a payment. Not that is matters but perspective can get lost by many who's complete pedal board is about that value. It is nice that RUclipsr's are now required to release information about compensation however, and i am not singling out anyone for any reason. It is just a pedal that i would never consider due to cost, no matter how good it is. I can still dream and watch the high end reviews and know who bought the item and who was gifted it.
Yes budget should factor but... Who the fuck buys a pedal just because it's expensive? The two pedals I bought that were between 300-400 CAD were both because they did a sound I couldn't get with any other pedal... Strymom deco, steel string supreme... Yes you could say they are just expensive pedals but cost wasn't the driving factor of my purchase, I don't mention the cost when I mention what they do at jam sessions... Buy the gear that gets you the sounds you want. If a cheap set up can do it for you, great! But bashing something for the sake of cost is stupid. There's a lot of expensive components, design, and building required to make these pedals, it's not like it's a 30$ unit upcharged...
I LOVE mine! I took it out of the box, plugged it in without changing a thing, and got lost for almost half an hour. The simplicity of it inspires me more than my Timeline.
Just got a volante today. Love the simplicity. Doing like you said. Putting the timeline away for awhile on my board ( not getting rid of it though!) and running the volante as my main delay. Love the tape sound! Thanks Rhett, love the effort you put into your reviews
@@markdavidofficial4274 You can't convince everyone but this is the best demo I've heard out there and this is my dream delay (other than a real tape echo)
This demo sold me on the Volante. I have a TimeLine but much like Rhett all I used regularly is the tape setting. I have only had the Volante for a day and it’s already inspiring me to find new sounds and play more. Keeping the TimeLine for now too but the Volante is gonna be my default for the foreseeable future.
Great review. I liked the instrumental at the beginning, but the part I most valued was hearing you discuss the pedal at a down to earth level I could understand. Thank you Rhett.
You are such a good player man. Shames me cause I have been playing since about '68. Love your sweepy open chord stylings, hoping to pick up some chops from watching your videos. Some people are just more creative I guess. Love your stuff. And thanks for the Volante recommendation, I just bought one, looking forward to using it. Already have 4 different Strymons and love them all. And its all cause of you and your videos. Just love that huge, open sound!
@@freeecountryy I doubt he has to return it.. Strymon is out how much money for giving this pedal away? $100ish, maybe? And this video already has 65,000+ views.... As far as marketing goes, that's one hell of a deal for Strymon. And Strymon already knew this guy liked the Timeline and BigSky, and given that the Volante is a really nice product, it was an easy call to assume that he'd say mostly good things about it. So Strymon is out maybe $100ish and in return they have a video mostly praising their product, with tens of thousand of views.... Again, one hell of a deal for Strymon. All they have to do is sell a couple of pedals and their investment is made up for, and then anything past that is just icing on the cake and free marketing.
Yes, getting something "for free" is the same as getting paid, and even if you think you are trying to be unbiased, you will want to give it a better review because you want to get more free stuff in the future. The bias may be entirely subconscious, but it is definitely there. It takes a bit of experience knowing how to interpret a review from someone getting free things, but if it is a good review, they will show you all aspects of something leaving it up to you to make up your own mind, and it will point out whatever might be shortcomings according to the reviewer.
100% agree. I had a Timeline and got rid of it. Replaced it with the Volante. There's nothing about the Timeline that I miss. I Volante absolutely beats out the Timeline because of the multiple delay heads and the ability to change the timing between them. For ambient playing which I do alot of, this allows the Volante to replace a cascade of 2-3 delay pedals. I'm using a Kemper as well. In performance mode, the Kemper can call up Volante presets. Perfect!
For tape echo sound, I really like my Keely Magnetic Echo. It does one thing really well. Only down side is I have to manually dial in dotted eighth note delay.
I'm still learning the ropes to get an ideal setting that works with my playing, still on my board though after 3 years, plus I have my Strymon DIG after it. Thanks for the insightful video! 😎
Thinking of selling my memory man and going down the volante road... I've got the big sky by strymon and I've got to say the sound and build quality is top of the class.
Just picked one up today. I’ve got the DD-500 and the tape sounds on there are good especially after the update. But tonight I’ve found myself getting some really really really cool (but still musical) tones by playing with the spacing knob. Combine that with spot on tone, and I call that $400 well spent. I might find myself missing my analog sounds though. We’ll see. I’ve been able to tweak the wear knob to trim the highs and get in the ball park
I'm so torn about swapping my Timeline out for the Volante! Like you, I'm on the Tape setting 95% of the time, but the screen does make it handy to see when I change presets on my ES-8, what delay I've switched to.
@@GuitarsAndSynths I ended up getting a Volante, and kept the Timeline too 😅 I love them both for different things, but I think the Volante has an edge in sound over the Timeline.
