Who loves flangers?

[zRobertez]

I do. I love flangers. I used to own an MXR M-117r and I loved it oh so much and used it all the time. I sold it (bad idea)and got a nice nice phaser with a ton of options hoping for a little more versatility. The phaser was fun and all but I couldn't get the textured deliciousness sounds of the flanger. I've owned a few choruses in hopes getting lighter flange type tones and I never got anything close. I've tried a few other flangers but now I have another MXR flanger. I've had it for awhile and I've been considering ANOTHER flanger set lightly for chorus type sounds (I think a flanger set chorusey sounds better than any chorus I've had). I'm thinking one of the Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress versions.

Flanger just seems so versatile. You can get those jet plane sounds that are so famous, a nice very textured chorus, filter crushing sounds, awesome vibrato, and I think flangers set with a high rate have the best rotating speaker type effect to them (just to me, I've never heard one in person or anything though), and some weird half-oscillating tones. They're just so liquidy and great and full of texture (I can't think of any other words) and can fit in with so many clean sounds. Maybe it's just the type of music I play. Who knows. I think two flangers is all the modulation you could ever ask for. Maybe a vibrato or a plain chorus too if you like it that way. I don't know. I'm just saying if you've never tried a flanger, do so. They'll change your life!

[Chankgeez]

I tried and could not get 'em to talk "flanger".

This is all they had to say:

viewtopic.php?f=149&t=21359

[sylnau]

I like flanger.
I'm using my Cosmichorus V2 for light flange (even if it's not really a flanger it's doing great).
Haven't found a flanger that I really like yet... Something like the Frost Bite in a smaller enclosure and some CV function over the sweep would be awesome.

[Chankgeez]

I've yet to meet a flanger I haven't liked. (I do like some more than others though.)

I also like to mod 'em so they're incapable of making "chorus" sounds.

[sylnau]

Is there any flanger with CV function on the market? (or manual flanger other than the Chicago Iron "PedalFlanger").

This is an old video I've done (one of the first)... on how I'm using the Cosmichorus to do light flange.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sny0Pwl4Y7s[/youtube]

[Chankgeez]

Not too bad for a "chorus", sylnau.

Pretty sure the Moog Cluster Flux must've CV.

Other than that, probably some rackmount flangers.

If you wait, I'll bet the SubDecay Starlight DLX'll have expression controlled manual flange. I think the A/DA might too.

(EDIT: Mu-Tron has some kinda treadle controlled parameter, but good luck finding or affording one of those.)

[snipelfritz]

Any time we talk about flangers, I need to post a pic of this pedal.



I will never get rid of it. NEVAH!

And yeah, flangers are s00per versatile. I tend to go for long and slow, but with little to no "jet plane" so it just gives my sound a cool, spacey depth.

Where do y'all put your flangers in your chain. Mine is at the very end so I can wrap up all my sounds into one nice swirly package.

[Rygot]

Nuff said.

[Chankgeez]

NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCE, SNOOOOOOOOOOOOOPELLFROOOOOTTTZZZ.

I WILL NEVER GET SICK OF LOOKING AT THAT PHOTO.

snooplefrütz brings up a good point. Some of those so-called off-brand pedals actually sound really good.

I usually run my flanger(s) at the end of my chain. That's usually where I place delay type effects. (Unless I'm playin' teh 'gaze and I want a diffuse sound, then I put 'em up front towards the beginning of the chain.) Right now I've been playing with two flangers, one right after the other, last in the chain.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV33Aels200[/youtube]

[sylnau]

Chan, Which flanger you are using at the moment?

Flanger = Chrome

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b18axTAFQ3w[/youtube]

[snipelfritz]

snooplefrütz brings up a good point. Some of those so-called off-brand pedals actually sound really good.

Best thing I've ever traded for a bag of weed

[Chankgeez]

snooplefrütz brings up a good point. Some of those so-called off-brand pedals actually sound really good.

Best thing I've ever traded for a bag of weed

Damn, good score.

Chan, Which flanger you are using at the moment?

Right now I've been running the TC Vortex into a Hartman.
(My main complaint about the Vortex, as much as I love it, is that it sounds just a tad too cold. So, I need something to warm it up a bit, like an analog flanger run right after it.)

[jrmy]

I LOVE me some flanger smaction.

To Chankgeez point about cheapies, one of my faves is my Arion Stereo Flanger. But I've also got a modded BF-2 (w/upgraded chips and a switchable pitch mangle mode), an Aria chorus/flange, a BYOC flange, a couple of DODs (the regular stereo & the bass stereo flange) and one or two others that I'm forgetting.

Oh, and a Flanger Hoax .

So many wunnerful, wunnerful toanz to be had.

[zRobertez]

I usually put my modulation before my muff (a pharaoh) and what other dirt I might be running, usually just a muff plus amp gain. Right now, my only modulation is a Malekko vibrato and a flanger. I put the vibrato pre-gain cause it muddies it up quite a bit. Then flanger after the muff. It seems to increase ye ole flange effect post-gain. Although I've never messed with my effects loop but my amp isn't ever set that dirty in the first place.

[bigchiefbc]

Fuck yeah flanger! I love it, and overuse the shit out of it. I really do try to throw it into every goddamn riff I write. My current stable is a DOD FX72, a Stereo Electric Mistress and a Flanger Hoax