[sdiy] Flanger???

[Ivan Schwartz]

Does anyone remember the Wasatch Music Systems (WMS) flanger?  I think it had a built-in noise source with a gate so that you could add more "whoosh" to the sound.

Ivan

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> From: 	harry
> Sent: 	Thursday, May 23, 2002 8:12 PM
> To: 	Tom May
> Cc: 	synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: 	Re: [sdiy] Flanger???
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> Tom May wrote:
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> > Too bad.  I like good noise in a flanger.  Digital flangers and
> > plugins sound too clean to me after growing up with an MXR stompbox
> > flanger.  Despite the fact that I have called the local airport noise
> > complaint line many times(*), I like the "jet flying overhead" affect
> > from the MXR.
> >
> 
> Well... it would be easy to add some white/pink (or other color ;^) noise
> to
> a nice quiet flanger... than to remove the BBD noise from a poor one...
> 
> My first experience with the BBD was the "Electric Mistress" flanger...
> which
> I thought totally SUCKED and could not believe anyone-in-their-right-mind
> would buy.
> 
> (of course, buy they did... proving again that I am not the only opinion
> in
> the world....)
> 
> The audio examples mentioned for 'through-zero' flanging DO have the jet
> plane sound... but it is strictly from modulation of the audio signal...
> not excess
> system noise.
> 
> I do agree... if it is the 'jet plane' sound you like, the BBDs do it
> well...even
> without the added complexity of feeding in an input signal.   ;^P
> 
> H^) harry
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