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A few months back we did a demo of the T-Rex Twister II chorus /flanger and it’s a great sounding pedal. The Twister II was created to replace the original Twister – version 1 (correct me if that’s not the case). Everyone knows what to expect when it comes to T-Rex – quality in build and tone. I was excited today to see a great deal on the T-Rex Twister Chorus/Flanger at Amazon. This pedal lists for $399.00, and is usually available for $299, but is currently on sale for a crazy price of $120.16! That’s $278.84 off of list price! At the time of this post there were only 2 left in stock. This price might jump up when it gets down to 1, so it’ll be a race to pick up this deal, but wanted to post it regardless. This pedal also ships with FREE super saver shipping!.

Here is the official description of the T-Rex Twister Chorus/Flanger:

The Twister chorus and flanger effects pedal from T-Rex Engineering is for guitarists who seek a shimmering, rich, vibrant, swirling chorus/flanger tone.

A chorus effect brings your sound to life, adding a dynamic vibrancy to the sonic texture of any song you use it on. But a chorus and a flanger?

Although they sound quite different, these 2 classic effects are so closely related that a single pedal can produce them both. T-Rex deviates from the usual path with The Twister and builds 2 separate units inside a single stompbox. While the chorus adds sparkle and shine to your sound, the flanger puts a funky twist on both chords and single-note lines. Give The Twister a try and discover how this T-Rex pedal is the wild and weird effect you’ve been seeking.

The Twister pedal is packed with features that make sure you get chorus or flange your way. The Twister has a mono output for running through an amp on stage and stereo outputs for the studio or live stereo setups. In chorus mode, the light/heavy switch lets you quickly switch between 2 classic variants of the chorused sound, while the brilliant Tone control lets you take some of the top off for a more subtle effect.

Again, the T-Rex Twister Chorus/Flanger is on sale for only $120.16 at Amazon!

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Today I wanted to talk about the Electro-Harmonix XO Stereo Polychorus. This is the classic ‘Nirvana’ effect used in “Come as you are”. The polychorus, as the name implies, is not just a chorus effect. It is an analog chorus effect, with flanger and slapback echo functionality and allowing you to combine all for some cool sounds and textures. Electro-Harmonix recently put this in their XO enclosure and changed some of controls. The original had ‘width’ and ‘plate’ and this version now has ‘sweep filter’ and ‘sweep rate’. The other controls are still there – ‘tune/delay’, ‘feedback’ and ‘mode’.

Here is the official description of the Electro-Harmonix XO Stereo Polychorus:

NOW IN THE NEW AND IMPROVED DIE CAST CHASSIS
The final word in analog chorus pedals. The classic that Kurt Cobain and Adrian Belew relied on to create their signature sounds. The Stereo Polychorus provides the lushest stereo chorus, rich chiming flange, and the over-the-edge effects that made this versatile pedal legendary.

I found this great video by EHX demoing some of the tones that you can get with the Stereo Polychorus, including the Nivana-esque tone as well as a very close King Crimson tone. Very cool.

You can pick up the Electro-Harmonix XO Stereo Polychorus for $222.00 at Amazon.com

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The following is a guest post by Dave Parsons. If you are interested in guest posting, please contact me! Dave is struggling with his Boss BF-3 for his bass, and he writes about it below. If you have any suggestions, please comment below!

Nobody asked me but if they had, I would tell ‘em that there’s only one band who should be covering “stranglehold” by Ted Nugent, and the name of that band is Killdozer.  There’s a remote chance that some of the personnel in the cover band I play bass for has heard of the movie, but there’s no way any of them have heard of or listened to Killdozer, and I am certain that most 46 year old guitar players who still wear asics wrestling shoes on and off stage haven’t either.

