I got every flanger pedal to see why no one cares about them
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Flanger has always been my least favorite effect on harp -- so much that I haven't featured one on the channel in over two years. I got my hands on every flanger I could to find what I could possibly like about flangers and how to use out-of-the-box flanging techniques in a practical context. I was really surprised, and found some of my new favorite pedals in the process.
The real flangers were the friends we made along the way
More flangers that I had to edit out of the video due to video pacing and length:
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⤑ bit.ly/3Ihf0W3
⤑ bit.ly/3IkRsQi
Some of the flangers in this video are unavailable or discontinued, but you can get these ones here:
⤑ Pyramids: bit.ly/3MC5T4U
⤑ Oblivion: bit.ly/3WaQY57
⤑ Flat Light: bit.ly/3M7aPNG
⤑ Subdecay: bit.ly/42JBibx
⤑ Komorebi: bit.ly/3MCThuq
⤑ Flanger X: bit.ly/41OhQJp
⤑ Nebulus: bit.ly/458sb5F
⤑ Aurelius: bit.ly/41LmIPs
⤑ BL-82: bit.ly/3WbV90v
⤑ BF-3: bit.ly/3MB9gZQ
⤑ Camoflange: bit.ly/3ocoivP
Drums: @lexhitreset
Beats: JustJaredBeats
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Flangers will do chorus,
and chorus has vibrato in it,
and univibe is actually a phaser,
but a phaser is not a univibe.
-Josh Scott
He’s right, you know?
And the Danelectro Billionaire rotary is a flanger.
Hey Emily Hopkins and Russ! So now your a shill for big corporate flangers AND dark olives? Next you will shill for artificial harptelligence! Ride ride ride!
I’ll never shill for artificial intelligence! Ride ride ride!
Hey Emily Hopkins and Russ! What if artificial harptelligence meant there were self assembling harps? Ride ride ride!
I have a weird relationship with flangers: I love them when other people use them but am always dissapointed when I use them.
Same with me and fuzz pedals! I enjoy hearing them, but can never get them to sound right in my rig. Lol
I've never had musician friends and all my pedal experience came from just buying and trying, so I didn't know how 'flanger' was pronounced. The way I used to pronounce it rhymed with banger, which I still prefer
We need to get you a band, friend!
I'm going to start pronouncing it like that! Let's change it! Haha
@@emilyharpist would you be able to play "Oracion" from Pokemon the rise of darkrai on a harp? i cant seem to find any vids about people playing it on a harp so would be nice to finally hear it after all these years.
That's the best way to pronounce it, hnestly. And yeah, you need a band. Just draft your friends into a band, make one learn drums.
I used to say it, "flayn-jer"
You know what they say, people who don't like flanger have never tried a good one
They've never tried one....they usually just heard it elsewhere and say they don't like it. Kinda like ring mod, which I'm predicting in the next few years, is Gunna be this huge revelation all the sudden to everybody,and it's Gunna be all the rave, and all these pedals that are sitting dusty right now, are suddenly Gunna go for huge bucks.thousands. not all ring mods for sure,as some are just very piercing and yucky, but there are plenty that do so much more than probably any other effect ever
@@NintenDub Dude especially on synths! My gonkulator modulator is amazing. I'd add octave fuzz to that as well.
@@retronartz1268 well for sure the gonk is renowned and going for a pretty decent penny right now
Actually, they've probably never tried one under the right conditions. Many folks who try a Leslie simulator pedal also shrug and mutter "Meh", but they likely didn't try it in stereo where the spatial swirl of a Leslie is allowed to shine.
@@NintenDub I have this Ring Mod/Wah pedal.... it's called the Mold Spore.
Emily the Flanger ambassador!
Technically speaking, Flangebassador.
@@neuchigen🎖
Flambassador
flangbassidore
On the flip side, Nick of Tera Melos loved his flanger. So much they wrote "No Phase" in honor of his beloved BF-2
holy heck i didn't even realize this!
@@unfathomablecheese9462 The world needs more odes to pedals
Adam Jones definitely used it well in some Tool songs as well
@@SpeedOfThought1111 But did he dedicate a song to his beloved effect?
Nick and Emily should totally do a collab video. Geeking out about pedals, jamming, it would be heaven.
🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒🫒😂😂😂😂
Flangers are so underrated and underused as an effect. You can really get into some crazy stuff if you find a good one. It’s a software one but BLEASS makes an amazing flanger that can do some insane stuff. Also that Moog jam was sick. I’d kill for a full song.
0:14 the answer is yes 😉
6:29 chances have been given, olives. You are awful.
That Dark World / Spectre Jam with the drums was GOLD!
Thanks!!
I kinda love that barber pole flange effect. They all sound amazing with your harp.
Kinda sounds like the rainbow machine a bit
Slowdive's Souvlaki still surely the peak of atmospheric flangerism. It just sounds so natural and deep. And in the sleeve it says "mixed and flanged by Ed Butler and Slowdive". I don't know of other albums that are 'flanged'..
Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method by Earth may not be "flanged", but it has tons of delicious flanger
I feel like nobody ever talks about how good you are at harp. Absolute shredder
Don't stop the Olive jokes 😂🎉😂
An old electric mistress is the classic.....
Yeah but how does it go with olives
"no one cares about flangers" *cries in goth music*
🍮 how much will it cost to get Russ to eat flan on livestream? 🍮 oh man we need a cooking stream
EPIC
Those Moog synth patches are so great! And wonderful flanging too!!! That Dreadbox demo is just beautiful. Watched this video like 10 times. Super secret pedal combo move: Subdecay Starlight Mk II into OBNE Dark Star 👀 = Dark Starlight
🤯 *WHOA!*
Flanger is so prog/retro cool that you don't even need to wait for it go out of fashion and then come back in again. It just is.
If you disagree with me, you're a bad person and your opinions are bad and you should feel bad because of that.
You’re really hitting your stride with the demo tunes, so many good ones in this video. Really cool to hear some live drums in addition to your creative synth sequences too. I feel ambivalent about flange but I got the Rowan from Lantern Manufacturing recently and it’s an interesting take - kinda raw / lofi, with a cool distortion circuit built in.
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Hey Emily. I build a Flanger with a "space dirt" feature on it. If you ever want to feature it.
But can a flanger build itself????
Find out next Wednesday
8:02 Moog MF-108M also has different waveforms. My fav is the stepped sample and hold (random discreet values)
yep was just going to say the 108 can do a lot of what she said few pedals can do.
You got to be Flanging Kiddin me! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
13:40 - If you make more videos like this and updated pedals come out, you should make a small update video that goes over all those new pedals that've come out. Could be one way of countering that xD
The Spectre sounds wiiiild with harp
They say that you have to try something 15 times before you can make a decision on whether you like it or not… This is true for flangers… And olives.
My first musical memory of flanger is Unchained by Van Halen...not a flange fan! Not really interested in much modulation at all besides a good chorus.
I kinda like that Starlight though...
And yet some of the best chorus sounds can be had by using a flanger
@@logrinn post some examples and settings please??? I'm curious...the subtler the better.
@@MatthewSwasta Here you go. I did a quick recording. I'm using the Flanger in my TC Electronic Plethora. This is the same as their stand-alone Vortex. I just chose a Tone Print I really liked that is subtle and "chorusy".
ruclips.net/user/shortsS-nNCk6vJHI?feature=share
@@logrinn wow man, thanks for that. Many people just make comments without backing up their opinions with evidence. This is great.
I still like a subtle chorus a bit more. Flanger often has this "hollowness" (to me) when set as chorus-like sounds. Some choruses do that as well. I am mostly a fan and user of reverbs and delays mostly, and love using modulation within those effects, again, very subtly.
@@MatthewSwasta I agree about the hollowness. There is a slightly different character to flanger compared to chorus. This flanger toneprint is a favourite of mine though.
Another really nice ”chorus” sound is to use a pitch shifter and detune the signal slightly. This mixed with the original signal creates a really really nice ”chorus” - but without the movement.
For me, a flanger can be used to dial in a phaser, chorus, vibe, etc…. All the effects people ARE excited about 😂. But seriously they are really nice in their own right. I think an era of flange appreciation is clearly here.
I recently bought an MXR Micro Flanger. It's a treat. It doesn't make poorly robot noises & it doesn't brew coffee but what it does is sweet and musically useful.