Late to this video but have to say I’m interested in the Volante because, like you, I live mainly on tape type delays. And I love your to-the-point, straight ahead reviews 👍
Sounds like an awesome addition to a rig... You're videos are awesome, the stuff you review shows that you spend quite a bit of time mastering the functions of the gear before you make a video. I appreciate that
Strymon does make killer shit, Ive got a Big Sky and love it... that being said, the new Audio Source Collider can play a tape echo and Binson oil can delay at the same time... and the AS spring reverb sound quality is unsurpassed... all in a smaller pkg with the option of using a phone app or puter to fine edit if one so wishes... these are cool times we live in..
I ordered the Volante and Timeline, letting the dealer know I’d be returning one of the two. Spent a good amount of time on both.Timeline is serious but I’m a BIG fan of El Cap and have always wished it had more presets along with MIDI capabilities. So it’s no surprise that I kept the Volante. I just wanted to be sure, though. I’m with you, Rhett: Cool as the effects are on the Timeline; I just knew I wouldn’t be using most of them. Love the Volante. Cool video. Thanks!
9:45 I'm in the exact same boat. I just got a timeline and bigsky a week or so ago, and granted I haven't made a conscious effort to dive deep into every preset and start crazily tweaking. I find myself just sticking to the dtape setting on the timeline because tape delay is my absolute favourite. I won't sell the timeline as some of the settings are really damn cool, but granted having more control and more focus on the tape settings would be good, so I'm definitely gonna pick a volante up. Sigh, I just bought a pedaltrain novo 24 and it looks like I'm going out shopping for a bigger board already. Awesome sounds at the start dude, if I had a kemper I'd be considering picking that pack up.
I recently invested in the Empress Echosystem and Reverb and before that I was using a Blue Sky and a DIG from Strymon. I'm thinking about selling the DIG to fund the Volante. The hands-on approach of it is really appealing and it'll be a great option for my smaller board when I do fly gigs and ship contracts.
it is all mostly the same with different features yes but its all delay hahaha just another place in life that's smells of brand wars, its just delay done by different companies, americans are particularly obsessed with brands and having new shit to take ur mind off boredom, get to work ya fuckers stop shopping n thinking about shopping and make music))
TheLeon1032 it’s more feature set no? I think the reason someone would buy the Volante so they could have the features of a drum echo and tape delay. Can you make them sound similarly? Sure but you can’t replicate their rhythmic differences and idiosyncratic feature set. That’s why I believe someone would get one or ought to above all
It's just repeats and EQ, mate. Analog dry-through can make a small difference. Any good delay with an effects loop will get you most tones, EQ in the loop, mod pedals, another delay, etc (EHX Deluxe Memory Boy/Man are good). Want multi-head? You can stack a couple delays (or use the FX loop as I mentioned) and, if they have tap-in, use a global tap. I got one from Loopi FX for $30 - it has polarity reversal on one output, so it's perfect for my MXR EP-103.
Had mine for a couple years. I would agree that without MIDI, your gonna be bent over the Volante tweaking knobs. Same thing with Nightsky, but with MIDI control over presets I can program some rather normal reverbs and delays in them and with a footswitch, morph them into preordained cosmic debris and safely back again. I run them in stereo, in parallel, to a mixer back to stereo before hitting the Peavey Classic 50/50, pretty sure my rackmount tube amp was made for keyboards. It sounds breathtakingly good on flute and guitar. Headroom. Yea, I run flute through my guitar rig, mostly just the ambience stuff. I use FET based amp style pedals on guitar to get a nice amp sound from this rig, the Catalinbread circuits are awesome for my clean flat huge tube amp tone, they work perfect for me. Totally different ambient programs for flute and guitar stuff, it's essential to simply hit a footswitch and make it so. Go MIDI. Morningstar Engineering stuff is really nice to work with.
I agree with the Bella Epoch Deluxe but this also does the binson thing... and it has built-in Reverb but the Belle epoch how's that preamp she kind of stuck mine both then you're going to need to get a bigger pedalboard just whatever you do don't watch that pedal show I person could go broke
@@hoover728 lunch sounds good but honestly I have no interest in tap Tempo I've got three or four other to lay is it do that I think it sounds great the Belle Epoch and the snooze driving pedal boat sound amazing and they're different from one another anyhow you can never have too many delay pedals but that's good info thanks for sharing
Shoot man, All are great but I would either get Volonte or Timeline and save a few bucks. I know the Volonte would get more use from me than all the crazy features of the Timeline. If you got the money might as well get both tho.
@@shawnlaizure Ha ha. I understand that. I'm from the midwest too and have 3 delay pedals on my board at the moment.🤣 I preordered one of these from sweetwater when they get their next shipement. Lol
Yea- that intro was great! Rhett, thanks for the review. Like you, I really hover on analog on tape. I come from years of a RE-301 chorus echo and now that its busticated, having a hard time finding the right "modern" replacement. The Volante is tops on my list right now - and your demo/review really puts my thoughts right - it's just a little outa my price range these days....