So we (the cover band) are playing on a flatbed at the end of main street in Ione, Wa.  I have my Boss BF-3 flanger sandwiched between a fender tuner pedal and a tube screamer.  The reason why I’m running a tube screamer is because a friend of mine turned me on to the concept of a “buffer”, after I whined to him about how un-flangey my flanger was the last time I used it for this song.  Conceptually, the powers that be in the band told me to keep the flanger effect off until the song breaks down in the middle, that way when I get to the flanger part it will be “really special”.  Anyway, back to the show, here comes the “really special” part, I step on the flanger…not enough enveloping, not sounding very special.  I step on the tube screamer, and that helps a little.  The tube screamer is set with hardly any distortion, because I didn’t want the low-end of the bass to be zapped out by it.  There’s a dude who looks to be in his mid-50’s, and he’s loving it, but he most likely did way too much spray-painting out in the garage with all the doors closed back in the day, so I’m not trusting his reaction.  My ears are hearing total suckage, compared to what I am envisioning the sound should be.

I can’t remember what the occasion was (I’m thinking it was a DARE sponsored event?) but Ted Nugent spoke in front of the students at Hellgate High several years ago, and apparently was dropping fuck bombs every other word.  I would earmark this as the last interesting thing I ever heard re: the ‘Nuge.  I saw him years later on TV, crawling around his compound/home on a “hunt” or whatever, he seemed so completely un-interesting.  I listened to a fair amount of Double-Live Gonzo and Weekend Warriors back in 6th grade, and he occupied that “wild-man” section of likeability with me, but I never really cared much for what he was doing.

I may set something up differently for our next gig, which is in Victor MT.  Our collective volume needs to remain low enough for the waitstaff to shout in their chicken strip orders, so even if I do get the mucho flange-o I seek, it’s going to be a totally vanilla churchey low-volume delivery. I do have one other pedal, a Marshall distortion, and I may try that in lieu of the tube screamer.

Let me know if you’re planning on attending, I’ll be sure to Febreeze my loincloth.

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This has been a great give away with a ton of entries. So without further ado, the winner of the Source Audio Soundblox Tri-Mod Flanger Give Away is George DesRoches of Rhode Island! Congrats George, the pedal will ship tomorrow, please let us know what you think.

I would also like to send out a special thank you to Source Audi0 for sponsoring this give away and letting us take it for a test drive! Please check out Source Audi0 for their other products also follow them on Twitter and Facebook too!

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Hello Everyone. I just wanted to remind everyone that the Source Audio Soundblox Tri-Mod Flanger give away is still happening. The guys at Source Audio were kind enough to sponsor this give away so a lucky EffectsBay.com reader is going to walk away with this great sounding pedal. The give away officially ends on July 18th at 12PM MST. To enter go here:  “Source Audio Soundblox Tri-Mod Flanger Give Away!”

For those of you not familiar with the Source Audio Soundblox Tri-Mod Flanger, you can read our review: “Demo of Source Audio Soundblox Tri-Mod Flanger“. There are two videos and high quality MP3s available for it.

Make sure you get your entry in time, and if you know anyone that might be interested in the pedal, please let them know about it! Make sure you check out Source Audio for their other great pedals. Awesome stuff there!

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CONTEST IS CLOSED

Well, I hope everyone had a safe and fun 4th of July. All fingers remaining? Minimal hangover this morning? Bowels not too balled up with various forms of tubular and patty form meat products. Okay, if we’re all good, let’s start off the week’s posts with a doozy!

Last week, I posted a review of the Source Audio Soundblox Tri-Mod Flanger. When Will Cady sent that over, he thought it would be fun to put on a give away with that particular unit, and I was super down with that idea! So first, I would like to send out a special thank you to Will Cady and the guys at Source Audio for allowing this give away to happen.

Now, if you’re unfamiliar with the Source Audio Soundblox Tri-Mod Flanger, please give the review a read and listen – “Demo of Source Audio Soundblox Tri-Mod Flanger“. You’ll find breakdown of controls, two demo videos with high quality MP3 clips as well.

I wanted to talk about Source Audio in general. They’ve been a long time friend to EffectsBay.com and have been putting out some quality gear since 2005. They do an excellent job of demonstrating their pedals with some quality videos. Make sure you stay connected to their blog for these videos and related news. I particularly like their series when they go into details about the guts of their pedals, and the logic behind them. Good stuff.

Source Audio is really starting to get great exposure by the artists using their pedals. You’re definitely seeing them more and more on pedalboards and in effect racks. To see who has been using Source Audio gear, please check out their Artists page. It’s impressive. Also, please be sure to check them out on Twitter and Facebook too!

So how do you win this awesome flanger pedal?  I’m going to select one random entry. I will email that random entry asking for the answer to the question listed below. They will have 24 hours to respond with the answer. If the 24 hours passes, I will select a new random entry and repeat the process until I receive confirmation from the winner.  This is open to everyone. Yes, that means international! Also, one entry per person. Please read that last sentence again… “one” “entry” “per” “person”.

The submission form will be open until July 18th 12PM MST.

First, this is not a requirement, but you should ‘like’ EffectsBay on Facebook. It’s good way to keep in touch with new give aways and posts. Also, please consider joining the official EffectsBay.com mailing list.

Okay.. here’s the question. What is your favorite guitarist/bassist out there that uses a flanger?

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A while back Will Cady of Source Audio sent me a Soundblox Tri-Mod Flanger to check out and demo for EffectsBay.com. Source Audio is really starting to get their name out in the guitar/bass effects world. Their Soundblox and Soundblox pro pedals are starting to find themselves on various boards and backline rigs. Artists such as Billy Sheehan, Adrian Belew, Billy Corgan, Bela Fleck just to name a few. Please check out their artist page for more info! Some serious talent there.

Okay, let’s talk about the Soundblox Tri-Mod Flanger. The Tri-Mod Flanger came from the original Hot Hand Phaser/Flanger system in a smaller system. The tri-mod flanger has 11 preset ‘effects’. The presets include:

1. Classic flanger with resonance
2. Delayed subtracted from input, producing a hollow sound
3. Multiple individually varying delay lines summed
4. High resonance, peaks only, no notches
5. Multiple delays, no resonance
6. Multiple delays, with resonance
7. Classic flanger with resonance, but with extra delay network inserted into feedback path
8. A lot of individual delays with resonance and extra delay network in feedback
9. A lot of individual delays with resonance and extra delay network in feedback
10. Classic flanger, hollow sound
11. Delayed signal only, no flanging effect. Meant for pitch modulation, such as vibrato.
- There is also a calibration setting.

My first reaction with this pedal and these pre-sets, you can achieve just about ANY flanger effect you’re looking for. The options were plentiful, and these starting points for initial effect covers just about everything a flanger is known to do. Subtle flange to crazy jet flange with huge sweeps is possible with this pedal!

There are three controls available. These control delay, depth and speed to the preset effect selected.

Delay - Adjusts the amount of time delay used to create the flange
Depth - This is actually a multi-purpose control. Primary function is to control the depth of the flange effect and controls the type of modulation used. Options include Envelope or LFO.
Speed - In envelope mode (see Depth control) it will control the attak of the envelope. In LFO it will control the oscillation.

Optionally this pedal can be used with a HotHand attachment. The HotHand is a like a tethered ring with a accelerometer in the ring. By triggering the accelerometer you will be able alter the effect from your playing hand. The Depth and Speed knobs have ‘HH’ values there. You can control the depth response via the HH and Flail/Pick controls which are part of Speed. The HotHand is sold separately.

For this demo, I again enlisted the help of Jimmy Rolle. Immediately we were both impressed with the insane amount of flange tone/control/effects that are available, and to present them all within a demo video or two is impossible. It would be easy to devote a 5 minute video of each preset effect! For this demo, we broke it down to two videos. One for ‘clean’ and one for ‘gain’ amp settings. All played with a Les Paul Elegant Custom Shop guitar into a Rivera Knucklehead 100w head through a Marshall 4×12 cabinet. Cabinet was mic’d with Shure SM57 and Fathead Ribbon Mic. Nothing else in the signal path between the guitar and the amp.

