Andy Summers Walking on the Moon Analog Flanger / Filter Matrix Pedal by Electro-Harmonix

[@simonsays588]

Andy is 80 years old. Amazing!

[@HBSuccess]

WHOA !! Hard to believe but time keeps on ticking...ticking....ticking...

[@ronmaljak8401]

He looks 60!

[@patrickbrogan8770]

He looks way younger than 80

[@kingsecho3351]

No way he’s that old

[@kingsecho3351]

I can’t wait to buy this pedal

[@01kid01]

Andy Summers saved my life. Plutôt que de me suicider à 43 ans (après une série de grosses mésaventures puis d'une grosse dépression), j'ai appris la guitare en autodidacte en travaillant les morceaux de Police. 10 ans plus tard, je joue dans plusieurs groupes, et rien ne me donne d'avantage de plaisir de vivre que de jouer de la musique.

[@gugahhsantos]

Had to use a translator here, sorry. Man, I almost shed a tear. The Police saves lives!

[@sandrosadhukhan]

That's a great journey you had friend, I appreciate you sharing your life story with us, I'm inspired. 🙏🏼

[@F412T1]

In some moments, only art can help us. Your story is beautiful! Andy is my favorite guitarist of all time and…. I love The Police too.

[@maggieo]

The first three pedals i bought, back in 1982, were a Big Muff, a Deluxe Memory Man, and an Electric Mistress. Because I loved and still love Andy Summer's playing and sound!

[@miekgenklefin9616]

I bought this one on principle alone.

[@HenritheHorse]

Damn! What a trio of legendary pedals!

[@jeffreyhall76]

Ehx rocks! It’s the pedal manufacturers and artists we love that inspire the sounds we chase

[@patrickbrogan8770]

They make great gear. I have the bass big muff and the bass mono synth on my pedal board and I love them!

[@ogretattoo]

Love how it sounds like a combination of flange and lush chorus.

[@jamesgretsch4894]

The dude is 80 years of age and as sharp as a knife and plays just as good now as he did decades before.

[@jimearp1095]

Still my favorite electric guitarist on the planet. A few weeks ago a member of my audience commented that our band reminded him a bit of The Police in some spots. Best compliment I ever got. Well . . . except for Larry Mitchell calling me a "bad-ass" at our first meeting . . .

[@dr2675]

Andy Summers is 80! He looks and sounds great!

[@gugahhsantos]

Man, how much I love this guy. His (and eh Police's) songs with stay with me for life.

[@robtoc]

Love love love Andy's sound!

[@darrenfoleymusic3336]

Amazing and creative player with his own unique sound. Played a part in shaping my own rhythm/clean tones, and explorative style including the use of the expansive flanger/chorus and delay. HUGE never-ending beautiful chords.

[@JohnnyBeane]

Andy Summers is the man! He's been a huge influence on my playing and the way I look at the guitar and what it can do. Will definitely pick one of these up. Going to see Andy when he's in Northern California later this year.

[@zounds13]

The most fascinating commercial I've watched in a very long time. Well done.

[@evenstephen2000]

Love Andy Summers and The Police. One of the best bands EVER, in my opinion. The writing was so melodic and the band was so tight…of course Stewart Copeland = amazing. And the pedal sounds great.

[@romykucheev]

Thanks god Andy still with us , my playing was HUGELY shaped on rare Police B Sides , that tropical atmosphere, oh wow ❤

[@markhammer643]

