Phaser or flanger?

NotMe · 03-01-2005 1:17am #1

Can someone listen to this clip and tell me if the effect on the guitar is a phaser or a flanger? I think it's a flanger but I can't really tell the difference. Thanks.

Giblet · 03-01-2005 1:45am

Phaser.

david · 03-01-2005 11:50am

No way is that a phaser. Definitely a flanger

Giblet · 03-01-2005 12:33pm

Listen to the noise 4-5 secs in. Thats what any phasers I use do.

D!ve^Bomb! · 03-01-2005 1:02pm

do ya have to sign up to listen to this or somethin? cos i click on it and i go straight to the home page?

Doctor J · 03-01-2005 1:05pm

Try right click and save target as

D!ve^Bomb! · 03-01-2005 1:14pm

can't do that, me be in work!! grrr:mad:

david · 03-01-2005 1:29pm

that sounds like a flanger still. I use a small stone and its nothing like it.

Oeneus · 03-01-2005 3:04pm

Are you lot freakin' daffy? It's blatently a phaser pure and simple.

sound_wave · 03-01-2005 3:27pm

phaser! Flange woundnt have that almost digital sound to it!

NotMe · 03-01-2005 3:30pm

D!ve^Bomb! wrote:

can't do that, me be in work!! grrr:mad:

Doesn't seem to work when I link directly try going here and click on the link:
http://razoredge.freefronthost.com/

I've tried playing this with my ME-50 and I think the flanger setting sounds closer. What is the difference anyway they're both a variation in pitch right? *goes to google*

D!ve^Bomb! · 03-01-2005 3:52pm

cool.. yeah it definitely doesn't sound like flange anyway.. don't worry about what it is tho,, i think the majority of people think its a phaser, but if you get the same kind of sound with flange then leave it at that.. there's one thing every musician must know..

if it sounds right then by golly, it is right!!

NotMe · 03-01-2005 4:02pm

Well after reading this:
http://www.harmony-central.com/Effects/Articles/Flanging/
and this:
http://www.harmony-central.com/Effects/Articles/Phase_Shifting/

and listening to samples from here:
http://www.modezero.com/gallery2.htm

I still think it's a flanger.
Although flanging is just one particular type of phasing so they would sound similar.

John · 03-01-2005 5:38pm

Can't get it to download by either clicking on it or trying to save target as.

SirLemonhead · 03-01-2005 9:47pm

Flanger

NotMe · 03-01-2005 10:00pm

I recorded myself playing with both phaser and flanger and I'm (pretty much

) convinced it's flanger. It sounds more hollow and metallic than phaser.
http://razoredge.freefronthost.com/

ferdi · 03-01-2005 10:46pm

phaser, no question.

david · 04-01-2005 12:01am

my phaser will become redundant if it ever sounds like that! Flanger all the way!

Oeneus · 04-01-2005 12:06am

Oh for fookseek! It's a PHASER! But if you want to call a phaser a flanger, go wild!

John · 04-01-2005 12:37am

Sounds like a flanger with the rate turned down low. I use a Boss BF-3 flanger and I can make something that sounds very close to that with the rate and manual turned down low and putting up the resonance knob.

D!ve^Bomb! · 04-01-2005 12:42am

as i said earlier people.. if it sounds right then it is right.. it doesn't matter what it says on the pedal!

NotMe · 04-01-2005 12:50am

D!ve^Bomb! wrote:

as i said earlier people.. if it sounds right then it is right.. it doesn't matter what it says on the pedal!

Well I was trying to play the song and I can't get it to sound absolutely right but it would help if I knew that I was using the right effect.

I do agree though, if it sounds right it is right. And it appears that a lot of people can't tell the difference between phaser and flanger anyway.

D!ve^Bomb! · 04-01-2005 12:53am

well unless the guy playing the original song is using the same amp and guitar as you, and actually recorded it in your bedroom(or wherever you play), then i doubt you'll get it sounding exactly the same:D

Dave · 04-01-2005 1:29am

I can see why people would think it's a flanger, but it's not.

Peewee_lane · 05-01-2005 12:37am

An overdriven phaser sounds more like a jet,and an overdriven flanger sounds more like a flying saucer.With that in mind Id go with the phaser but if youve only got a flanger that'll do.

Karac / www.Stoneoceanmusic.com

NotMe · 05-01-2005 3:08am

How do you know what a flying saucer sounds like?

John · 05-01-2005 3:12am

NotMe wrote:

How do you know what a flying saucer sounds like?

I presume a typical flying saucer movie sound from old movies.

Turn the rate knob down on a flanger for the jet plane sound.

Phaser or flanger?

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