>The original poster asked about a great sounding Flanger but didn't say
>anything about what he wanted it to do. If he just wants it to swish up
>>and down via a LFO, then many have given some suggestions,
>although forgetting to mention what some people think is the best sounding
>>flanger the ADA.
That has that odd/even switch, doesn't it??
My favorite flange is the SDD-2000 -- the most vicious flange I have ever
heard. It definitely has that early 80's industrial sound -- very
strident, grainy and digital, with an obvious swoosh.
The thing about flangers is that noise helps define the effect (like smoke
helps define lighting). The EH Electric Mistress, a BBD pedal, is very
warm, sweet, noisy, and useful, but it doesn't have any sort of external
control. It also has a very obvious low-pass effect. I like it with
samples, especially vocal samples, but it often sounds too mellow with
analog sources.
I like the Roland SDE-330 for pretty, smooth, bright, sparkley, clean,
wide-bandwidth, flanging. It also has a nice stereo output. The annoying
things about this unit are that the power cord is permanently attached, and
the MIDI implementation could be much better. Other that, it sounds fine.
>But if he is like me and wants to wrap a sound up into an intense Tomita
>>like flange that sounds like a jet taking off and hitting that satisfying
>through-zero climax, then he will be disappointed by them all. For that,
>>the Lexicon MPX 100 (and probably the MPX 500) has a preset with
>adjustable
>parameters, and it sounds great. Or he will have to use two digital delays
I have several Lexicons, but I don't like any of them for flanging. It's
simply not a matter of being too clean, as I don't like the Vortex flanging
either. The PCM-80/81 has excellent external control (both MIDI and CV), a
massive amount of parameters, and six independent delays, but for some
reason I've never found a flange that I've liked. Other than that they're
great!! Maybe I'm just not programming it properly.