gilmourish | 5 years ago

Retro-Sonic Flanger review

Signal chain:
guitar - DryBell Unit 67 compressor - EHX Green Russian - RetroSonic Flanger - TC Electronic Flashback - clean amp

Guitar: Fender Stratocaster with D Allen Voodoo 69 neck and middle and S Duncan SSL5 pickups.
Amp - Reeves Custom 50, Laney LT212 cabinet with Celestion V30 speakers
Amp settings: linked input, normal volume 1:00, bright volume 11:00, bass 12:00, treble 9:00, mids 1:00, presence 12:00
Mic - Sennheiser e906 mic

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The Electric Mistress flanger has always been one of my favourite pedals. It’s unique tone and character is easily recognisable and it has defined many guitarist’s tones. Retro Sonic just recently released the Flanger. Here’s my review.

I got a late 90s Deluxe Electric Mistress just about when it was released and it’s been on my stage and recording board ever since. It’s featured on my albums and it’s the one pedal I simply can’t live without.

Obviously, the inspiration was David Gilmour and his late 70s and early 80s tones but for me, the Electric Mistress has become my tone and a pedal that define my sounds.

The Electric Mistress hit the market in 1976. It never got as iconic as the MXR flanger or some of the others and part of the reason might have been the fact that it had a noticeable volume drop and a lot of noise. There has been some clone during the last decade or so. Some better than others.

Retro Sonic’s Flanger is a take on the very early 18V powered Electric Mistress. This is the same model that David Gilmour used on the Animals tour, his 78 solo album, The Wall, Final Cut and last at the recent Rattle That Lock tour, where the Mistress made a triumphant return on Comfortably Numb.

The Flanger has the familiar controls for range, rate and colour as well as the filter matrix switch, allowing the flange or sweep to be freezed. The unique feature is a volume control that tackles the volume drop issue and even allowing a bit of boost.

The Flanger can be powered on 12V or 18V. The difference is minimal although the 18V has a tad more headroom.

Another unique feature is the fact that the Flanger is very quiet.

Read the full review here
http://www.gilmourish.com/?p=8198