I watched a video with Rick Beato.. he asked you (who I've never seen before) your favorite delay. You said this one. So I searched it. Clicked the first video - And hey look - it's you again!
as a drummie, doing jamaican stuff, i need a delay that can double in a flick or half, or triplet. volante and do it as well as DIG. dig doesn't sound as good. i'd have to run it thru a tube screamer or the walrus 385...
Well I can't afford it, but I bought it anyway. I use a Specular Tempus also, but this just fills that "niche". It's a beautiful sounding pedal and more versatile than you might think. Thanks Rhett!
There’s something magical about the multi head delay sound. This pedal seems like a great pedal and right up my alley? I almost picked up the Catalinbread Echorec as my main delay. However, I went with an Echoplex pedal with tap tempo. With the tap, I can switch between slap and longer delay times, on the fly. I’m not a huge delay user and I generally have it mixed into the background. More felt than heard. This pedal would be overkill at my level and style of playing/recording. If my current setup wasn’t working or if I were a serious working musician, I would definitely be interested. $400 makes this a really expensive toy, and I have a Jones for a better amp that has be be scratched before a new delay comes onto my radar. Really cool sounding pedal, though.
I vote MORE VIDEOS reviewing pedals. This video is highly apropos for me, and you nicely distilled your likes and dislikes and gave us an excellent perspective of what the pedal is. Your review is highly relevant to me since I've been toying with the idea of getting one of these VOLANTEs, and now I have a much better idea of what the pedal would mean to me as an average dude who tools about on his guitar. I totally dug this review man! Thanks Rhett.
i didn’t but much stock in them as being a HYPE type effect for most Strymon...because of the underutilization factor. BUT the Volante does seem like all the best features of a few great delays rolled into on unit. still probably more expensive than i would like but stills THIS pedal seems worth the hype
To me as I love the Dunlop Echo Plex. It to me is not reverb with delay for the Volante. It's how authentic the basic tape Echo is. After that it's the controls to tweak to get the other sounds from the original sound, not 2 effects to burn an original.
Sounds really great, but it seems a little bit late to the party. How many great drum and tape type echo's are there in the market already? I just don't see this thing making everyone trade the box that they've been using in for one. But then again, guitarists aren't always known as the most rational of people. Just my thoughts. YMMV.
great insight. i have a couple of friends who could benefit from getting rid of their reverb pedal and just using the volante. that's definitely the unsung feature imo, incredibly useful
Great video! Really enjoyed your editing in the intro. Totally agree with your thoughts on the timeline. I pretty much always end up using the tape as well. Keep up the great content🎸
I sold a Catalinbread Echorec and Catalinbread BE-Deluxe to get the Strymon Volante, and it was a tough choice given how much I love Catalinbread's amazing pedal designs. Volante doesn't disappoint, and the ability to get tape and magnetic echo effects from the same pedal was a huge draw for me. Strymon seems to really nail the modeling of all these classic delay machines, and give you reasonably intuitive control over them. I'm a huge fan.
Edwin Alvarez it’s really impressive. I’m going off to college this summer, and I as originally gonna bring my ac15 head+ox box, but honestly I think it takes too much room. Think I’m gonna have to start saving for a kemper.
as soon as you mentioned the Binson, i was also checking out T-Rex Effects’ website, and was greeted by their announcement that they’ve brought back the Binson Echorec… weird 😅
Man this demo was excellent! I have had this pedal since 2019 and I gotta say, it’s the best delay pedal I have ever heard. Top video, keep up the great work!
My sensible side is telling me to go for the timeline in terms versatility and features but I really like the volante.... definitely cant afford both that's one thing I'm sure about these things are pricey!
nice balanced take, Rhett -- will keep in mind if I find myself heading into tape delay territory (the local guitar shop/Strymon dealer is literally across the street from where I live here in SB!)
Loved the intro! Your instrumental pieces are always superb. I think the Volante is an outstanding pedal, but being that I don't use delay a great deal, I'll likely opt to keep using a delay that's cheaper and takes up less real estate on my board.
I like the Volante. I just like Strymon... Their stuff is amazing and it all sounds great! Practicality be damned. I don't need a drum delay but it's cool to have it. Not about the "needing" all about the "wanting"!
I have this pedal and it sounds great, however its usabilty without the addition of a separate midi device is not good, there is no way to select presets when using it live
Rhett that intro is killer! Volante sounds good. Have you ever played a Digitech Timebender? I think your intro inspired me to write something with the Timebender!
what a great sound and great demo. I'm thrilled to have found this channel. Great content. I'm curious if you remember what speaker was used in your Lightning profile? I'm really digging the sound, and considering buying an actual Lightning combo. I'm assuming the Alnico Gold was in or the Morgan profile?
