How do you use your flanger?

[timmyc]

I have just bought a BF-2 Flanger and am getting some really good results. I just wanted to ask how you use your flanger e.g What parts of a song, quick flange, slow etc. Any favourite settings will also be appriciated.

 

[dumelow]

i use my flanger with really low rate and really high depth so i get a massive swoosh with my big muff, sounds ace for solo bass parts or bits that need a bit of noise behind it

i also use the tremoloish cutting sound it has, and someties crank all the controls so its like a strange whistling noise

 

[tplyons]

I like it with a low rate, medium depth just so there's a bit of motion in sustained notes.

 

[syciprider]

I use it full speed with an octave up mixed in if I want a percussion like, clanging sound (like when I play bass along to the verses of No Quarter).

Otherwise I just kick it in for the nice ethereal whoosh that everyone describes.

 

[bongomania]

+1 for ethereal whoosh.

 

[Willem]

This could be a useful thread for me as well, since I don't own my BF 2 that long either. But my fave setting for the moment is manual 5:00 (full clockwise), rate + depth 2:00 and res 7:00 (full counterclockwise). Gives me a subtle but noticable flange/phase.

 

[The BurgerMeister]

it's all about the ethereal whoosh, mang.

 

[syciprider]

Wait, maybe I should patent that.

Ethereal Whoosh tm

 

[Plain Old Me]

The effect that I use on my GT-6B (which I programmed in myself) where you can here the flange is pretty unique and awesome. I control the rate and resonance with the expression pedal, so I can adjust the rate and max out at a kind of laser sound. I also have a bit of reverb on the effect, giving it even more depth. The sound is pretty much undescribable.