There were 3 things that made the Electric Mistress sound as good as it did. 1) It had very little filtering on the delay signal, leading to a brighter crisp tone, which a Telecaster is going to love. 2) It used a Reticon delay chip, that could easily achieve very short delay times, for a breathier, less metallic tone. 3) A very different modulation generator circuit that yielded a more "musical" sounding sweep than the standard triangle we have seen in many other flangers. The use of a higher supply voltage probably helped, but to my view, was not as pivotal as the other three things. Reticon chips are long gone with only the odd few here and there for repairing vintage pedals. Certainly nowhere near enough for any company the size of EHX to produce a product run. The Xvive clone of the old Panasonic MN3007 bucket brigade chip is an acceptable substitute. Not absolutely identical, but there are workarounds, and EHX uses Xvive chips in their Memory Boy/Toy pedals.. At the time of the "golden age" of the EM, EHX also produce a foot controller pedal, called the "Hot Foot". It looked like an oversized wah, and used a flexible cable, coupled to the pot inside the pedal. At the other end of that flexible shaft was an adaptor that could be attached to the shaft of any pot on another pedal. Work the Hot Foot, and you could adjust a control on a pedal on the fly (I used mine to work the volume control on my compressor, allowing it to do swells and also overdrive what the compressor was feeding). The unit had some physical caveats. It had so much torque, you could easily flip the other pedal over if it wasn't heavy enough, or secured in place. As well, attaching the free end of the shaft required enough clearance that the pedal you were trying to control needed to have its controls spaced apart. There were two "killer apps" for the Hot Foot. One was attaching the cable to the delay time control of a Memory Man. This let you "bend" the pitch by quickly shortening or lengthening the delay time, to do many of the things we wouldn't be able to do until years later when the Digitech Whammy showed up. The other, which is why I went off on this tangent here in the first place, was use of the EM as a pedal-flanger when switched into the "filter matrix" mode, to achieve tailored and ultra-long sweeps, via foot control of the Range pot. At the time, it was about as close to putting your thumb on the take-up reel of a a tape machine as a person could get in a live context. I miss my Hot Foot. There are many expression pedals and input jacks for them, available these days, but the Hot Foot let you apply real-time control to things lacking electronic expression control, especially vintage pedals.

[@blackstrat7]

I’ve always found the classic and most reissued classics to still have that metallic sound. The Small Clone is one example. I miss my old green EMs as well but have held on to my big box deluxe. I wonder how close this circuit is. I suspect you’ll be tracing it on the forum lol?

[@DogAfraidOfUmbrellas]

Aside from the lack of filtering, seems like the technically poor buffered bypass also contributes to the midrange and therefore impression of the top end sparkle. If I put different buffers before my V3 Electric Mistress, the pedal sounds very different for each. More heterodyning, less clock noise, pushed with more low end, or bright with too much top end. The pedal normally has a relaxed sound with a sparkly top, which is the perfect balance.

[@markhammer643]

@@blackstrat7 The Small Clone aims for a slightly longer delay range (flanger, contrasted with chorus), and also employs a simple triangular sweep. Because longer delay means slower clock, it also means more filtering to remove that clock noise. The beauty of the EM was that it was about as direct a path through the delay chip as you could get. Indeed, compared to chorus pedals, including EHX's, about 70% of the circuitry in the pedal was allocated to the sweep generation, with a VERY sparse audio path.

[@blackstrat7]

@@markhammer643I just meant that the standard reissued big box small clone has that “metallic” sound as well. It could pass for a prominent mistress clone in a dense mix thiugh I’ve never found an mistress to be overly prominent. Just added a swirly, hollow metallic goodness. Also, I meant are you going to trace the “walking moon” pedal to see how close it is to the original. I find the current PastFx Elastic Matresse is a very flexible alternative with mix, level and treble settings. Mines still plagued by the clock noise tho depending on what’s in front of it. For some reason it only likes a klon in front of it lol. Completely kills the clock noise.

[@supernothing77]

Darn dude you know your stuff

[@godbyone]

He is a great textural player. Thanks for vid

[@EHX]

Couldn't agree more!

[@telsutton]

Andy has been an inspiration to this South Yorkshire lad since Outlandas D'Amour.... in 1998, my manager gave me a 1977 Electric Mistress as a present for me giving him the acetate of his favourite song, The Kinks' 'Big Sky'. I've used it ever since but in the last decade been looking for something to take it off the effects board... now we have it. Cheers EHX. p.s. 1996, I went as a degree exchange student to California State University Northridge, for three months, to learn Sound Recording and Guitar Improv... found out that Mr Summers was alumni of the same dept.!