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Rhett just stop it now.. and record an instrumental album, that intro is great!!
armando arciniega +100!!
Amen! Rhett is a beast!
I was just about to comment the same thing!
sakamuras s maybe maybe not who cares. Would be nice if he does produce it anyhow as a single.
Totally. That intro was great. I almost stopped watching the video after the intro. What else was needed? I wad sold on the volante!
Rhett great point on focusing on one's preferred sounds. In a time and age of do it all pedals its great to find one which does one thing great and without a clutter of switches and settings.
This is probably the best straight out review of the Volante. Well done, Rhett.
I've been using Strymon for years as well but have always found the Timeline to be overkill for what I need. I have the Deco on my board currently but have been on the fence between getting the Volante or something like the T-Rex Replicator Jr.(prices have gotten very reasonable lately). I'm pretty sure that this video has pushed me to buy a Volante now. Damn, RUclips is expensive.
Such a great and useful take on this pedal. Honestly I found it to be more informative, committed and to the point than most of the other reviews out there. Thanks.
-Seal.
That tone on “Run Like Hell” sounded like the studio recording
Studio: MXR Digital rack delays
Live: MXR in some photos, a DD-2 & DD-3 in others. Depends on the era/tour
Except gilmour was using digital delays by then
That intro was nothing short of spectacular! It deserves thumbs ups of its own!
I have the Volante and the Catlinbread Belle Epoch Deluxe. Volante iis definitely more versatile. The buttons for the four playback/feedback heads combined with the spacing knob on the Volante can give you endless variations on delay patterns, and the wear, low cut and record level knobs allow you to shape the tone of the repeats in myriad ways. The three different settings all add a different character, my favorite is the drum (echorec) setting, it's the most gritty and lo fi. So Volante is great. But I still can't bring myself to take the Belle Epoch Deluxe off my board, the EP preamp sound in it is just too good, and with it's other delay type settings and an expression pedal you can do some pretty awesome stuff. I know you can use an expression pedal with the Volante too, but the Catlinbread is just vibey-er and a little more unpredictable (like sweeping the resonant filter delay setting, which is always just on the edge of going into runaway self-oscillation). So for now, they're both still on my board, which is kind of a lot of space for two delay pedals, but I like them both too much.
2:00 Rhett, I am one of your frist subscribers (I think I was here when you were at about 2000 subs) and very very often you happen to remind me why I subscribed. Being very honest and transparent about the origin of the material you review should be the norm, but in reality A LOT of youtubers are very fishy and sneaky about it, even trying to mask paid reviews as a 100% indipendent opinion. Thanks a lot for your videos and your honesty!
agreed. more and more youtubers don't say a word about that even when they are fully paid to make a review. I don't even think that is legal. I've already seen a bunch of youtuber review this very Volante and not mentioning at all its origin. let's support transparent and honest guys like rhett
Thanks for the support David!
The Volante was sent by Strymon you said. Do you mean you keep it for free?
That opening track was very cool - nicely done sir...
A $400 free pedal is still a payment. Not that is matters but perspective can get lost by many who's complete pedal board is about that value. It is nice that RUclipsr's are now required to release information about compensation however, and i am not singling out anyone for any reason. It is just a pedal that i would never consider due to cost, no matter how good it is. I can still dream and watch the high end reviews and know who bought the item and who was gifted it.
It's around $750-795 in Australia. Fk that.
It's only $100 more than the El Capistan and way more feature-packed.
Yes budget should factor but... Who the fuck buys a pedal just because it's expensive? The two pedals I bought that were between 300-400 CAD were both because they did a sound I couldn't get with any other pedal...
Strymom deco, steel string supreme...
Yes you could say they are just expensive pedals but cost wasn't the driving factor of my purchase, I don't mention the cost when I mention what they do at jam sessions...
Buy the gear that gets you the sounds you want. If a cheap set up can do it for you, great! But bashing something for the sake of cost is stupid. There's a lot of expensive components, design, and building required to make these pedals, it's not like it's a 30$ unit upcharged...
I LOVE mine! I took it out of the box, plugged it in without changing a thing, and got lost for almost half an hour. The simplicity of it inspires me more than my Timeline.
Man, your playing shots and B roll are so killer!!
Just got a volante today. Love the simplicity. Doing like you said. Putting the timeline away for awhile on my board ( not getting rid of it though!) and running the volante as my main delay. Love the tape sound! Thanks Rhett, love the effort you put into your reviews
2 years ago, I watched this. As impressed as I was, I had other delays and didn't see buying another. Ffw, mine is on its way!!!
This is the best video yet, Dr. Shull.
