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Old 02-26-2009, 12:43 AM
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Ibanex Fl-99 Flanger... with clips.

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So, I have a flanger. Its a flanger I had like 8 years ago, traded, and decided I needed to get back. So, this isn't going to be much of a review because I really like the flanger and I'm biased.

Controls are speed, depth, manual, and regen. There's a second footswitch called intense. (it does what it sounds like and makes the flanging more intense, but seems to fill out the bass a bit more than before.) There's a filter that emphasizes the mids, and in normal mode this is really noticible, thins out the sound, and makes it more filter-y than flanger-y. In intense mode, the filter picks up the mids, but its more subtle, and less bass is lost.

I think that it sounds nice and thick, and there's a pretty decent range of feels, with some of them really metallic, swoopy and redicuous and others actually kind of warm and "organic". Between the manual and regen knobs, it can almost sound like the LFO turns around twice. WIth the depth all the way down, you get stationary flanger sounds... so some extra fun to be had there.

The regen covers a decent range, but there's an internal trimmer for more control. Minimum regen doesn't quite hit chorus teritory, and max makes funny oscillating rubberband sounds on its own.

So, I made some mediocre soundclips, but I think that my new appartment is a bad environment electrically for cheap laptop and Imic recordings. There's a bit of a high pitched sound in the background, and its not there in reality, the flanger and blueberry are pretty quiet.

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The badslap clip is bad slap thats trying to show that the thing gets pretty filter-y. Manual shows some of the differences in manual settings, but they didn't turn out really well on the recording. There's a bit more range on it than they show, and it really helps to dial in how metallic or warm the flanger sounds. It never hits the extremes, but there is definately some variability.

The clean and dirt with high/low regen are pretty self explanitory. Any dirt comes from the blueberry, and these clips usually go... no flanger, flanger on, flanger on with filter, intense on, intense on with filter. The others I can't remember the order of settings(there were some whiskeys while I recorded these), so if its thinner its just the flanger, thicker its on "intense mode". And the filter is pretty apparent.

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Old 02-26-2009, 01:15 AM
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Thanks for posting, I'm kind of looking at flangers right now, and was curious as to what the ibanez/maxon flangers sounded like (According to rccollins they are very similar in sound, but the maxon is much quieter in operation). Thanks for posting
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Have to say I like that flange sound! Nice and thick! That Blueberry doesn't sound half bad either, haha.
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Old 02-26-2009, 01:26 AM
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edited for a photo... Its the big discontinued one, not the one thats similar to the maxon.
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Ah, good to know.
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Old 02-26-2009, 06:22 AM
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Both the classic flange and classic phase sound great on bass.
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