I just realized who you remind me of, you look like Margalo from Stuart Little.
The one big omission for me and one I'd love to hear on Harp is the Electric Mistress. It's more Chorus-like than most Flangers, or at least can be used in place of one. I'm also in the position where I wasn't super into the airplane noises, but I fell in love with the Mistress. I had a Stereo Mistress - digital pedal with Chorus and Flanger, then the big Big Box Deluxe, and now I use a little Mooer Eleclady.
Another type of Flanger that's kind of interesting is a Hi-Band flanger - I owned the Boss HF-2 for a while, it was a really nice tastey purplish pink and I kind of miss it for that reason. One of the pedals you demo'd probably has it as an option though - I'm not sure I'd keep one around as a dedicated pedal.
Agreed! The Electric Mistress can be a little noisy, but between the two modes you can find some pretty amazing sounds. There's a guy in eastern Europe who makes an exact copy of the original that he calls the Roxanne and I got one... it's pretty awesome, and cheaper than an original :)
Electric mistress has always been my go-to. It’s used by so many guitarists and on so many rock songs that I’ve never considered flanger to be an under-utilized effect. David Gilmour, for instance, has flanger (e-mistress) on a ton of his solos.
The Mooer e-lady/elec-lady is a really good inexpensive clone for anyone looking.
Other than that, I use my Strymon v2 deco - probably my favorite, (almost) always-on pedal now, which has a great flanger built in (only engaged when pedal is depressed, though, which has pros and cons)
all this time...nae realised that i were simply resting my hand on the flange. NOW, my life is SO MUCH BETTER!!!
everything is 8-bit and crunchy.
I love this. I love my flanger so much, its subtle but a great sound. Flanger on bass guitar is my personal favorite instrument to mess with.
Siouxsie did it best!
right, Jet Phasor on bass
I love the shot at 8:12 where Russ is taking all the other pedals one by one until you talk about the one that's left! Very smooth!
I am rooting for more Dreadbox but CV modulation from some external sources. Adjusting the rate from a Chromatic module, or modular synth used for a lead line to give some wobble to the rate of the near Barberpole Flange effect the Komorebi can do, perhaps. Chiptune drums run through the Komorebi and use the LFO out to modulate the Treminator, or any other effect that can be modulated for a harp effects chain.
Can't really go wrong with EQD or OBNE in my opinion
Agreed!
I like flangers but I think that's the Metal-Zone of effects pedals since the sounds it produces can get really messy and obnoxious when you don't know what you're doing.
As you said, when paired with other effects it can be beautiful. Flangers with univibes are like *chef kiss*.
A super cool ultra flanged song is Canned Funk by Joe Farrel, one of my absolute favorites.
Best chorus/flanger pedal is a flanger with Reticon SAD1024 chip. Electric Mistress, FL-305 etc.
My '77/78 MXR M117 has the Reticon SAD 1024.... and a bad filter cap. oddly, it sounds Better😲
@@erikavery1105 Can you describe the difference?
@@HenritheHorse Clean, you cant really hear it. I hit it with overdrive or distortion, it gets these.....Weiiiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrd oscillations, depending on How the knobs are set and how many repeats I feed it with my Delay pedal. It's what I interpret what an LSD or Mushroom Trip Might Sound like.
@@erikavery1105 Funny that you say that. First time on acid I laid on my back on the floor playing an acoustic guitar and the sound was swirling, flanging, phasing around my head and bouncing back with all kinds of delays.
Currently, I have a Kona single hum strat style electric, an ion blue tooth am/fm speaker combo with mic and input jack with a digitech xp element multi effects processer.
A good flanger can be quite versatile. Listening in isolation is like viewing a splotch of paint. Context is everything.
Flangers are awesome...
I think I like them most when they're slow and on a low depth setting for droning things in the background. I am really enjoying this video!
Honestly same! I like that for regular flanger sounds, but with weird waveforms and experimental sounds, all bets are off! 😂 Thanks so much 😊
Get your hands on a Moogerfooger MF-108M ClusterFlux. Discontinued, and used prices are through the roof. But this one is very, very special.
