![]() ![]() You can then hold down the playback buttons to set them to half-volume (button turns orange), and you can apply Stereo Left-Right panning to the playback by holding down corresponding feedback button while adjusting the Time dial. ![]() Being able to instantly impact which ’Tape’ playback heads are active, and which have feedback assigned is really just perfection. As Boss learnt with their Dimension C - people love an easily intuitive interface. There are a few features that really make this pedal essential for me, and foremost among those is the 8-button interface right in the centre. In essence what you have here is a much improved and expanded sort of Deluxe El Capistan - with a tonne of extra features in all areas. In this instance I feel they have got the balance pretty much spot on - with a couple of provisos I will make later. Those of us who really like Strymon - mostly appreciate the ’Sheen’ but would occasionally like some way to slightly override that - which is not always possible. I usually typify this as the ’Strymon Sheen’ and it’s of course quite evident here. And this is another area really which mostly pleases me - in that Strymon very significantly tune the ’Range’ of their dials - meaning it’s very difficult to make things sound even slightly discordant or ugly - pretty much all settings sound musical and refined. While other similar effects are slightly rawer with less EQ manipulation - I believe Strymon apply some really smart High Pass and Low Pass filter algorithms to ensure optimal sound quality throughout their given dial ranges. Unbeknownst to some - Strymon pedals very much have their own kind of slightly polished tone / sound signature - they have quite a distinct frequency curve I believe as they very neatly tweak the output and throughput of the affected signal to remove unnecessary harshness. For veteran Strymon owners this is really just more of the same - by which I mean another really smartly and intuitively interfaced delay pedal with some significantly clever built-in tone-sculpting. They are both great.So I at last managed to get a hold of one of these from a UK dealer - looks like Sound Affects Premier were amongst the first to receive a sizeable delivery of Volantes on this side of the pond. ![]() But I am looking forward to the new version of Boonar! Then decide if you want to sell after that. My suggestions would be to keep the Boonar at the very least so you can sit them side by side and dial the Volante as close to it as you can while you have both pedals. But getting there initially is gonna take some work. In theory you should be able to set the sound up on Volante as a preset, then you could have it available at the click of a switch. Getting rid of that I'm sure is just a matter of a bit more adjustment on the EQ. In the video I was getting a note resonating at the time, I didn't hear it while playing but I did hear it when listening back to the recording. ![]() Volante does the sound fine, but it takes more fine tuning and if you don't have a Boonar side by side with it, the chances of you dialing it in (especially if you have 0 idea how it works) are small. IMO the difference is that "swell" is instantly accessible on Boonar with 0 need to figure out how it works. If work picks up this year, I’m going to save up for one. And he commented, “it looks a lot easier to use. I played the first Strymon demos for my old dad, a drummer who used to play with three different guitarists in different bands back in the ‘50s who, believe it or not, all had original, new Echolettes - he was really impressed by the sounds, thought they were very true to the originals. I think the Volante is a beautiful design. But maybe the Volante can nail that, and do a hundred other things besides. what does all that mean when I don’t even know if these users use the Boonar’s swell the way I do? I get it bubbling away doing a kind of infinite reverb-like wash, turn it on and off with trails, play things against it. some who have tried both say the Volante can’t do the swell effect at all, others say you can sort of get it but you have to do this and that but still the Boonar is better. I haven’t found a comparison yet, have you heard one? I keep asking the question, and you know how it goes. ![]()
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