Minimalist/Exhibitionist?

[Mike]

I like effects that work with the sound of a guitar, rather than against it. I love tremolo, I think tremolo about a very human quality about it. Chorus and reverb definitely help out. Fuzz, octaver, wah, you can really work these things in interesting ways, too, though it gets harder and harder. For me, it ends at effects like phaser or flanger. They basically sound like you turned on an effect and no longer are particularly musical or interesting because the first few songs you ever really liked with flanger on (Dennis and Lois by Happy Mondays, Girls and Boys by Blur, for me) are probably the only songs you thought it was well used. If it actually made a guitar sound like an airplane, it'd be nice, but largely it makes it sound like you bought a flanger.

Have a listen to John McGeoch's guitar on Juju by Siouxsie and The Banshees and then tell me that flangers are not 'particularly musical'.

Or countless songs by the Police. Andy Summers knows something about a nice Flange.