"they're not sponsoring in any way other then providing me it for free" lol that's a $400 sponsoring! But great sounds nonetheless :)
The time spent making a video like this is worth more than the 400.00 pedal, so Strymon got the better deal.
@@ChadWork1 He is also paid by you tube for the number of views
@@constantine412 Payment for 80k views is pretty much zero dollars.
Chad Johnson uhhhhhhhhh...I would heavily disagree. This may be an awesome pedal but it still would never Persuade me to get one
@@markdavidofficial4274 You can't convince everyone but this is the best demo I've heard out there and this is my dream delay (other than a real tape echo)
I'm definitely going to pick one up. Loved the demo from Andertons Music.
This demo sold me on the Volante. I have a TimeLine but much like Rhett all I used regularly is the tape setting. I have only had the Volante for a day and it’s already inspiring me to find new sounds and play more. Keeping the TimeLine for now too but the Volante is gonna be my default for the foreseeable future.
7:13 YES yes yes. Sing it, Brother. THIS!
Good review Rhett, I like how you actually tell people your honest opinion including the Cons for you and not just all about the Pro’s.
Great review. I liked the instrumental at the beginning, but the part I most valued was hearing you discuss the pedal at a down to earth level I could understand. Thank you Rhett.
You are such a good player man. Shames me cause I have been playing since about '68. Love your sweepy open chord stylings, hoping to pick up some chops from watching your videos. Some people are just more creative I guess. Love your stuff. And thanks for the Volante recommendation, I just bought one, looking forward to using it. Already have 4 different Strymons and love them all. And its all cause of you and your videos. Just love that huge, open sound!
Nice presentation, good info, but...... when you say you are not getting paid, well getting a $400 pedal is getting paid, in my opinion...
Randy H 100% correct!
Yep, I'd do a kiss ass review for any free pedal, especially a $400 one.
I didn't think he was given the pedal to keep, only sent one to demo it. No?
@@freeecountryy I doubt he has to return it.. Strymon is out how much money for giving this pedal away? $100ish, maybe? And this video already has 65,000+ views.... As far as marketing goes, that's one hell of a deal for Strymon. And Strymon already knew this guy liked the Timeline and BigSky, and given that the Volante is a really nice product, it was an easy call to assume that he'd say mostly good things about it. So Strymon is out maybe $100ish and in return they have a video mostly praising their product, with tens of thousand of views.... Again, one hell of a deal for Strymon. All they have to do is sell a couple of pedals and their investment is made up for, and then anything past that is just icing on the cake and free marketing.
Yes, getting something "for free" is the same as getting paid, and even if you think you are trying to be unbiased, you will want to give it a better review because you want to get more free stuff in the future. The bias may be entirely subconscious, but it is definitely there.
It takes a bit of experience knowing how to interpret a review from someone getting free things, but if it is a good review, they will show you all aspects of something leaving it up to you to make up your own mind, and it will point out whatever might be shortcomings according to the reviewer.
100% agree. I had a Timeline and got rid of it. Replaced it with the Volante. There's nothing about the Timeline that I miss. I Volante absolutely beats out the Timeline because of the multiple delay heads and the ability to change the timing between them. For ambient playing which I do alot of, this allows the Volante to replace a cascade of 2-3 delay pedals. I'm using a Kemper as well. In performance mode, the Kemper can call up Volante presets. Perfect!
have owned a Timeline, el Capitan, H9/ Timefactor and TC Electronic triple delay, and yes I can clearly say it's the best delay barr none.
Been my favorite and most versatile pedal I’ve ever had so far... great review Rhett!
For tape echo sound, I really like my Keely Magnetic Echo. It does one thing really well. Only down side is I have to manually dial in dotted eighth note delay.
I'm not a huge delay guy but that one, that pedal is just awsome
Love the honesty of your gear demos Rhett!
That Pink Floyd part was very convincing! That sounded so good!
I'm still learning the ropes to get an ideal setting that works with my playing, still on my board though after 3 years, plus I have my Strymon DIG after it. Thanks for the insightful video! 😎
I bought one last week came in the mail yesterday loving it. Thanks man for this video helped me out a lot
After seeing you clip, I think I am going to buy this pedal. You answered all my questions. Thanks !
Thinking of selling my memory man and going down the volante road... I've got the big sky by strymon and I've got to say the sound and build quality is top of the class.
Great review and sounds, this just cost me 1 x Volante plus shipping :P
I'm going to buy one for sure. Great video Rhett!
Thanks Shawn!
Just picked one up today. I’ve got the DD-500 and the tape sounds on there are good especially after the update. But tonight I’ve found myself getting some really really really cool (but still musical) tones by playing with the spacing knob. Combine that with spot on tone, and I call that $400 well spent. I might find myself missing my analog sounds though. We’ll see. I’ve been able to tweak the wear knob to trim the highs and get in the ball park
Great review! Great pedal! Thanks Rhett.
I'm so torn about swapping my Timeline out for the Volante! Like you, I'm on the Tape setting 95% of the time, but the screen does make it handy to see when I change presets on my ES-8, what delay I've switched to.
I like Timeline better
@@GuitarsAndSynths I ended up getting a Volante, and kept the Timeline too 😅 I love them both for different things, but I think the Volante has an edge in sound over the Timeline.
Use the ears !
@@Wooburnmusic that’s why I recently sold the Timeline! The Volante just always sounded better 🕺🏼
Thankyou Jake 😁👍 yeh
Late to this video but have to say I’m interested in the Volante because, like you, I live mainly on tape type delays. And I love your to-the-point, straight ahead reviews 👍
Like you, I SORELY under utilized my timeline. Volante + Nightsky + Vox AC30HW = ❤️
The Empress Echosystem never gets any love and is probably the most diverse delay out there
Ivan Ibarra that’s my favorite delay. So good. Diverse for sure.
Big +1 for the echosystem. The things it can do with pitch are incredible
I use them both!! Incredible pedals!!
It’s diverse but it’s also pretty vanilla sounding in most modes
Sounds like an awesome addition to a rig... You're videos are awesome, the stuff you review shows that you spend quite a bit of time mastering the functions of the gear before you make a video. I appreciate that
Strymon does make killer shit, Ive got a Big Sky and love it... that being said, the new Audio Source Collider can play a tape echo and Binson oil can delay at the same time... and the AS spring reverb sound quality is unsurpassed... all in a smaller pkg with the option of using a phone app or puter to fine edit if one so wishes... these are cool times we live in..
Why do the drums on the intro sound so much like Darren King? Phenomenal.
Because they’re from the Darren King pack on that sound.
Now that is how you do an informative and honest review of a piece of gear. Thanks Rhett!
I ordered the Volante and Timeline, letting the dealer know I’d be returning one of the two. Spent a good amount of time on both.Timeline is serious but I’m a BIG fan of El Cap and have always wished it had more presets along with MIDI capabilities. So it’s no surprise that I kept the Volante. I just wanted to be sure, though. I’m with you, Rhett: Cool as the effects are on the Timeline; I just knew I wouldn’t be using most of them. Love the Volante. Cool video. Thanks!
Does the Volante sound better than the El cap? I'm looking for a good delay & tape delay pedal.
9:45 I'm in the exact same boat.
I just got a timeline and bigsky a week or so ago, and granted I haven't made a conscious effort to dive deep into every preset and start crazily tweaking. I find myself just sticking to the dtape setting on the timeline because tape delay is my absolute favourite. I won't sell the timeline as some of the settings are really damn cool, but granted having more control and more focus on the tape settings would be good, so I'm definitely gonna pick a volante up.
Sigh, I just bought a pedaltrain novo 24 and it looks like I'm going out shopping for a bigger board already.
Awesome sounds at the start dude, if I had a kemper I'd be considering picking that pack up.
Got it. Love it. I don't think it will ever leave my board.
I recently invested in the Empress Echosystem and Reverb and before that I was using a Blue Sky and a DIG from Strymon. I'm thinking about selling the DIG to fund the Volante. The hands-on approach of it is really appealing and it'll be a great option for my smaller board when I do fly gigs and ship contracts.
Thanks for your thoughts Rhett.
I’m gonna be honest, I have a terrible ear for distinguishing differences in delays. Outside of the speed and length, it all sounds the same to me.
it is all mostly the same with different features yes but its all delay hahaha just another place in life that's smells of brand wars, its just delay done by different companies, americans are particularly obsessed with brands and having new shit to take ur mind off boredom, get to work ya fuckers stop shopping n thinking about shopping and make music))
TheLeon1032 it’s more feature set no? I think the reason someone would buy the Volante so they could have the features of a drum echo and tape delay. Can you make them sound similarly? Sure but you can’t replicate their rhythmic differences and idiosyncratic feature set. That’s why I believe someone would get one or ought to above all
It's just repeats and EQ, mate. Analog dry-through can make a small difference.
Any good delay with an effects loop will get you most tones, EQ in the loop, mod pedals, another delay, etc (EHX Deluxe Memory Boy/Man are good). Want multi-head? You can stack a couple delays (or use the FX loop as I mentioned) and, if they have tap-in, use a global tap. I got one from Loopi FX for $30 - it has polarity reversal on one output, so it's perfect for my MXR EP-103.
@@justingarcia7722 "ought"??? Gimme a break, man. What's next - "Thou Shalt Buy All Strymon Above All"??
