Tomorrow Never Knows
The Catalinbread Zero Point flanger has already become one of my favorite effects pedals of all time. I mean, maybe as I get used to it I'll go, "What was I thinking?" I don't think that's going to happen, though.
It's insanely subtle. If you just leave it running all the time it adds this very subtle comb filter-y flange. Which is some kind of secret truth I never knew. It's better than phasing. It's better than chorus. If you're going to have something going all the time, it's this.
Eddie Van Halen used to use an Eventide 3000 preset called, "SLUDGWIK" that was a swept comb filter. He didn't use it in a very subtle way, but I always thought it was cooler than most chorus-y kinds of sounds. This is 90's-era Van Halen, which I don't generally like, but I can appreciate what I used to call Ed's "Wall of Ed" sound from that era. Too processed, but right around F.U.C.K. he got this really huge thing going and SLUDGWIK was a part of that. BTW, I wish that preset was available on things like the H9. I even emailed Eventide customer support and I'm all, "How can I gets me some SLUDGWIK?" and they're all, "Can't Get This Stuff No More!"
This is kind of SLUDGWIK Jr., in a way. I mean, Ed used that Eventide thing as left and right channel returns with his "Tone Amp" in the center. So the intent there was a wide stereo spread of something that would set it apart from the center channel. This is something that works with a mono source. It's a very light drizzle of cheese on the guitar's sound. Clean, it's hard to tell it's even on. The white-noise-y parts of a fuzz-ed or distort-ed signal betray its presence, but even then it's very light fromage. Cheetos popcorn where you asked them to go really easy on the orange powder. Heh...
Because there's no LFO and there's no regeneration, so the over-the-top "Jet!" whooshing isn't happening. There's just an audio channel that's slightly out of sync with your dry sound.
Anyway, then when you kick the brake it retards the second channel, but even that isn't the big whoosh-y thing I expect from a flanger. Again, less prominent with the clean signal, but dirt swishes it out like "Bold As Love" or something, but it's still not like an MXR or an A/DA. It's celestial and groovy. Dig. ;-)
BTW, I don't work for those guys or get any kind of kickback for driving sales for them. I just really like this pedal. It's too freakin' light, though. I've got some double-stick gaffer's tape coming (because it can be undone without residue) so it won't slide all over the place every time I step on it.
Tomorrow Never Knows
The Catalinbread Zero Point flanger has already become one of my favorite effects pedals of all time. I mean, maybe as I get used to it I'll go, "What was I thinking?" I don't think that's going to happen, though.
It's insanely subtle. If you just leave it running all the time it adds this very subtle comb filter-y flange. Which is some kind of secret truth I never knew. It's better than phasing. It's better than chorus. If you're going to have something going all the time, it's this.
Eddie Van Halen used to use an Eventide 3000 preset called, "SLUDGWIK" that was a swept comb filter. He didn't use it in a very subtle way, but I always thought it was cooler than most chorus-y kinds of sounds. This is 90's-era Van Halen, which I don't generally like, but I can appreciate what I used to call Ed's "Wall of Ed" sound from that era. Too processed, but right around F.U.C.K. he got this really huge thing going and SLUDGWIK was a part of that. BTW, I wish that preset was available on things like the H9. I even emailed Eventide customer support and I'm all, "How can I gets me some SLUDGWIK?" and they're all, "Can't Get This Stuff No More!"
This is kind of SLUDGWIK Jr., in a way. I mean, Ed used that Eventide thing as left and right channel returns with his "Tone Amp" in the center. So the intent there was a wide stereo spread of something that would set it apart from the center channel. This is something that works with a mono source. It's a very light drizzle of cheese on the guitar's sound. Clean, it's hard to tell it's even on. The white-noise-y parts of a fuzz-ed or distort-ed signal betray its presence, but even then it's very light fromage. Cheetos popcorn where you asked them to go really easy on the orange powder. Heh...
Because there's no LFO and there's no regeneration, so the over-the-top "Jet!" whooshing isn't happening. There's just an audio channel that's slightly out of sync with your dry sound.
Anyway, then when you kick the brake it retards the second channel, but even that isn't the big whoosh-y thing I expect from a flanger. Again, less prominent with the clean signal, but dirt swishes it out like "Bold As Love" or something, but it's still not like an MXR or an A/DA. It's celestial and groovy. Dig. ;-)
BTW, I don't work for those guys or get any kind of kickback for driving sales for them. I just really like this pedal. It's too freakin' light, though. I've got some double-stick gaffer's tape coming (because it can be undone without residue) so it won't slide all over the place every time I step on it.