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A New Flanger That Stands Up To The EHX Electric Mistress? That Pedal Show
Published on Apr 13, 2018
Duration:
0:52:53
In this video Dan is taking a stroll down flanger boulevard. He has two favourite pedals in the world: one is his original Boss CE-1 Chorus; the other is his 1977 Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress. But the ol’ girl is getting too precious and delicate to schlep to gigs, meaning he’s had to search for a younger model. Many a pretty pretender has come and gone but nothing has really stood up to his original Mistress in terms of sound or feel.
However, just when he thought it was never going to happen, he stumbled on a pedal that he thinks does the job. He’s already started using it, but just to make sure, we thought we’d put it up against the contenders to date and get a listen.
So why aren’t there more flangers in this video? According to Dan, the Electric Mistress is a very specific thing; quite different from the likes of the Boss BF-2, for example. Yes, there are myriad flangers available from almost every brand, but these are the ones he chose; these are they on which we shall verily chew.
Please enjoy the video…
Pedals in this episode…
• TheGigRig Three2One
http://bit.ly/2fW8XJP
• D’Addario Pedal Tuner
UK & Europe: http://bit.ly/2tIN4lD
USA: https://bit.ly/3IRrhPE
Australia: http://bit.ly/2tfHqHN
• Vintage MXR Dyna Comp – no longer available new, so try these…
UK & Europe: http://bit.ly/2qgWgOA
USA: https://bit.ly/3nWOAPC
• JHS Muffuletta
UK & Europe: http://bit.ly/2mdbjaZ
USA: http://bit.ly/2RXmfYu
Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK1BLH-KkT0
• T-Rex Mudhoney The Yellow One – Danish Collection
UK & Europe: http://bit.ly/2H8BpH2
USA: https://imp.i114863.net/oMN1Y
• Vintage Electro-Harmonix Electric Mistress – no longer made, new version is
UK & Europe: http://bit.ly/2JxuLZk
USA: https://bit.ly/30PDOSO
• Mooer Elec Lady
UK & Europe: http://bit.ly/2g7sSnk
• Hartman Analog Flanger – no longer made
• Longamp Roxanne
https://en-gb.facebook.com/longamp/
• TheGigRig G2
https://www.thegigrig.com/g2
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Interesting bits and go-to sections…
- Intro playing: 00:00
- Dan loves the Mistress… but the time has come: 1:16
- Today’s amps: 3:05
- What the flip is clock noise? 3:36 & 6:05
- Hang on, Gilmour and Summers? 4:38
- What do the ‘range’ and ‘color’ do? 8:39
- What does the switch do? 12:11
- Flanger or phaser – eh? 14:08
- Mooer Elec Lady: 17:35
- Hartman Analog Flanger: 19:00
- JEM! 21:24
- Longamp Roxanne: 23:50
- The IKEA tangent: 27:30
- But the knobs don’t start from O! 3-:40
- Duesenberg Julia guitar: 36:07
- Finally some clean sounds! 37:00
- Let’s boost the Mistress output: 40:30
- Flanger before or after overdrive? 43:52 (45:30)
- How does it differ from something like a Boss BF-2? (49:22)
- All on?!? 51:40
Amps in this episode
• Marshall 1987x head with 1960A cabinet and Celestion G12M Greenback speakers
UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/31eVWmc
USA That Pedal Shop: https://bit.ly/3v3Xazc
• Fender Super Reverb with Jensen P10R speakers
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