[@jackgreenwood1817]

Big up South Yorkshire 🤘

[@rocktalk-commarcoandrebrio5721]

Long iive Andy Summers and Electro Harmonix!

[@doctorbarber1]

I bought a LongAmp Roxanne because I wanted this sound. I had a late 70s small box Electric Mistress that I idiotically sold, and that thing was the best sounding flanger I've ever heard. If only I'd waited a few more months for EHX to drop this one.

[@Boblobblaw88]

Funny how the Police rode in on the punk wave without actually being punk---or even youngsters for that matter. I understood it for what it was (hype), while enjoying them for what they were---great musicians who played rock, raggae, and ska w great flair and great songwriting.

[@santiagobrispalmer]

Thanks to The Police for all your music!!! You are one of my favourite bands in my life. Also nowadays...

[@JJDoole]

This man is 80! Unbelievable!

[@pb12661]

I bought one of these and can't wait to try it.

[@Thejohnnylove69]

Sound has a nice warm analog tone. Currently my MXR micro flanger is the tops till this day👍🏽 Andy summers is one of the reasons why I have 3 telecasters He’s just great 👍🏽

[@bastianbach4348]

Same here 🙃 I‘ve tried so many flangers from cheap to expensive - I always end up with the small MXR Micro Flanger 😊 Never the less I‘ll still end up buying the „Walking to the moon“ 😇

[@synthmaven]

@@bastianbach4348 U like the MXR blue rackmount but then I am more of a synth guy.. two of those on a Jupiter-6 is PURE heaven !

[@captainbackfirejr]

This is one pedal for a man. One giant leap for mankind.

[@TheoAndHisPedals]

I love that you’re doing artist signature stuff. Now reissue the Deluxe Octave Multiplexer

[@nunestunes]

Echoflanger too

[@nicksimms3771]

@@nunestunesAdrian Belew signature Echoflanger would be 🔥

[@69nukeee]

The pedal sounds absolutely fantastic, and you gotta love the story (and playing) from Andy Summers himself.Much as I truly love EHX and all of the EHX pedals I bought throughout the years, I am wondering what's different than the good, old Electric Mistress Deluxe (my favorite flanger pedal ever)?

[@michael_caz_nyc]

Love Andy Summers - phenomenal guitar player. Lets Hope this-version is an Improvement over their recent Mistress offerings.

[@cmath8577]

Nice. I have no idea what it really sounds like from this presentation but Andy will always be one of my heros for his distinctive approach to chord voicings in pop and jazz and ambient rock with Fripp

[@dr.darkroom]

Omg this is that music I've had in my head since the first time i watched this!

[@ULTIMATEPATCHES]

Can't beat that original true analog vibe!

[@guitardave]

Shame there’s no Nano version - that would’ve been a Day 1 buy for me. Is this a new pedal or a reskinned Deluxe Mistress? Hopefully someone does a comparison video of the two, and with the PastFX Elastic Mattress.

[@classicaxe1]

Hell yeah EHX and Andy ! Another killer pedal from ELECTRO HARMONIX and a added bonus ANDY SUMMERS ! You can not freaken lose ! For sure you wll not be losing tone !

[@rodrigolanceloti]

This is the man! World!

[@johnsmith-ug5tp]

One of the greats.

[@steev11]

That sounds so damn good!

[@dougiemcclure]

Gonna see Andy this fall

[@StompboxBreakdown]

Love hearing this insight into the music creation process, especially in the context of them emerging in the form of a punk band. Also, what string gauge is he running, those looked THICK

[@michaelfowler3187]

You're the man dude man. I am so excited about this pedal, the graphic and the story are what make it so memorable but I'm willing to bet it sounds lovely. I wonder if it's a pt2399 hemi with vtec grown in the south of France. They probably found like 1000 sad1024s and thought let's make a hundred ish dollar flanga! Awesome. Excited for your video of it.

[@supernothing77]

Idk but come to think of it, I don't think I've heard Andy bend a string and obviously he comes from a jazz background

[@JohnMcNicholas]

I get mine tomorrow! Can’t wait to play it.

[@michaelt_tamtam]

I love EHX pedals! You guys rock

[@xxsouthxxsidexxroyxx]

This man looks incredible for 80

[@tyremanguitars]

sounds amazing!

[@chickenmanman]

1:13 those are some of the most beautiful chords I have ever heard, is that a song? Or does anyone know the chords?

[@Ashfaq1999]

Guitar Legend 🎶

[@F412T1]

I love EHX and Andy is my favorite guitarist. This pedal is a DREAM, but EHX could make it in a smaller box!!!

[@gex581990]

What’s the difference between this and Electric Mistress Deluxe? Literally seems like a rebranded one

[@longlivebytor]

Andy's tone is what I think of when I think of "clean guitar tone."

[@snowhitesnowhite1111]

None other.🎸Congrats. 🌙🎛️ 👣🎶WGS🌎🙏🏻💚

[@russellkane9439]

I need this .

[@metalmover]

I love your flangers…yesterday, I bought an Electric Mistress…Gonna buy this one too….one for my guitar and the other will go for my bass. I’m enjoying your equipment (@ EHX) I bought the switchblade pro and lizard queen for my bass…and the flanger….I really like how you cater to the bass community as well as guitar.

[@sammyboy567890]

What's the difference between this and a regular Electric Mistress?

[@augustusbetucius2931]

One of my two favorite guitarists. One question - How is this different than the electric mistress flanger EH makes.

[@stevejhkhfda]

the music he was a part of with The Police was really special.

[@jeffball6656]

Legend! Simple as that. Such a talent. Check out his records with Robert Fripp too! Pure genius. Check out his autobiography. Such a great book.

[@robb4340]

Thanks For The Tip. Found Some Andy Summers & Robert Fripp.

[@oza8578]

I wonder how this compares with the EHX Electric Mistress Deluxe unit. How different is this one from the Deluxe?

[@timhutchinson8485]

How does this differ from the most recent Electric Mistress pedal?

[@Russell1982]

This is what I was trying to figure out too. I’m thinking it’s just a different paint scheme but the same as the currently produced version. Like their j mascis rams head big muff.

[@FunnyBecauseItsTrue]

...prob costs a little more, but you get Andy's signature on your pedal...

[@alanredversangel]

@@FunnyBecauseItsTrue Ooh we live in a cynical world. A cynical, cynical world!

[@fuzztony3940]

I wonder if this is a clone of the original EM and not the "Deluxe" version?

[@HazeAnderson]

This looks like a reskin of the "XO" Deluxe Electric Mistress Analog Flanger which is now discontinued. Not to be confused with the Stereo Electric Mistress, which is digital (I got this one).

[@ia5662]

This is the pedal I've been waiting for my whole playing life! Thanks you EHX - my only gripe is, is this any different from the Electric Mistress redo you guys did recently? Is there anything more vintage spec or special about this apart from Andy's name? We didn't get much detail on those nuances from this video, but of course, I appreciate Andy speaking on it and hearing his playing immensely.

[@daviddennard]

I’m going to assume that Andy was actually using the original Electric Mistress pedal on Police records in those days (I had the original one too and used it on records), so this pedal appears to be the old EM pedal repackaged. The newer EM pedals just don’t sound as good as the old originals (I have a new one an I’m very disappointed in it). Maybe this “Police” version is better.

[@Antonivs]

Andy used it!

[@matiasmoulin2126]

I'd be interested in that too - I've got a big box reissue - and I have to like it since I have no comparison, never played an old one...

[@mikeadams4605]

Is this a new pedal or just a current Green Deluxe Electric Mistress in new packaging?

[@terrysteward]

My adopted style is kind of cross between Andy Summers and the Edge, I use a lot of altered chords from listening to those guys, with chorus delay and compression,You kind of get keyboard pad Sounds,I cover walking on the Moon and de do do do, but I also do songs like just the Way you are by Joel and Babe by Styx,,It’s using techniques and effects to sound like a Fender Rhodes or something

[@maxallegretti]

Top Andy Summers

[@stuartcameron7590]

This pedal is a steal and sound great to boot. It's an Electric Mistress in all but name but who cares. Buy one now!

[@edgarweissflog6427]

This pedal is the game changer for playing police ???

[@F412T1]

The old “Electric Mistress” too.

[@ryanspencerlauderdale687]

I grew up with the Police’s music as a kid. They might have been the first band that really opened up my brain to a new musical world, without the obvious rock and roll guitar and amp combinations we have now.

[@waynegram8907]

They could have made this same pedal in a NANO version mini version plus not sure what is so different about this artist version series compared to the stock version?

[@phantasmagora6542]

Wait, so how is this actually different from the Deluxe Electric Mistress XO aside from the signature branding and new enclosure art?

[@HBSuccess]

I bought a used flanger (can't remember the brand... it was yellow LOL) in the early 80's just to cover some of Andy's stuff. Like Andy... broke basically. I was grossing $250-300 a week ($50/gig on average) playing bars and clubs, so even a used pedal took every penny of a night's pay, and the damned 9-volt batteries to power them took another 20% LOL. Gas, food, and often housing was out-of-pocket.... Oh yeah... strings. I changed strings every other gig - another $10/week LOL. Great times though. Then they changed the drinking age to 21 and turned every full-time club band into weekend warriors overnight .

[@castleanthrax1833]

When I heard WOTM (in this video) I was going to comment that it doesnt sound quite like the original...until I realised who was playing. I guess the reason must be that Stu and Sting aren't playing here, too.

[@Fogeyspasm]

No big Delay. You need the delay too to nail the sound.

[@Antonivs]

@@Fogeyspasm and no compressor here, too...

[@j4mbs]

For everyone asking, it is a rehoused XO, with what I’m assuming is limited edition artwork. Just like the J Mascis Big Muff. EHX said as much in a Reddit thread.

[@mykhedelic6471]

I miss The Police chemistry. Shame, Sting, you should write a bit more with these two, there's been space and success apart, time to hear your writing in that special context, again. A band is a band, as much a gift as a burden.

[@georgebarry8640]

100% agreed. The chemostry..is what makes a band. Heart lost theres when Rog,Mike and Steve left...and The Police disbanded just as they were red Hot. Its all about the chemistry.

[@easye9-21]

Im guessing this would be perfect for Gilmours Mistress sounds too?

[@sherwintavarez8539]

Small Stone next??

[@SteveJamsEcono]

Super cool that they are doing this, but the settings for these songs sound a little wonky. Almost sounds univibe-y the way he has it here.

[@C33Fernandez]

Yes yes yes!

[@davidbentick]

I’d love to see someone cover, The Spirit of Radio by Rush… with this pedal?

[@PMurray2694]

Wow, pretty impressed with the price

[@glennbarlow9620]

Does anyone know what the 3rd pedal Andy is using at 1:12 is? Thx.

[@whiskeywhiskeyromeo3730]

Oceans 11....

[@kevinsturges6957]

What’s different about it from the stock pedal? Did Andy use a modified one?

[@mattburdock1734]

Sold! ☺️

[@javiceres]

Sounds legit

[@hankventure13]

Can this do Peter Hook stuff too?

[@Elaleyelunivese]

Is the same XO REBRANDED?

[@synthmaven]

That was a Police no one ever wanted to defund !

[@kevinalexpeek4020]

Sounds like some Men At Work Flanger tones as well!

[@akbarpratama7275]

Ok.......❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@desmof4649]

Cool...

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

I always thought that was a chorus. I guess they're similar effects.