Matt Gilbert you alright dude? You do know we're all on the same page right? Hope everything's alight
Had mine for a couple years. I would agree that without MIDI, your gonna be bent over the Volante tweaking knobs. Same thing with Nightsky, but with MIDI control over presets I can program some rather normal reverbs and delays in them and with a footswitch, morph them into preordained cosmic debris and safely back again. I run them in stereo, in parallel, to a mixer back to stereo before hitting the Peavey Classic 50/50, pretty sure my rackmount tube amp was made for keyboards. It sounds breathtakingly good on flute and guitar. Headroom. Yea, I run flute through my guitar rig, mostly just the ambience stuff. I use FET based amp style pedals on guitar to get a nice amp sound from this rig, the Catalinbread circuits are awesome for my clean flat huge tube amp tone, they work perfect for me. Totally different ambient programs for flute and guitar stuff, it's essential to simply hit a footswitch and make it so. Go MIDI. Morningstar Engineering stuff is really nice to work with.
In my opinion, the Catalinbread Belle Epoche Deluxe is the best tape delay out there.
If they put a Tap Tempo on that thing . . . Its OVER for Everyone. I Agree with you and I have tried many.
I agree with the Bella Epoch Deluxe but this also does the binson thing... and it has built-in Reverb but the Belle epoch how's that preamp she kind of stuck mine both then you're going to need to get a bigger pedalboard just whatever you do don't watch that pedal show I person could go broke
Disaster Area Microclock enables tap tempo for the Deluxe.
@@hoover728 lunch sounds good but honestly I have no interest in tap Tempo I've got three or four other to lay is it do that I think it sounds great the Belle Epoch and the snooze driving pedal boat sound amazing and they're different from one another anyhow you can never have too many delay pedals but that's good info thanks for sharing
I was responding to Michael Caz in particular.
Awesome. Thank you.
I'm getting one along with the Big Sky, Timeline, and Mobius...it's going to be an expensive day. *sigh*
Don’t forget the new Free the Tone Future factory coming out in March. I pre-ordered one.
Shoot man, All are great but I would either get Volonte or Timeline and save a few bucks. I know the Volonte would get more use from me than all the crazy features of the Timeline. If you got the money might as well get both tho.
J Steen I’m from the Midwest, love options and layers.
@@shawnlaizure Ha ha. I understand that. I'm from the midwest too and have 3 delay pedals on my board at the moment.🤣 I preordered one of these from sweetwater when they get their next shipement. Lol
@@Jaysteenn See, you get it,, my dude.
that opening track is KILLER!!!
Yea- that intro was great! Rhett, thanks for the review. Like you, I really hover on analog on tape. I come from years of a RE-301 chorus echo and now that its busticated, having a hard time finding the right "modern" replacement. The Volante is tops on my list right now - and your demo/review really puts my thoughts right - it's just a little outa my price range these days....
I watched a video with Rick Beato.. he asked you (who I've never seen before) your favorite delay. You said this one. So I searched it. Clicked the first video - And hey look - it's you again!
as a drummie, doing jamaican stuff, i need a delay that can double in a flick or half, or triplet. volante and do it as well as DIG. dig doesn't sound as good. i'd have to run it thru a tube screamer or the walrus 385...
Well I can't afford it, but I bought it anyway. I use a Specular Tempus also, but this just fills that "niche". It's a beautiful sounding pedal and more versatile than you might think.
Thanks Rhett!
There’s something magical about the multi head delay sound. This pedal seems like a great pedal and right up my alley? I almost picked up the Catalinbread Echorec as my main delay. However, I went with an Echoplex pedal with tap tempo. With the tap, I can switch between slap and longer delay times, on the fly.
I’m not a huge delay user and I generally have it mixed into the background. More felt than heard. This pedal would be overkill at my level and style of playing/recording. If my current setup wasn’t working or if I were a serious working musician, I would definitely be interested. $400 makes this a really expensive toy, and I have a Jones for a better amp that has be be scratched before a new delay comes onto my radar. Really cool sounding pedal, though.
I LOVE that EP-103
I vote MORE VIDEOS reviewing pedals. This video is highly apropos for me, and you nicely distilled your likes and dislikes and gave us an excellent perspective of what the pedal is. Your review is highly relevant to me since I've been toying with the idea of getting one of these VOLANTEs, and now I have a much better idea of what the pedal would mean to me as an average dude who tools about on his guitar. I totally dug this review man! Thanks Rhett.
Just the review i needed. Thanks man. You are a pro!
i didn’t but much stock in them as being a HYPE type effect for most Strymon...because of the underutilization factor. BUT the Volante does seem like all the best features of a few great delays rolled into on unit. still probably more expensive than i would like but stills THIS pedal seems worth the hype
To me as I love the Dunlop Echo Plex. It to me is not reverb with delay for the Volante. It's how authentic the basic tape Echo is. After that it's the controls to tweak to get the other sounds from the original sound, not 2 effects to burn an original.
