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Are they any decent flanger pedals around?

Or is flanger just not a very nice sounding effect?

Or is it just me?

Here's my weapon of choice:

is that a copy of a Boss one?

I have an electric mistress, and I like it a lot. Does everything you'd want a flanger to do, and takes up a lot of board space!

superfuzz wrote:I have an electric mistress, and I like it a lot. Does everything you'd want a flanger to do, and takes up a lot of board space!

I really don't know why, they could be built much smaller (I did build a clone in the 70s, in a Hammond box, but it takes DC power from an HH amp effects socket). I tend to use a Boss CH-1 chorus pedal these days.

Ro S wrote:is that a copy of a Boss one?

Aye... same pedal half the price.

My Boss chorus was free - well, about £5 for the parts to repair + my time.

The Electric Mistress does come in a smaller box now.

Boss BF2
Boss HF2
MXR Micro Flanger
MXR Flanger

All good.

i use the onerr hydrogen flanger, n i love it.

ekwatts wrote:The Electric Mistress does come in a smaller box now.

Which one, I heard bad things about this one:
http://www.ehx.com/products/stereo-electric-mistress

I built a MadBean Pedals Current Lover PCB which was strongly inspired by the original:
http://www.ehx.com/products/deluxe-electric-mistress

And it sounded delicious. But then I sold it. Not really a flange guy. LOLLLLLL

ekwatts wrote:The Electric Mistress does come in a smaller box now.

Neo Mistress

http://www.ehx.com/products/neo-mistress

My first effect pedal was a BOSS Bf-2 flanger.

It's a great flanger though I find myself never having a reason to use it. I tend to like my EHX Small Stone phaser better.

I may take the flanger off my pedal board since I am out of space.

I like the Ibanez FL9, its more subtle than most of the others.

The Mooer Elec Lady is supposedly a clone of the Electric Mistress. I got one when they MarcMart was blowing them out for $44. Sounds good, but I don't use flange that much.

Also, seconded/thirded on the Boss BF-2.

Thanks for replies.

Fran wrote:I like the Ibanez FL9, its more subtle than most of the others.

That sounds more my thing. I really dislike that 'metallic' kind of flanger sound.

Or maybe a (vintage?) Electric Mistress.

Ro S wrote:
I really dislike that 'metallic' kind of flanger sound.

in that case, check out the rocktron hypnotic flanger. not metallic at all. more a warbley, watery, chorusy texture, its always got the dry sound running too, with a control to blend the wet in. also, the max setting on the feedback control is quite tame compared to others, so you wont find its all or nothing with regard to intensity. its a really really nice pedal. cheap as piss too.

The HF2 does a great non-metallic flange sound. The BF2 does as well if you dial it in right.

Have ADA reissued their flanger? I've read good things about those. Unless they suffer from Inferior Reissue Disease, in which case ignore this reply entirely.

If you can get a Boss BF-2 for a decent price, I'd say give it a try. I really like it.