I LOVE FLANGER. I love them. I like the electric mistress sound particularly
As someone who comes from more of an in-the-box perspective, I disliked flangers for a lot of years, because I was a little too indoctrinated by the echo chamber of music production communities and tutorials all emphasizing very hard on why so-called "flanging artefacts" are not good. ofc the arguments are valid. you wouldn't want a really important sound to have flanging artefacts in mono, when sounding totally cool in stereo, because of the haas effect, if your music could be played on a mono soundsystem. but when you focus too much on such technical aspects and details of sound creation you can lose track of the beauty of those artefacts and the very effects that create them on purpose, in which case they are not called "artefacts" anymore. I had to listen to Witthüser & Westrupp and Tame Impala to realize that flangers, despite being really simple effects, are actually some of the most awesome ones in existence. Flangers are basically feedback vibratos after all. They are the lofiness of fractals, or the vibe of the recursion.
A crate amp, Digitech multi-effects, and pawn shop guitar are usually all that I usually use.
To me, it's just remedial frequency and cognitive exercise.
I've never cared much for the flanger whoosh either and it was always my least favourite of the bucket brigade effects until I listened to John McGeoch's guitar playing with Magazine. As it happens, he used an MXR Flanger, the one flanger not in this video!
You can puree olive, garlic, herbs and oil, and smear the resulting paste (tapenade) on grilled meats, like steak. Its amazing.
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Back to sawcebag? Yesterday I was an olive :c
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The Boss Flanger sounds the best as a flanger. There were some cool sounds on the others, but the most useful was the Boss. I have an MXR and it's totally useless and makes R2D2 sounds, which doesn't work well for guitar. Great video as usual, you are so cool.
Nobody likes flanger because the name flanger is repulsive. Had they called it a phlangeleon pedal, the world would be a much different, more flanger loving world.
Or, for extra panache, Phlægeleon.
Yes. Good.
The snippet you did with the oblivion pedal sounds like something out of a modern video game going through like an 8bit adventure.
PS. Olives are gross
@@theglitchguardian agreed (except on tuna pizza, they're somewhat okay on there)
Adrian belew uses a flanger to make his guitar sound like an elephant on 'elephant talk' from king crimsons 'discipline' album from 1980.
I love flanger pedals. Every drummer I ever played with hated it LOL!
I don't like electronic flanging. I learned about flanging as a DJ when you play two of the same record at the same time and same place, but you ever so slightly increase and decrease the speed of one of them. In music production, I produce the flange effect the same way. I duplicate a track, midi or audio, and I start one of the tracks about 0.5 after the other track. To get the full flange effect, I can move portions of one of the tracks slowly, back and forth 0.0 +/- 0.5. It's the 'natural' way to flange and is better than the electronic plugins effect, in my opinion.
Strymon has a stereo, multi-stage phaser pedal called the Zelzah that can basically do flanger sounds too. That would probably be pretty cool to mess around with on harp.
I used that one on the JHS show! It’s in their live episode I was on! It was fun haha
@@emilyharpist Nice, I'll have to check it out
The random as well as different wave tyoes the Moogerfooger has also. Namely Cluster flux MF 108.
I never cared for the "jet plane" effect, but any decent flanger stomp can be dialed in to make crazy sounds which nobody ever uses for the most part. I might call it a neglected and underused effect.
that bf-2 has become my go-to chorus pedal with the right settings. Got rid of my CE-2 because i found the chorus from my flanger way more complex and rich sounding, almost DC-2 like.
I really like this exploration of flanger! As a producer, I've always looked for new ways to apply effects in a musical way, and I got a few cool ideas from this video! Specifically the one where the wet signal fades in and out
I think a lot of people mistaken a flanger as a chorus with extra steps. Nothing wrong with a BF2, though. I have a green label BF2 with is a permanent part of my pedalboard.
Of course you can't goth unless you also flange...
I've got a flanger pedal by Morley. It's built up like a wha-wha. When you press the pedal it effects the rate of the flanger. So you can create nice vibes in real time messing up with the rate of the effect. I think it's from the late 70's or early 80's
just back fromguitar summit. the ehx sucks. the walrus was ok… hx stomp model, ok to meh…but they sound NOTHING like my ginormus 81deluxe mistress. its always fat, warm. very hard to get nasty or metallic. its like a chorus on steroids. or a leslie. maybe smthgs broken.
I hear so many good things about that one!
My feelings about this video are reflected perfectly @9:05
👌💖✨ * Musical stank face *
Epic video! So many cool Flangerinos. And Shout out to all those SICK FIRE BEATS🔥😎🤙 JOE & JARED NAILED IT🤘(and those synth beats were EPIC too!)
Great video, gang🫡👍
*ʜᴇ'ʟʟ ʏᴇ'ᴀʜ*
@soveriegn777 💖💫🫶🥒
@@lexhitreset You mah boi, blue. 🫶🌠🥒
If you hate flangers... Try more acid. Works every time.
I love that I don't really know anything about pedals but here I am, listening to whatever Emily show me so maybe, one day, I might start playing an electric didgeridoo with a lot of reverb pedals. That might be cool
You can mic up a normal didgeridoo too and add effetcs.
Never too late to start!
This video was killer - I would have sent you my old EHX electric mistress for this video ❤
I love flanger but I never set it too “strong” which is when it sound like shit 😅. I set it almost always like you would set a phaser (that effect would also sound like shit if you set it too wet)
Im going to get pyramids, to start, spectre is way too expensive, thanks 🎉🎉
*_All these boutique pedals getting demoed and then the BF-2 hits and it’s like… yep, that’s it. That’s the one. 👍_*
One excellent flanger not mentioned is the Polychrome by Walrus Audio. It has a wide variety of parameters that can be very customizable. It doesn't have randomized waveforms, but still worth checking out!
It definitely DOES have a randomized waveform.
Great video! But even wit your excellent uses and exploration, I can confirm I dislike flangers quite a lot and far prefer other filter movement. There's just something about the movement of a flanger that I find just...unappealing. I'm glad others like it, but it's just not for me. Thanks for the exploration!
I just like the purple color of the boss flanger.
👾💜✨same
Yeah I still prefer phaser :) And even that is kinda gimmicky tbh
When will she do a video with Virgin Rock? I want to see the latter's eyes be shocked at what a harp can do with pedals...
Love the presentation of this, it's nice to see so many different examples of something that is perceived sort of as a mono-culture, or as always the same...
wait i mean, now this is epic
Okay I was part of the anti flanger crew until this video.
"Chase Bliss Let me Borrow this" she's started talking in the third person
Flangers are just unpopular because not enough people have heard the bridge to freak scene
Alternative title- Chill Lo-Fi hip-hop beats to stop hating and love the flange to
I’ve never thought of a jet plane sound when it comes to flangers, and also didn’t realize people didn’t like them for some reason.
It's like the gym class kid that never gets picked for the team finally had his day!! Epic, love the flanger flavor 🫒🫒🫒🫒
I like using flanger end of chain as a subtle movement/contour. Polymoon or Deco are what I like. However I’m now curious about Pyramids or some sort of analog flanger…. Stereo electric mistress maybe?
My 1983 Ibanez FL9 Flanger is the second pedal I've ever owned...it still works! I also have an Original 1977/78 MXR M117 Flanger(in my JHS Board) and a tc electronic Vortex. I use a Boss BF-3 in my Bass Board. I can get nearly every sound I need out of 'em.
I have a Moog MF-108 cluster flux and it is outrageously flexible with negative and positive feedback and everything being controllable from CV. It is another flanger with selectable wave forms.
I really like flangers and harp apparently, its a trip, and am here for the ride.
Flanger is best used super slow being triggered by drums
Almost get like a bassline effect
I love flange. Its such a beautiful effect. Brings so much atmosphere
Awesome overview, thank you for it :D
Love the BF2 for those 80s Prince vibes!
Every other guitar player will always tell you for any fx that you have to go boss. My friends' awesome band sounds half as awesome because they play so many boss pedals, their over-buffered signal chain sounds totally choked 🙃
Great video, thanks so much 🙏
interesting! I've never given much thought to flanger sounds in general. Very interesting!
My favorite flanger in my collection is the MOOGERFOOGER CLUSTER FLUX.
I also have a DIGITECH TURBO FLANGE and a MINIFOOGER FLANGE. I should probably pick up one of those SUBDECAY STARLIGHT FLANGERs that EMILY shows in the video.