Recommend me a filthy flanger

[bigchiefbc]

I'm gonna just do what I always do and talk about how awesome the old DOD flangers were. I think they totally slay the Boss, and they're usually cheaper too. The FX-72/75 4 knobbers are the tits.

[moid]

I totally agree I love my FX-75B more than my Boss BF2, the Dod flanger goes more squealy and harsh and odd when you push it hard. Coupleonapkins mentioned the Liqua Flange (Line 6) - I;ve got one of those and it has a stupidly wide variety of sounds, even does through zero flanging and has three different filters on top plus positive/negative direction to the flange... it does weigh a ton though, sounds more digital (or just much more clean) than my DOD flanger and I have probelms getting the switch to turn on/off and sometimes it doesn't play game with bypassing a signal... so it might not be very reliable live (but is fun to play with at home).

For Cocteau Twins fun I've found that a Superego with a flanger in the effects loop with a really slow time/rate and a reverb pedal going into the Superego and some nice bright clean chords can get very dreamy...

[Faldoe]

Just got another MIJ BF-2 again - I had a few and sold them thinking I didn't need it or use it enough. Really sounds awesome. Gets great chorus tones to some whacked out stuff.

I sold the last one to a guy that wanted it for a "Prince" tone he claimed Price used the Boss for. He dialed in some cool setting that had an awesome effect.

[repoman]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xVGSD0RpzQ[/youtube]

BF1

[oldangelmidnight]

SubDecay Starlight MkII

This is the correct answer.

But I also have a Mooer Eleclady that's great for a simple, great-sounding flanger. And it'll self-oscillate.

[coupleonapkins]

The new/green Deluxe Electric Mistress XO's first run had a lot of duds

How so? I was looking into these and don't want to get dudded

This thread, along with a few TGP'rs crying foul for similar reasons (can't find the thread, sooprise!), and the requisite EHX usual youtube suspects not doing their thing for months & months after it was released (all of them still AWOL, save for a few clammy dudes from across the pond playing "Come As You Are") didn't send me good vibes (the feeling, not the pedal), not to mention the few flippers who sold theirs w/ an AS IS disclaimer ("Is it broken, or supposed to sound this way? I don't have time to send this back OR I sent this back & it still sounds the same - please buy it!"), adding up to QC concerns mayhaps, probably since the last flanger that was worth a damn that EHX released was the Flanger Hoax & probably a total nightmare to calibrate? Also, that thread I linked is already a year old? WTF.

I totally agree I love my FX-75B more than my Boss BF2, the Dod flanger goes more squealy and harsh and odd when you push it hard. Coupleonapkins mentioned the Liqua Flange (Line 6) - I;ve got one of those and it has a stupidly wide variety of sounds, even does through zero flanging and has three different filters on top plus positive/negative direction to the flange... it does weigh a ton though, sounds more digital (or just much more clean) than my DOD flanger and I have probelms getting the switch to turn on/off and sometimes it doesn't play game with bypassing a signal... so it might not be very reliable live (but is fun to play with at home).

I still can't believe Behringer cloned that one, which I had always assumed they assembled from lots of their other clones or something. Seems ridiculous in all the right ways!

While the price is right, I should build a board a la this guy but w/ lots of multi-era DOD flangers instead of chorus pedals.

[friendship]

The new/green Deluxe Electric Mistress XO's first run had a lot of duds

How so? I was looking into these and don't want to get dudded

This thread, along with a few TGP'rs crying foul for similar reasons (can't find the thread, sooprise!), and the requisite EHX usual youtube suspects not doing their thing for months & months after it was released (all of them still AWOL, save for a few clammy dudes from across the pond playing "Come As You Are") didn't send me good vibes (the feeling, not the pedal), not to mention the few flippers who sold theirs w/ an AS IS disclaimer ("Is it broken, or supposed to sound this way? I don't have time to send this back OR I sent this back & it still sounds the same - please buy it!"), adding up to QC concerns mayhaps, probably since the last flanger that was worth a damn that EHX released was the Flanger Hoax & probably a total nightmare to calibrate? Also, that thread I linked is already a year old? WTF.

Even though I was looking into it for mostly chorus sounds, this is disappointing. With the exception of my Memory Toy, which is dope, every time I look into an EHX pedal all I hear is AVOID.

[Tristan]

Just get Ian from Gighearts to build you a Deluxe Electric Mistress, it's smaller, sounds every bit as great if not better, and you know it's going to work.

[friendship]

Ohhh shit I forgot all about that, I think I hit him up about it a while ago but got distracted. Don't do drugs.