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

[harrybissell]

LOL... you're right, right rigth.

More appropriate in a stompbox forum... but since you being this EVIL
here...

Picture him saying "BBD" and I replay in a gruff voice

"We do not SPEAK the language of MORDOR here..."

I don't know that there is inherently anything wrong (besides being
a BBD) with the Hong Kong reissues.

Your description sounds about like what I thought when I tried the
"Electric Mistress" for the first time... like "who would pay money
for this piece of sh!t ?"

However, many people did.... and swear by the sound. (not me :^)

In order to do a BBD 'right' you need sophisticated filtering before
and after the chip, as well as companding etc... 

I like sescom.com rack mount cases. Don't know if you call them 'cheap'
but they are real easy to work with.

H^) harry

anthony wrote:
> 
> 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...)