[sdiy] slightly OT: Danelectro Hash Browns FLanger & crappy sound

[anthony]

This is probably more appropriate at a stompbox forum, but I tend to 
appreciate the repsonses I get here more.
Anyway I read a few reviews about the Danelectro Hash Browns Flanger. I 
expected that all of them would say something like "the crappiest crap that 
ever crapped," but people seem to like it. So I went to a guitar store to 
try it out - ya know because it's nice and cheap and so am I. So I tried it. 
Shit sandwich. What it sounded like to me was that they had 2 BBD's in there 
and their clocks were aliasing. Or more likely it was just really bad clock 
feedthrough. It was a squeal. I was wondering if these used the reissued 
MN3207's. I'm wary of Hong Kong chip knock-offs and wondered how they 
actually sound. I mean I was wondering if it was simply a design issue or 
crappy parts - critical parts that can't simply be swapped out (well...). I 
figured if it was the BBD I could put in an old 3207 since I have one. (But 
I kind of like it in my Realistic Reverb.) Or I could put it in a different 
box and change soem capacitors here and there. But there gets to be a point 
of diminishing returns. Besides I built a John Hollis flanger - I just 
haven't put it in a box. The reason why I'm interested in more than one 
flanger is I decided that instead of having one flanger that does everything 
it would be more fun to have several that were each tweaked to do something 
special.

My big problem is finding decnelty priced prject boxes that are big enough. 
I really have enough BBD's to not warrant a purchase of any BBD device. 
Improvised enclosures are fun, but I often can't find just the right thing. 
I suppose I could gather dead stompboxes on eBay. I have a Geiger counter 
that is going to become an analog multi-effects processor (compressor, 
chorus, flanger, phaser - fixed and variable, comb filter array using 
MN3006's, CGS Steiner-Parker filter, Buchla Lowpass Gate, envelope follower, 
asymmetric soft clipping distortion...)