For you guys who DON'T hate flangers....

[duhvoodooman]

....I bring you my build of the BYOC Flanger. This is actually a beta kit, though the commercial kit should be available very soon. Keith Vonderhulls came up with a clever way to incorporate the different flanger circuit approaches of two classic analog flangers--MXR and A/DA--in a single effect in a switchable configuration. So if you're not a flanger-phobe, this is a very flexible one with a ton of interesting sounds.

 

[markb]

Don't the Flangers live next door to the Simpsons?

 

[marnold]

Cool! Complicated, but still cool. Need some clippage!

 

[Tibernius]

Need some clippage!

Seconded.

I've heard of MXR before, but not A/DA. What would you say the difference in tone is between the two?

 

[duhvoodooman]

I've heard of MXR before, but not A/DA. What would you say the difference in tone is between the two?

While the MXR design uses a single delay chip and produces the "textbook" whooshy sound flangers are known for, A/DA took quite a different approach, using two delay chips in parallel and mixing the two signals out of phase. This gives a different tone, more lush in character with an extra dimension of modulation. Keith refers to it as "3-dimensional", which seems like a good way to describe it. IMO, not as generally useful as the MXR sound, but capable of generating more complex and interesting sounds. Check out the BYOC video clip and you'll hear some examples: