Jumping on brightly coloured metal boxes is good work if you can get paid for it, I don?t I do it for fun.
However there comes a time in every electrical guitarists life when he needs to make funny noises out of his guitar, well I have this need anyway. Most people start off with a distortion pedal as I did but after a while you need more effects and more and more and more, one effects pedal is never enough (insert sinister laughing here).
I always wanted a flanger partly because of its slightly rude name but mainly because of my desire to go all heavy psychedelic space rock on your ass. The flanger is the pedal for this job. Ok so what is it?
The flanger rather obviously produces a sound effect. In the good olde days the effect was obtained by playing back two reel-to-reel recorders containing the same material, and placing ...
Advantages: Good quality, unusual sounds, reliability Disadvantages: May not have a very wide appeal
Yes it’s yet another review by me of a Boss effects pedal!! If you found this helpful perhaps you may like to read my other pedal reviews!
This review is of the Boss BF-2 Flanger pedal. Of all the Boss pedals I have this is probably the most idiosyncratic in terms of the effects it can produce.
The Flanger is a frequency modulation and phase shifting effect. It is a bit hard to describe exactly how it sounds, but if you have watched such science fiction favourites as “Doctor Who” or “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”, I guarantee you will have heard the Flanger effect in operation. It was a particular favourite of sound effect makers in the 70’s and 80’s as it could be set up to produce all sorts of weird, spacey type effects!
I’ve had his pedal for a long time. I purchased it ...
richard_richard 06.01.2004
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Boss Flanger BF 2
Flanger: Atom Heart (guitar, Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards, vibraphone, samples); Burnt Friedman (drums, percussion, samples). Recorded at Mira Music, Santiano, Chile in 1997. Numerous are the visions of where electronic music and jazz will ultimately meet, but few producers can rival the sophisticated interface blueprinted by Atom Heart and Burnt Friedman. Individually, each has spent years mapping possible paths for the future sound of jazz. Working together as Flanger, each doubling on live instruments and sampler, these two multi-talented draftsmen have finally perfected the template. As TEMPLATES opens, a books-on-tape voice zips through a catalog of stylistic signifiers. Flanger selects its palette from this curious sound-bite/byte manifest--which includes such dubious entries as "sports," "comedy animation," "body heat," and "commercial nostalgia"--and leaps straight into the startling fusion of "Music to Begin With." Realizing the next step beyond Hancock's SEXTANT and HEADHUNTERS, Flanger's digitally precise edits splice Atom Heart's piquant Latin-beat instrumentation and Friedman's spry synthesized/natural drumming with icy glitches and incursive samples. In spite of the extensive digital tampering, TEMPLATES swings like crazy. The processing plays receptive third-person in Flanger's hot trio, feeding off Atom Heart's phenomenally funky basslines, vibes, and Rhodes on "Quicksilver Loom" and "Lata" and complementing Friedman's detailed trap-work with intriguing, pixel-popping grain throughout "Short Note With a Few," "Studio Tan," and the invigorating Martian-dub skank of "Full On Scientist."
Album Reviews
The Wire (1/00, p.67) - Included in Wire Magazine's "50 Records Of The Year ['99]" Alternative Press (10/99, p.89) - 4 out of 5 - "...futuristic acid jazz...this album truly disorients and tweaks the genre into a brave new sonic world....Guaranteed to confound even the most agile dancers, TEMPLATES offers more surpirses...than most artists can muster in a career."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Music To Begin With
2.
Options In The Fire
3.
Endless Summer
4.
Short Note With A Few
5.
Studio Tan
6.
Full On Scientist
7.
Lata
8.
Quicksilver Loom
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