Below Jimmy is playing on Channel 2 of the Rivera Knucklehead (clean channel)

You can listen to the high quality MP3 clip via SoundCloud

Next up is the Tri-Mod Flanger on the gain side of the amp.

You can listen to the high quality MP3 clip via SoundCloud

As you can see there is a big variety of flanger/vibrato sounds that can be acquired with this pedal, and we just scratched the surface. If you’re looking for a flanger with variety and quality, then you may need to look closely at the Source Audio Soundblox Tri-Mod Flanger.

The Tri-Mod Flanger is currently available for $99 at Amazon.com, or you can find a dealer from Source Audio’s website!

If you want to learn more about what Source Audio offers, please visit them on the web, like them on Facebook and follow them on Twitter!

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Today Electro-Harmonix just put out a video of their new Neo Mistress Nano pedal. This is the classic flanger from Electro-Harmonix but in their popular small foot-print series.. nano.  The Neo also adjusts the sweep compared to the original Mistress pedal.

Here is the official description of the Electro-Harmonix Neo Mistress Nano:

The Electro-Harmonix Neo Mistress flanger pedal delivers the lush flanging Electro-Harmonix is noted for. True to the classic Mistress, the Neo’s design adjusts the harmonic sweep to present the varied tonal density that flanging brings to musical performance. Manual filter matrix also included.

The Feedback control determines how much of the processed signal is fed back to the original. Always one of the sweetest modulations, the Neo Mistress presents professional flanging at a breakthrough cost.

Features

* Classic, lush EHX flanging based on the original Mistress
* Adjusted harmonic sweep provides varied tonal density
* Filter Matrix mode freezes the sweep of the flanger for manual control
* True bypass
* Battery powered
* Optional 9V adapter available

Here is a video by EHX on the Neo Mistress Nano:

The ElectroHarmonix Neo Mistress Nano is available for $82.35 at Amazon.com

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Hello All, this is a reminder to let you know the T-Rex Twister 2 Chorus/Flanger Give Away ends tomorrow! If you want to have a chance to win, please fill out the form here. Give Away is open to international submissions. If you’re not familiar with the T-Rex Twister 2, then check out our review. Again, I would like to take a moment to thank the fine folks at T-Rex Effects for sponsoring this give away, if you get a chance check out some of their other great products at their website! Please help spread the word so we get a strong finish for this give away!

May is looking like an exciting month, I have two give aways on deck for the month, so keep your eyes peeled for them.

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After just posting my give away on the T-Rex Twister 2 Chorus/Flanger (if you don’t know about this give away – click that link and enter!), I noticed that there is a good deal on the Boss BF-3 Flanger happening on Amazon right now. Normally, the Boss BF-3 lists for $202.50, and is usually available for $129.00. But at Amazon, it’s on sale for $104.43. That is 48% off list price!

Here is the official description of the Boss BF-3:

The Boss BF-3 Flanger gives guitarists and bassists an updated version of the classic BOSS flanger with the thickest stereo flanging sounds ever. Two new modes (Ultra and Gate/Pan) create flanging with incredible depth-—plus slicer-type effects and sounds that seem to swirl around you.

The Boss BF flanger has been used quite a bit, but some feel that the newly improved BF-3 has a different tone than the older BF-2. So if you’re looking for a classic tone that was created with a older Boss Flanger, you may want to search for a good deal on a Boss BF-2 Flanger.  PedalNerd.com is a good place to find deals on vintage or discontinued pedals – as well as stellar deals on new modern pedals.

So to recap, the Boss BF-3 Flanger is available at Amazon. com for a low price of $104.43!

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