artyman wrote:Yes there is the "Blue Nebula"
An excellent bit of kit for not a lot of money, with terrific support from the makers StanleyFX
Cliff
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artyman wrote:Yes there is the "Blue Nebula"
Garystrat wrote:Hi Richard,
Dave Robinson has posted settings on the first page of this thread, this should be enough to get you going!
There is follow up information too in these threads. I suggest read the through them, below is a link to YT manual:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFEvBP-hrYE
It's a really well built unit with an impressive specification, the Binson style head arrangement/drum settings should produce more than acceptable patterns for the Hank Echo. There is unique secondary control over the head spacing, which I feel helps in providing more detailed echoes for Shadows fans, to quote Strymon:
“Variable Head Spacing - On some vintage multi-head tape echo machines, the heads were not evenly spaced, which created interesting sonic interactions when multiple heads were set to repeat. Volante gives you a SPACING control that is adjustable between Even, Triplet, Golden Ratio (for dense, non-overlapping echoes) and Silver Ratio (for non-overlapping repeats biased toward the quarter note). The spacing between the heads is continuously variable for the entire travel of the SPACING knob, morphing between the available settings.”
I freely admit that I’ve become far more pragmatic in favour of the character and tonal qualities rather than trying to achieve every nuance of the recorded sound, which was certainly influenced by Abbey Road Studio. To me the Volante sounds really good in an authentic way that is normally more associated with those early tube echoes, there is a basic analogue feel, saturation (it has an initial analogue path), slight grit with the right controls to replicate the “constructive” quirks and flaws of the original vintage units, without the hassle factor.
The Volante can store 8 on-board presets by over writing the factory ones which are pre assigned to the head/feedback buttons using the favourites foot switch. In a gigging environment this may not be quite so convenient as say a rack unit, but for studio and home use it should be fine.
Whilst I haven’t explored it, Strymon state that a total of 300 presets can be stored via MIDI and it’s been suggested elsewhere that they are soon to release editing software, which could make it much easier of create and change patches if connected to a computer.
http://www.strymon.net/faq/saving-and-r ... n-volante/
The Volante is also firmware updatable via USB, anyone who has one of the earlier units may wish to check this out (as one would expect the new unit supplied to me had the latest update).
Regards
Gary
dave robinson wrote:Having never bothered with Mountains Of The Moon I don't know what the echo patch should be, but at the time it was recorded, Hank used his Roland 501.
This means that he only had 3 heads on which to base his echo sound so it won't be anything complicated. The Volante offer four heads, much the same as a Binson Echorec, but with the bonus of being able to alter the speed and spacing patterns to get close to the Meazzi machines as well.
When I get a minute I'll have a look at the TVS3 and see what heads are being used and equate the settings to the Volante if possible.
dave robinson wrote:When EFTP and other companies like Korelec who made the Atlantis and TVS sent their new machines out, their was always an accompanying leaflet with all the Shadows titles and corresponding patch numbers, then I think it was the 'eTap' people that published all the text regarding echo head spacing times and levels. I have my own little black book with much of this information, but my research was done from listening to the real machines and comparing the numbers which can vary from machine to machine, though the sounds are still within the 'ball park' by a good distance.Having listened carefully and compared them myself, in my opinion Paul Rossiter has the definitive most accurate readings and they are readily available for perusal on the TVS website under 'Hank's Echoes' and you have to scroll right down the list to see them - here.
https://www.tvsspecialtyproducts.com/ha ... units.html
Time to do your research.
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