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Post by MartinB on Nov 22, 2020 18:13:39 GMT
Just had a little play with these units, absolutely blown away for the quality of them and the price, wish I'd tried these cheaper clones sooner as it would have saved me a lot of money down the toilet.
Vintage Delay (£25 inc P&P) It only offers 300ms of delay, so if that isn't enough for you this unit wouldn't be enough. Interestingly in one of the JHS videos Josh says that Behringer make the BBD chips that JHS and a lot of other manufacturers use.
It's a good cheap analogue delay, the repeats are dark, but not as dark as I was expecting, it's extremely similar to the Boss DM-2/3 setting that I had on the TC Electronic Alter ego x4 as I remember it. I was able to get a fairly convincing to me replica of the Planet Telex intro sound (which I believe is actually keyboard/piano?) without all the whirling bits. The sound quality is up with my old MXR Carbon copy too, just without the Mod setting and length of delay.
I think that for the price these pedals are pretty unbeatable for a bedroom wannabe like me.
Vintage Phaser (£28 inc P&P) Very smooth musical phasing up to about 2 O'clock where it starts going into the crazy phasing sounds, there is a tone switch, I'm not really sure what it does, I personally couldn't hear the difference playing at a low level through headphones using my Danelectro. I prefer the sound of this to my Biyang Phaser that I had, it also doesn't have a pronounced volume drop when you engage the circuit like the Biyang had. afaik this is an EHX Small stone clone where the Biyang was an MXR Phase 100 copy.
Looks like I'll be selling my Boss Super Octaver when I can be bothered, to get more budget pedals
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Post by blindwilly3fingers on Nov 22, 2020 19:25:14 GMT
Can you get the delay to go daft and oscillate? 🥴 That's good they are better than you expected MartinB. 👍 I kept looking at the behringer blues overdrive and vintage overdrive pedals. I probably should have gone for those and saved myself a few quid. I never seem to see many bad reviews of behringer pedals. I'm never sure if I like a phaser sound? It's bit of an acquired taste. 🤔
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Post by MartinB on Nov 22, 2020 19:40:02 GMT
I haven't tried to make it self oscillate yet, but the MXR and TC Electronic units could. Phaser is a bit of an acquired taste, I personally like the low rate settings the most, sounds quite good on clean or distorted parts imo, I personally prefer it to Chorus or Flanger. But I might pick up a budget Chorus or Flanger unit now. I don't know.
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Post by blindwilly3fingers on Nov 22, 2020 19:57:34 GMT
What I probably should have said MartinB is I don't really know how to use a phaser or flanger properly, or what other effects they work best with. I have a multi modulation pedal with flangers, phaser etc but end up using one of the choruses or the univibe settings. 🥴
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Post by MartinB on Nov 22, 2020 21:11:49 GMT
Hmmm,
a song I always associate with Phaser is Rocket by The Smashing Pumpkins
It's quite subtle on the intro guitars
I'd go to the Pumpkins again for Flanger with the track Love
I think they're effects that work well on riffs, arpeggios or chordal work.
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Post by Djangle on Nov 23, 2020 12:06:53 GMT
Probably more appropriate here MartinB
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2020 17:17:42 GMT
Totally agree on the Behringer phaser! It sounds EXACTLY like the old Small Stone I used to have. I use it all the time on my synths for that Jean-Michel Jarre space sweep Edit: oh, and its maximum rate is SO supersonic fast you can even use the pedal as a lo-fi ringmodulator!!
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Post by MartinB on Nov 24, 2020 10:14:39 GMT
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Post by blindwilly3fingers on Nov 24, 2020 15:46:53 GMT
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