FLANGER- RETRO-SONIC Flanger ... Summer Returns ??? with Andy's sounds!

 RETRO-SONIC  FLANGER 

$200.00 USD

Yes I have been here before but the tale of this pedal must be told. In 1978 Electro Harmonix brought out a Flanger. It was beyond killer and ended up on endless recordings from the get go. Even today guys like Dan from 'That Pedal Show' can spend 10 minutes without running out of another descriptor just trying to describe the sound.

When the Police hit the scene I new that Andy Summers was using the new at the time Roland Jazz Chorus stereo amp. I like many thought that those clean chorus sounds on the Police records were the Roland. Wrong!!! Everything was the sound of the E-H Flanger. The price of an original has headed to Klon-ville. A couple of stupidly overpriced poor copies have come and left.

In 2019 along came Retro-Sonic with an award winning killer clone ...as in duplicated sound!!!

A couple of reviewers did not complain but pointed out that

the EH had a teeny tiny nano bit more highs. They had to point it 

out because in their a/b test you could not hear it on-line. 

When you buy a new Reto-Sonic you get their v.2. 

So say Hi! to the highs. LOL

Cons ???
Fixed! v2 has the missing sparkle.

CONCLUSION

This is a conventional Flanger that does conventional Flanger stuff. It just does it with better tone than any other. It is only reason for me to buy one. I do not need

great revues or famous people swearing it is killer.

This is not a pedal that you turn on and say ...."It sounds great ....BUT"

There are no 'BUTS'.

A Tale of Two Flangers

In 1977 A/DA made their Flanger. It does not have the character of the EH. It was and still is all about state of the art function. It does sound good because it is analog but as clean as digital. It has a whole new set of fans since the pedal world now does great sales with players into 'Ambient' music especially with esoteric reverbs and delays. So guys into that have started to find out that many new Flangers are a rip off A/DA Flangers. They are not as good and cost even more. A great deal of new jobbies are digital so getting all the crazy esoteric stuff and staying analog is bonus. At the moment the AD/A PBF flanger is not to be found new or old anywhere. Reverb has zero.

OK ...finally ...the punch line.

A few years back I gave up on getting a E-H and Retro-Sonic did not exist. I settled on the A/DA. But the shortage of the A/DA pushed me into putting it on Reverb. Just 8 hours later it was sold. I took the money and bought the Retro-Sonic ... LOL

Yes folks ...I will have the 1954 Porsche 356 1500 Speedster ...of Flangers. LOL