Flanger

[Blurillaz]

Yeah, B-man? Are those dudes known for their use of compression pedals? Is a compressor pedal the reason why Money For Nothing sounds so cool?

yup

[futuresailors]

Ok, back to flangers... flangers are cool! Tough pedal to think of a name for though, it's such a weird word.

the dr. scientist flangalaxy???

Teh SWOOSH BOXX.


Or Dark Flangula.
Like flanger and nebula and Dracula combined. Space vampires are awesome. And dark nebula is a type of nebula. And dark is like drac phonetically rearanged.

[Blurillaz]

BACK TA FLANGIN
I LIKE DIS ONE WHERE YOU PUT YOUR FINGER ON DA TAPE

[flashmouth]

How about the ...

Dr Scientist UFO
Unidentified Flanging Object

[futuresailors]

How about the ...

Dr Scientist UFO
Unidentified Flanging Object

i lyke tihs

[Blurillaz]

How about the ...

Dr Scientist UFO
Unidentified Flanging Object

i want flying cheeseburger graphic

[futuresailors]

How about the ...

Dr Scientist UFO
Unidentified Flanging Object

i want flying cheeseburger graphic

Meh lykes tihs tew.

teh cheezberger rockit haz de most swooshy enjin. And it can go a hundrd persent wet.....sssshhhhhhhwwwwwwooooooooooooossssssssshhhhhhhhhhh

[Gunner Recall]

UFO...brilliant. It would need to be really wacky to live up to the name though

[Scruffie]

It should have a Flanger Bounce option too, I always thought that was pretty awesome especially on a TZF... although you might be looking at a 1590DD Case to get it all in.

[futuresailors]

UFO...brilliant. It would need to be really wacky to live up to the name though

I think Ryan can handle that...Flange is like a chorus on crack. Imagine feeding a cosmichorus crack...

[Blurillaz]

How bout Ryan does what he wants?














*coming from the only guy who wants a DR S compressor*

[Ryan]

How about the ...

Dr Scientist UFO
Unidentified Flanging Object

That's great! I like the way you think!

Pete, what's the bounce feature all about? I don't really know much about flangers, tell me 'bout the bouncy please.

B-man, I don't know, I think you're gonna have to come up with some other way to play Money For Nothing... I checked a crystal ball here and there's no compressor in my future. No wah either, I don't go for that sound either.

[prs627]

So just for curiosity, what do y'all use for a flange? i'm using the new maxon but it's just not doing it for me. I could totally see how someone would love how it sounds and enjoy the tweak-ability but it's just not smooth enough for me. so the search goes on......

[Gunner Recall]

So just for curiosity, what do y'all use for a flange? i'm using the new maxon but it's just not doing it for me. I could totally see how someone would love how it sounds and enjoy the tweak-ability but it's just not smooth enough for me. so the search goes on......

I've got an ibanez af2 airplane...paul gilbert's sig flanger. Paul was a big fan of the a/da so the AF2 sounds spot on.
It's also got the wacky takeoff/oscillationsomething switch
as heard in the intro here:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x92csOySpRs[/youtube]

[Scruffie]

Scruffie, what's the bounce feature all about? I don't really know much about flangers, tell me 'bout the bouncy please.

Bounce was made popular by the Eventide Instant Flanger... you get the normal up and down sweep of a standard LFO in the flanger but that sweep is followed by echoes that go in either direction with a faster and slower clock 'bounce' emulates the "bouncing" tape speed of reel-to-reel tape machines when the friction from a touch against the reel is suddenly released.

You get 'bounce' when the summed control voltage is fed into a sub audio band pass filter, then into a non-linear amplifier with positive feedback and then filtered by a second band pass filter. A variable portion of this is mixed to the straight control voltage to control the BBD's clock frequency.

(Here's an example clip of it cause i'm not even sure I understood what I wrote about it sounding like http://www.aronnelson.com/DIYFiles/up/bounce1.mp3 )