Joe Perkins's video: PastFx Hot For Flanger EVH s Modulation Reimagined

PastFx in Australia have quickly risen to the top of the pile when it comes to taking extinct vintage effects and resurrecting them - both to sound vintage-correct, but also give you extra functionality and/or fix problems with the OG's. Best known for their Elastic Mattress and Chorus Ensemble (no prizes for guessing which circuits those are!), this is their take on the MXR M117 Flanger. No, it doesn't house a rare-as-anything Reticon chip - but it does run on a NOS Panasonic MN3007 BBD, which is still pretty damn posh for a production pedal in this century. Firstly - this is a prototype of the HFF. The reason for that is because I've been beyond useless and managed to sit on this thing for nearly two years since Verlie sent it over to me. Yes, I'm beyond ashamed. Yes, I should have done better. But, let's try to right my incompetence today shall we? You get the standard controls from the M117 - that's it given. But on top of that, there's a clean blend knob - letting you push it to the extremes and then dial back the mix so that the effect doesn't overwhelm you - as well as a 'Waldo' switch. Verlie told me that this isn't an EVH switch (despite being named after a character from the Hot For Teacher video... 👀) - but instead, simply adjusts the clock capacitance. The real world effect of this is to make the sound a little more pushed in the upper mids...to me, this works best into a cranked amp and gives a little more snarl and cut. A little like a popular 1980's guitarist's tone, I guess... This prototype doesn't have a couple of features that the production model has though. The one you can buy has a switch to change the nature of the feedback used by the Regen. knob, as well as a level control for both compensating for any level loss, and also pushing the effect harder into your amp - if you're into that sort of thing. Find out more about this pedal here: https://pastfx.com/index.php/effects/flangers/hot-for-flanger What do you think? A killer recreation? Or not for you? Comment below! Guitars: - Ron Kirn Barnbuster w/ Don Mare Hot Bakelites - Corsa Manalishi w/ ThroBak SLE-101 PAFs Amps: - Dr Z EZG-50 - Vajra JTM45 Amps are running into a Zilla Studio Pro 2x12 cabinet loaded with Celestion AlNiCo 100 Silver & G12M Heritage Greenback speakers. Recorded with Aston Spirit Condenser, '70s Sennheiser MD441 and sE RNR1 ribbon mics, with a Schoeps CMC6 room mic. 0:00 Intro Playing 0:56 Apologies To Verlie... 1:45 Intro 5:45 Clean Amp 13:27 Cranked Amp 17:53 Outro jp@joeperkins.co.uk Vector images by freepik.com