As always a well thought out, practical, and honest opinion. Good review.
Sounds really great, but it seems a little bit late to the party. How many great drum and tape type echo's are there in the market already? I just don't see this thing making everyone trade the box that they've been using in for one.
But then again, guitarists aren't always known as the most rational of people.
Just my thoughts. YMMV.
I'm rational. I don't need one.
great insight. i have a couple of friends who could benefit from getting rid of their reverb pedal and just using the volante. that's definitely the unsung feature imo, incredibly useful
Great video! Really enjoyed your editing in the intro. Totally agree with your thoughts on the timeline. I pretty much always end up using the tape as well. Keep up the great content🎸
Yes... more videos on these types of pedals. Thanks!!!
Best demo I’ve seen of this pedal thanks
I sold a Catalinbread Echorec and Catalinbread BE-Deluxe to get the Strymon Volante, and it was a tough choice given how much I love Catalinbread's amazing pedal designs. Volante doesn't disappoint, and the ability to get tape and magnetic echo effects from the same pedal was a huge draw for me. Strymon seems to really nail the modeling of all these classic delay machines, and give you reasonably intuitive control over them. I'm a huge fan.
the volante is a different beast by allowing the tape heads to pan, or trigger versatility with the feedback ...also its green 😜
Thanks for analyze 🙏🏻
killer intro Rhett, hell yes!
Definitely more like these man! Great video and great songs!
Thanks Rhett!! You just helped me deciding on buying the timeline. I was curious about the volante, though but couldn't use tape delay alone...
Great vibe you create !
Sounds killer Rhett. I really dig the golden & silver ratio functions on the Volante. Also- best intro to date!
Holy shit that was a kemper??? I think you just changed my mind on amp modelers.
Hassan Kamal I used to own a kemper. It’s the only one that sounds that real man. Beautiful thing
Edwin Alvarez it’s really impressive. I’m going off to college this summer, and I as originally gonna bring my ac15 head+ox box, but honestly I think it takes too much room. Think I’m gonna have to start saving for a kemper.
no it sound plastic thin and out of the mix
Your tones are fantastic, definitely makes me want to buy a Kemper.
love the intro jams on your videos man, well done!
I saw Kenny Vaughn demo the Volante- got one and never looked back. Always on pedal for me
as soon as you mentioned the Binson, i was also checking out T-Rex Effects’ website, and was greeted by their announcement that they’ve brought back the Binson Echorec…
weird 😅
My Timeline took a backseat to the Volante. You can play the Volante live.
That was an incredible demo. Cheers to you man. New competition for Pete thorn now. The only 2 pedalers I watch.
That Pedal Show is pretty great too if you like getting really deep in long form video.
Man this demo was excellent! I have had this pedal since 2019 and I gotta say, it’s the best delay pedal I have ever heard.
Top video, keep up the great work!
My sensible side is telling me to go for the timeline in terms versatility and features but I really like the volante.... definitely cant afford both that's one thing I'm sure about these things are pricey!
Sounds as usual fantastic!! Sick tones!!
Definitely getting one. Great demo!
Hello sir from Montreal!!
Glad to be able to tune in!!
Great Video! The best thing about this pedal is you can see what other players do with it and try it out! love mine!
Great video, what drum VI or sample library was used in the song? They sound great and a little like the Darren King pack from That Sound.
Great ear, that was from the DK pack!
nice balanced take, Rhett -- will keep in mind if I find myself heading into tape delay territory (the local guitar shop/Strymon dealer is literally across the street from where I live here in SB!)
Loved the intro! Your instrumental pieces are always superb. I think the Volante is an outstanding pedal, but being that I don't use delay a great deal, I'll likely opt to keep using a delay that's cheaper and takes up less real estate on my board.
I like the Volante. I just like Strymon... Their stuff is amazing and it all sounds great! Practicality be damned. I don't need a drum delay but it's cool to have it. Not about the "needing" all about the "wanting"!
Yeah it's all about getting from that "high" again and again, ain't it? Just add more tools to expand your sound library, so you can be more creative.
I have this pedal and it sounds great, however its usabilty without the addition of a separate midi device is not good, there is no way to select presets when using it live
Dude!!! Amazing tone... I can't believe how good that sounded through computer speakers. I agree with Armando, you need to do an album.
Rhett that intro is killer! Volante sounds good. Have you ever played a Digitech Timebender? I think your intro inspired me to write something with the Timebender!
what a great sound and great demo. I'm thrilled to have found this channel. Great content. I'm curious if you remember what speaker was used in your Lightning profile? I'm really digging the sound, and considering buying an actual Lightning combo. I'm assuming the Alnico Gold was in or the Morgan profile?
Just got mine, love it!