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Just sold my Flanger Hoax because I really didn't use it much, but now I need a flanger I was looking at the MXR flangers. Anyone else have any other ideas?

Airplane Flanger!

I have an opinion on almost every flanger out there. I really need more info, because there is so much variation within the area of flangers. Do you want a subtle chorus-ey flanger, a jet-place whooshing flanger, or a really resonant ball-bearings-down-a-pipe flanger?

If I might chime in...

I was thinking about a flanger too, particularly about the HBE frostbite. The price tag is a little scary though. What's your opinion on the frostbite?

Or what is you suggestion for a ball-bearing type flanger? (What about Church Bells down a well?)

phantasmagorovich wrote:If I might chime in...

I was thinking about a flanger too, particularly about the HBE frostbite. The price tag is a little scary though. What's your opinion on the frostbite?

Or what is you suggestion for a ball-bearing type flanger? (What about Church Bells down a well?)

The Frostbite is a very faithful remake of the A/DA Flanger, with the addition of a volume knob (which is nice because it allows you to boost it a bit). The A/DA is a very unique sounding flanger. It can get very extreme and chimey, but I find that it doesn't really do subtle well. I'd say the Frostbite is great if you're really after alien sounds, but if you just want to do "Barracuda" or something like that, there are much better ways to get there.

The EHX Stereo Electric Mistress, with the flanger depth cranked, does the best grinding, squealing metal sounds I've ever heard. And if you turn the speed down below noon, it freezes the flanger and you get awesome resonant bell noises.

Great, Thanks!

I'll give the Mistress a spin at a local store then. I'd love to do that with the Frostbite but that's the problem with nicer & rarer pedals. They're rare.

I have a vista fire (vestax) I will be putting in the b/s/t later today.
Its pretty versatile and sounds good.
I got it in a lot of older pedals... and I don't use flanger or I would keep it.

bigchiefbc wrote:I have an opinion on almost every flanger out there. I really need more info, because there is so much variation within the area of flangers. Do you want a subtle chorus-ey flanger, a jet-place whooshing flanger, or a really resonant ball-bearings-down-a-pipe flanger?

Probably the more wooshy type. I have couple pedals that do chorus and 90% of the flanger hoax was ball-bearings-down-a-coily-pipe

Caesar wrote:

bigchiefbc wrote:I have an opinion on almost every flanger out there. I really need more info, because there is so much variation within the area of flangers. Do you want a subtle chorus-ey flanger, a jet-place whooshing flanger, or a really resonant ball-bearings-down-a-pipe flanger?

Probably the more wooshy type. I have couple pedals that do chorus and 90% of the flanger hoax was ball-bearings-down-a-coily-pipe

OK, for whooshing jet-plane stuff here are my recommendations:

Toadworks Barracuda - a clone of the custom-built flanger Heart used on Barracuda. They actually brought in Howard Leese to help them build it.

DOD FX75B (for guitar)/ FX72 (for bass) - a suprisingly good flanger for the money, my FX72 blew away the BF2 that was the industry-standard answer for this one.

Strymon Orbit - haven't played this one myself yet, but sounds great in the demos and is getting rave reviews. Also has thru-zero flanging for the full jet-plane effect, which effectively makes the Foxrox TZF officially not worth it.

Honestly, I was never a fan of the MXR flangers. They always sounded more chorus-ey to me than jet-plane

I'm no flanger expert, but I have one of these and like it pretty good. Does auto-sweep and manual sweep and blends of the 2. Also has internal trimpots to dial in self-oscillation at the peaks of the sweeps if you want them. Built like a tank too. Definitely does more of the whooshy than the clangy.

I must say that I love love love my Boss Bf-2.

It can do subtle and it can do crazy, albeit not as crazy as some. They can be had on the cheap pretty easily and are well worth the check out.

Howz about a Morley Sapphire Flanger if you can come across one, they're pretty nice if a tad rare.

I have an airplane flanger and it is amazing. It does everything from subtle to oscillating. Really interesting sound when put in front of a fuzz too. The frost bite is probably one of the best flangers out there imo but I just absolutely love the gni phaser flanger. There's some spanish company who does this mod to the boss flanger that makes the delay time go a lot longer and sounds really cool. Ill edit this post later with the company name, I'm just typing this from my phone right now

bigchiefbc wrote:Strymon Orbit - haven't played this one myself yet, but sounds great in the demos and is getting rave reviews. Also has thru-zero flanging for the full jet-plane effect, which effectively makes the Foxrox TZF officially not worth it.

imo the envelope feature on the foxrox alone makes it worth it!
wish more flangers could do that

- but I'm looking forward to Caesar's Flanger Hoax! I plan to use it as an effect out from my recording DAW so I can send it all sorts of different sounds and twiddle the knobs in real time. It probably won't get used much for a typical flanger sound!