[@adamyidiaris3491]

I do believe every breath you take was chorus though not flanger. He did use chorus for a big chunk of those sounds with the Roland jc 120

[@nkogliaz]

@@adamyidiaris3491 ​ @adamyidiaris3491 EBYT was quad tracked guitars, Roland JC-120 with Chorus on full bore, EM was also used, you can pick it listening to the isolated guitar wav track (not the compressed to shit KZbin isolated track), I've been working on recreating this sound for months now, I also believe they detuned the clean guitar tracks (there were two of them) on the tape machines and put them slightly out of alignment to add more depth to the 'stereo width effect', which I feel was pull back closer into the middle of the mix than what it was originally with the JC-120 tracks hard panned left or right along with the clean tracks detuned only slightly panned off center, I'm releasing a remix of the song within the next month on my YT channel, I'm going to push a little bit more of the thicker EM sound for personal preference as I feel the record honestly would have sounded better that way (think 'Driven To Tears / Walking On The Moon / etc', Hugh Padgham who was the engineer for Ghost and Synchronicity at AIR Studio Montserrat (George Martins studio), has spoken at length also about the recording process for Synchroniticy at AIR Montserrat and there is also on article online where he talks about the entire process for the whole album along with that tune as well, but then again, who knows if he's telling every interviewer 'exactly' what happened during the sessions, I mean Andy Summers himself called the Mistress a 'Chorus' in interviews for years when it was in fact a flanger, although the stock chorus built in to the Roland JC-120 amp was just a variant of the same chorus on the Roland Juno synths, it was also released in a pedal format called the BOSS-CE1 that he also used, it's also noted that Summers had a BOSS-CE3 on his pedal board at the time of the Synchronicity tour (I have the tour VHS tape in my collection from The Show at the Omni in Atlanta), allegedly he was demoing that unit during that tour.

[@GuitarAnthony]

Sold.

[@synthmaven]

Not reading all the comments to find out if anyone else has already remarked that Andy is peddling a pedal.. hardy har-har !

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

🔝🎸🔝

[@tortillaman2491]

That's the make-my-guitar-sound-out-of-tune pedal.

[@DavidEidelberg]

Does this do chorus too?

[@EHX]

Right on the line of chorus

[@doctorfuzzzdirtbox]

Flanger can get very cose to chorus, so basically yeah

[@PaulPauliePabloPaolo]

Genius….

[@hafstrat]

Love Andy Summers and The Police. However, this flanger doesn’t sound like what I hear on police’s tracks. My Thorpy Camoflange into a Mr Black Double Chorus is the closest I’ve been able to get. He had a great live sound too. Saw them back in 1978 or 79.

[@jamesmaslin3612]

theres a video on youtube , where they get together all the vintage kit that andy used, and demo it, they get extremly close to the original sound andy had, think they actually use a vintage electric mistress flanger from about 1979 and possibly an echoplex will have to try and find the link again

[@alexlifeson8946]

I'm just over half Andy's age. And he looks younger than me.

[@damiansamb3980]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@zachariahhuntley8681]

Bro got the lays potato chips guitar tone rn but add flanger like how can you make a jc sound bad

[@bushipop9667]

Wow. It's only 129.00 US.

[@chrisgadd]

Sooo, it's just a reskinned Electric Mistress flanger then? EHX still makes the Electric Mistress...

[@PageandPlant4Life]

Same w the j mascis rams head big muff... they just slap a name on an already existing product to sell more.. I dig the pedals but not the business method

[@joseanything]

It was just discontinued.

[@allthingsclassicrock]

So this is just a modern EM and not a recreation of the old one? :/

[@R3TR0R4V3]

​@@allthingsclassicrockyes, exactly. Originals used a totally different BBD chip, which has never really been faithfully recreated.

[@allthingsclassicrock]

@@R3TR0R4V3the pastfx elastic mattress gets high praise. But there is something about those old chips in the originals. Definitely some voodoo going on that can’t be replicated with modern chips lol. I’m content with my elec-lady until the ultimate 1:1 clone comes out, if it ever does.

[@sirrealistic5625]

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