Buy Electro-Harmonix Flanger Hoax PedalElectro-Harmonix Flanger Hoax Pedal Product Description:
- Ethereal flange and phase effects, great for guitar, bass, and keyboards
- Feedback from wet to swept and bypass Direct, blended, and effect outputs Blend control 18DC-500 18v power supply included
Product Description
Incredible? The most unique modulation pedal ever designed. Performance controls and parameter interaction allow you to create new over-the-top sounds. Ignite frequency collisions that range from beautiful shimmers to war of the worlds assaults - flanging is just one of the many possibilities, limited only by your imagination. The Hoax is the pedal you've dreamed about but never knew existed.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Amazing & creative pedal from EHX
By Mark Showalter
This pedal, which I have had for about 2 months now, is amazing. It's also frustrating & hard to figure out & deceptive & unpredictable...... kind of like women but we're still interested in them, right? I do a lot of electronic music, like space music, & this gadget fits in well. However, I can still use it for my other music, kind of in the vein of Pink Floyd, The Beatles, as well. If you're looking for something in a flanger that you will probably never completely exhaust all the possibilities, this is the pedal for you & it's why I chose it. If you're looking for a more classic sound, the Electric Mistress would be a better choice. I'm going to get one soon so that I don't have to use my FH for that sound since I find it hard to pin down so far, having only had the pedal for a couple of months. Also, the FH isn't a set it & leave it kind of pedal, fiddling with it is half, or most of the fun. Kind of like women now that I think about it.This is several months later:This pedal is still a bear to figure out & I often just have to give trying to get the sound I want or think I want. However, when I do find something useful it's beyond amazing & inspiring. You have to be prepared to work like hell to get this pedal to deliver & don't even think about ever completely understanding what it can or will do. The slightest touch can set this thing off into heavenly bliss or hellish fits............................ still kind of like women...........
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Cool and fun effect, but very noisy hiss
By Matt G.
Pros: The Flanger Hoax is an amazingly cool delayed phaser/flanger effect that's really fun to play around with and has a plethora of awesome tones (I'm not going to try and describe all the weird, funky, spacy effects you can get out of here -- I'd recommend checking out a Youtube vid or two to get a better idea). With 9 knobs and 4 toggle switches, there is a LOT to play around with on this stompbox. There are enough different settings and sounds you can coax out of this pedal to keep you occupied for quite awhile, which really adds to its inherent value, in my opinion. However, it also means that this pedal does have a steeper learning curve than most one- to three-knobbers, so keep that in mind. If you've messed around with a modulation pedals, you'll find yourself in pretty familiar territory, but it is ill-advised to pick this pedal up the afternoon of a gig and expect to get it all squared away in an hour or two. You're going to have to pay your dues to play the blues on this pedal.Cons: Unfortunately, your dues don't end there. Immediately after plugging this effect in and cranking up my amp, the FH starting hissing something fierce. I'm not talking sweep either, I mean a hiss. A loud, constant, obnoxious, un-changing hiss. I actually had to turn it off and put it down a couple hours after getting the pedal because it was giving me a headache listening to the constant hiss. I know EHX's mantra of "pedals are meant to be noisy," or whatever, and I can dig that an off-the-wall phaser will have a little noise, but when the hiss renders the pedal nigh unusable, that's not a mantra as much as a cop-out. I'd be interested to know if that hiss was the result of not wanting to limit the pedal's potential to rock or of just using cheap, crap parts to keep production costs down and profits high.The documentation/instructions that come with the pedal are woefully insufficient and EHX must assume that you have a degree in electrical engineering, throwing around a lot of technical terms and even some schematics. On the other hand, consider how much time you've actually spent looking at directions of other pedals you've purchased vs. just plugging it in and twisting some knobs around. Most of us hardly look at the instructions, but on a pedal this complex with as many knobs and widgets, a little reference guide would've been appreciated.Conclusion: The Flanger Hoax is great at what it was designed to do and it's an absolute tragedy that it's nearly prohibitively noisy. If not for the hiss, this little space-case would be a 5-star review. I'm going to keep experimenting with limiting the hiss and I'll try it on some different amps to see if it just doesn't get along with my Vox AC30. If I can't get it squared away, I'll be returning it... but I'll be sad while doing it.
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