Gang of 4 - Flangers

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Bogner

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I figured this might be a good way to turn folks onto some new pedals by listing your favorites that you own/use. List them up.

Your 4 heavy hitter FLANGER pedals.


1. Thorpy - Camoflange
2. Dreadbox - Komorebi
3. A/DA - Flanger
4. Strymon - Decco
 
I have a few I use the BF-2 the most live even though I like the Moog the best.
  1. Moog Moogerfooger MF-108M Clusterflux
  2. BOSS BF-2 Black Label (MIJ)
  3. DigiTech EX7 - ADA clone with variable-sweep
  4. MXR Micro Flange - had one loved it I might rebuy one
  5. MXR M-117 Flanger - Got rid of it the volume drop when engaged drove me crazy.
 
I've had so little use for flanging that my purple BOSS flanger has sat in the box since I got it and I only use my old ADA S1000 rack unit if I really need to make that sound.
 
I don’t own any but have owned a MXR (old one with the cord built in), a Boss BF-2b (sounds great with guitar), and a BF-2.
 
beaubrummels said:
I've had so little use for flanging that my purple BOSS flanger has sat in the box since I got it and I only use my old ADA S1000 rack unit if I really need to make that sound.
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No flanger love? I like flangers as long as they are not used in an over the top manner.
 
I really love a very subtle (just about audible) flanging effect added to a nice mellow overdriven tone - even more so for a Marshall style driven tone.

I read there is flanger on Free - All Right Now, though I don't hear it myself. In any case the combination works really well.

A different example where you can tell there is definitely some subtle flanger in play is Rory Gallagher - Follow Me.

I haven't tried enough pedals to even put 5 together though...same with the other categories, will leave that to those with more experience.
 
Another cool pedal worth mentioning that I had forgotten about is the DigiTech Nautila (Chorus/Flanger) pedal. Very cool for what it is/does.
 
I currently own three flanger pedals. For home playing, I would rank them in this order: (1) MXR EVH flanger; (2) Electro Harmonix Deluxe Electric Mistress XO; (3) Boss BF-3. For gigging, I would move the Boss from (3) to (2) and put the EHX pedal last because of volume and bass drop.
 
Bogner said:
No flanger love? I like flangers as long as they are not used in an over the top manner.
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Other guys are able to get great use out of them, but I've only been able to use them once or twice in the studio as a special effect (more than that in the music I've been doing and it sounds like too much, more of a crutch than effect), and live, because of the dramatic apparent/effective EQ shift they cause as an artifact, they just make the guitar surge in and out of the mix, instead of just being a cool effect but not causing tone suck or levels out of control. I just find them hard to work with. There are other similar options I prefer over flange like slow, shallow chorus, or phaser, or Leslie for rotating/phasing/swriling effects.
 
BOSS BF-2 (Japan)

Not for the flanging, but for the very interesting guitar-friendly midrange it imparts when set a certain way.
 
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