State of the Flanger: 2022 (and beyond!!!)

by **Dandolin** » Sun Apr 30, 2023 12:16 pm

spot-on on both counts, backwardsvoyager

totally agree that, on a full mix, the through-zero experience is more enjoyable and somehow seems more "right"... somehow :idk:

by **chromandre** » Sun Apr 30, 2023 2:17 pm

youre all crazy TZF rules,

but I think I agree that a typical more expected flanger sweep goes great for enhancing a solo or riff

http://www.youtube.com/user/SeanBoke · by **Seance** » Sun Apr 30, 2023 4:14 pm

Pepe wrote:A few months ago I finally had a listen to some through zero flanging sounds that "everybody" talked about. I just hadn't imagined that it produced a complete gap of silence. I disliked it on the spot.

Gaps of silence are the brain compressing from overstimulation to let nothing past.
Squeeze a brain strong/long enough and there is a moment when the phosphene swirl
accompanies a complete gap of blank silence as consciousness effervesces. To recreate that
sensation safely with a pedal... this is the way of the flanger.

It's hard for me to think of flanger as "overrated" when it is generally seen as a niche sound of
relatively "limited" appeal or application.

Do you need to dust the strands of your beaded curtain by slurping them down a vacuum cleaner attachment?
Maybe not. But sometimes even small delays must be accommodated, despite the distortions.

You can try to reach the resonance The Replacements.

You can burn a house down.

You can score some drugs at a park.

by **Dandolin** » Sun Apr 30, 2023 8:31 pm

it were inevitable that someone would speak for the zeros, better it were done eloquently - well said :)*

i, however, am going to remain in my milquetoast comb filtered world :trippy:

by **echorec** » Thu Jun 01, 2023 2:13 pm

Kind of wild to see Spaceman dropping a second flanger.

This really needs a purple plate though...or even better, no plastic adornments.

https://vintageking.com/spaceman-meridi ... le-sparkle

http://www.youtube.com/user/SeanBoke · by **Seance** » Thu Jun 01, 2023 4:37 pm

echorec wrote:Kind of wild to see Spaceman dropping a second flanger.

This really needs a purple plate though...or even better, no plastic adornments.

https://vintageking.com/spaceman-meridi ... le-sparkle