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Best flanger for bass.....

gregmon79

gregmon79

Dec 20, 2012
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#1
What do you guys all think is the best flanger out there to use with bass guitar?? I'm thinking I'm buying one with tax money this year and would really like to pick up a great flanger. I really want a whammy too but, I can't always get what I want haha
 
#8
I've used a few different flangers (Boss BF-2/3,DOD Jet,Bass and that brown one, Subdecay Quantam, Moog Clusterflux, ADA flanger). Of all of these for size.power supply ease and overall sound my fav is my Ibanez SF-10 Swell Flanger. It's very jet like at high settings and makes for a nice chorus as well as many sweet flange sounds. There are three trimpots (res,bias and sounds like delay time to me) and I keep the res and delay maxed for AMAZING takeoffs and sweeps!
 
#11
So, silly, have you used the boss bf-3? I think I'm either going with the boss bf-3 or the ibanez you're speaking of. I've never heard of the ibanez sf-10 but then again, I haven't payed much attention to flangers ever. Do you think the sf-10 will be better than the boss bf-3 in your honest opinion?
 
#12
gregmon79 said:
So, silly, have you used the boss bf-3? I think I'm either going with the boss bf-3 or the ibanez you're speaking of. I've never heard of the ibanez sf-10 but then again, I haven't payed much attention to flangers ever. Do you think the sf-10 will be better than the boss bf-3 in your honest opinion?
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Um, yes, I have used the BF-3 and am currently using it. Do I think the SF-10 will be better? I have no clue. I used vintage FL-9s and have little or no experience with current production flangers.

I can tell you that the BF-3 is pretty cool. It has a few cool settings on it. There is a gate that is pretty wild sounding and it has a "Temporary" setting which allows you to use the pedal by stepping on the button and when you take your foot off it, the effect turns off. This is very handy when you have to use more than one effect for one passage and then at the end you need to turn them all off quickly ( Think opening of "Killing in the Name").

At any rate, I am very happy with it.
 
#14
The Source Audio Orbital Modulator has a really great flanger. Multiple programming options with it as well. I got one a few weeks ago and love it. It should be released in February. It also has Chorus/Phaser/Tremolo too.
 
#19
I like the bf-3 too. The gate/chop setting is very cool. I had an old Ibanez swell flanger, not sure of the model number, and I found the volume variations to be off-putting (the "swell" in swell flanger) and also when on the quiet part of the cycle it seemed to lose bass, although maybe that was just a volume thing. The swell flanger kills on guitar though, and other than the volume variation bugging me it was a good pronounced deep flange with lots of color and whoosh. I feel like the boss is a solid utility pedal, some of the boutique ones might cop some better ecsoteric tones, maybe more distinctive, but the boss works very well for me. It does have a slight volume boost when engaged, but I find that to be useful, although for others it makes the bf-3 unusable.
 

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