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savinggrace

savinggrace

Jul 1, 2003
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#1
I have read on here people recommending the Foxrox TZF as a flanger. However, I can not tell if any of these people that have posted have actually played a bass through one.

The reason I ask is because as far as I know, the Foxrox TZF doesnt work too well with bass?!!!

Fess up! Or set me straight!!!
 
#3
bongomania said:
I posted earlier that I might choose a TZF if I wanted an expensive flanger, but I have not actually tried one yet. I was mostly going on the "idea" of it, and the knowledge that Foxrox makes quality stuff.
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Bongo- your reviews and such always are dead on. I have heard the TZF with guitar and it is the most amazing flanger that I have encountered. I was skeptical about buying one before hearing ho wit interacts with bass and emailed Dave. He recommended against it as the frequency range is set up to work with guitar- sadly!!!/ madly!!! :mad: - and is how it actually achieves the through zero effect- But I agree, his pedals are of the utmost quality.
 
#5
The Line 6 Liqua-Flange also offers through-zero flanging. I'd be curious to compare the two. Unfortunately, the samples on Line 6's website don't show the through-zero effect.

On a side note, my understanding is that in order to do a proper through-zero flange, you have to slightly delay the unaffected signal. I'm not sure why/how this might affect such an effect's performance with bass. I really love that phase-cancelling swoooosh....
 
#6
To my understanding flanging is made by using a really short delay time and shifting it's duration. Usually this is done by assigning a low frequency occillator <sp?> to shift the short delay's length back and forth from short to longer. A lot of the older analog flangers used the same type of "bucket brigade" chips that you would find powering an analog delay pedal. I think the Foxrox flanger uses these analog delay chips for it's flanging. The Foxrox seems like it would be a cool one as you can hook up a foot pedal to manually adjust the delay time and control the flanger's sweep with your foot. If I were going to be sinking that much money into a flanger for versitility's sake I would recommend trying to check out some of the bucket brigade modules Doepfer offers. They make a lot of different modular synthesizer components, but with more control over the parameters you can do a range of stuff from flanging to longer delays into utter sonic meyhem if one were so inclined. For a good cheaper alternative, a lot of guys on here seem to swear by the Boss BF-2. A lot of the sound samples I've heard have been pretty impressive. And I believe MXR has recently reissued their older style analog flanger, which I've been meaning to try to go check out. Hope that helps a bit.
 

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