Flangers!

[jreeves47]

I love flangers, but hardly get to use them. One that I thought worked really well in a band setting is the boss hi-band flanger.
I love that John Lennon came up with the name!

[fernieite]

I've had 3 vintage flangers over the years, but only keeping one - the red Ross flanger. It's a tweaked copy on the MXR.

I just sold my original Electric Mistress, which was very cool. Maybe closer to a chorus sound. However, I just don't seem to use flangers that much.

I've also got an excellent classic 70's A/DA flanger up for sale right now on Fleabay. Shoot me an offer

How you compare A/DA to vintage Ross or Electric Mistress?

Well, I find the Ross is more of a "normal" flanger sound. Think swooshing Barracuda. It can be useful at milder settings too, like early Van Halen.

The Electric Mistress was quite useful, but more of a chorusy thing. Think Summers with the Police.

The A/DA is quite the contraption! It can get pretty extreme and out of this world.
It can do a lot of normal flanger sounds too, but capable of much more. A tweakers dream.

[jreeves47]

mutron flanger, that's a fun one too

[tigerdriver]

Gone a bit flanger crazy over the last few years, after scoring a MIJ Arion for $15 and realizing that I like flangers doing chorus more than a chorus pedal. Recently got a nice Boss Hi-Band from Japan. The ADA PBF has never quite won me over but I still hang onto it in case.

Funniest thing (probably told before) was when I bought a Reticon MXR from a guy who worked at Sam Ash, arrived with a dead chip but he told me “that’s how they sound, flangers were much more subtle back then”.

[innerflight]

Foxrox Parodox was the best flanger I ever owned

[redeyeflight]

ADA flanger is one of my favorites for vintage ones. The electric mistress always sounded a bit more chorus-y to me (not that that’s a bad thing). But honestly the best flanger, for me anyways, is the lovetone ? Flanger. It rules. Nothing else sounds like it. And it does some very unique things I haven’t found any other pedals do. Unfortunately they’re totally unaffordable. Really wish someone would come up with a reasonably priced clone of one.

[Doc Holliday]

Hasn’t Thorpy made one which would be a good alternative to the Lovetone?
He said he’s bringing back the whole line of Lovetone stuff in a new modern design collaborative with Dan coggins.
Figured the camouflange was it?!

[redeyeflight]

Hasn’t Thorpy made one which would be a good alternative to the Lovetone?
He said he’s bringing back the whole line of Lovetone stuff in a new modern design collaborative with Dan coggins.
Figured the camouflange was it?!

I watched the demos for the camoflange and while it does sound like a fine flanger indeed it is not anything close to the lovetone flanger in function or sound.

[Doc Holliday]

Ahh bummer

[redeyeflight]

Totally. I understand he developed it with Dan Coggins but I think the design philosophy on the thorpy stuff is subtly. Which is totally the anthesis of the lovetone stuff. Probably appeals to a wider audience but for the folks who want the freaky stuff it’s not really going to do the job.