Vintage MXR M-117 Flanger Demo

[@claudiocruzat4768]

this flanger is the best ever built. and everyting you play osunds eerie..in the friday 13 th franchise they use a lot of these flanging effects...i love it. sh shh ..ah ah hh jajaj cheers to everyone around!

[@RodneyWallaceDynamoC]

I was looking for help in achieving Randy rhoads' tone on his live rig, I watched "Believer" live and a soundcheck in Texas. His guitar sounds so huge! But without giving "anything away", the effects are so subtle, I could not tell what he was using. Thanks to a friend of mine that shed some light on the matter, he showed me this video and I can't believe, I would never guess! Flanger! Holy smokes, sounds great! Thanks for the video

[@shamandroid5392]

When you started playing Floods I knew I had to slap that like button! Great sounding flanger.

[@teacher5376]

Oversized, upsi zes , volumes sound super , like rockets, jet engines. Powerful

[@reverbchorusdelay]

Thanks for actually showing this pedal properly instead of doing boring jet plane stuff

[@matheus.roling]

Fantastic Floods tone!

[@samuraisaint2360]

That floods solo had me at Aw!!!!

[@Diggerdog2nd]

The best Flanger ever & I own several classic brands. If it was good enough for Eddie VH & Randy Rhoads that's saying a lot.

[@anthonypalermo5515]

that was a great demo.went through several before I found some one who could actually play the instrument.hope you have more of these!

[@javiceres]

That unit sounds stellar

[@johnward3874]

This is a great reference video. I fully understand it now. Sometimes my sweep freezes on my unit.

[@lushkordz6643]

I generally dont like that much Flanger but that one is just killer ...so mellow N smooth... very good with a overdrive pedal

[@rorysullivan5694]

I can't hear a flange and not think of John Mcgeoch. Listen to the album Juju by Siouxsie and the Banshees. I want a vintage flanger to recreate the sound that I love

[@grahambennett]

Rory Sullivan and this is what he used

[@spookybaba]

Kaleidoscope was more flanger heavy, than Juju.

[@Mark-ro1yg]

Very useful demo. Thanks!

[@samusofthe9th789]

I have one of these. It's so old it has its own power supply!

[@pensive_]

Great Demo.

[@cerclesvicieux]

I have this flanger, or at least the green one. I was told it has been discontinued, sadly, like a few other MXR pedals I would like to have. I just wanted to say this is not only a great demo, but a great tutorial on the pedal. In fact, I use this video as a go-to tutorial for my own flanger. Thank you so much for you time.

[@mulfss]

Green one?

[@stringbender11672]

Reticon 1024A chip is what makes these elite flangers

[@cobowe]

Reticon Flangers and Doublers are the best

[@benjaminwoodrowmusic6070]

Been trying to get the hear about it later sound on my boss bf2... Just doesn't come close!

[@deancramer]

Excellent video!

[@alnjgove8uifjbkelbfg]

This demo has inspired me to buy another vintage mxr as I fried my first one. Thank you for doing this pedal justice.

[@markygmusic]

SecularUnderpants You're welcome. How'd you fry your pedal?

[@alnjgove8uifjbkelbfg]

I used a crappy voltage converter that was more suited for something like a hair dryer and after a few uses the pedal died. However I have a proper converter now and the pedal sounds great.

[@ImpostorModanica]

SecularUnderpants What spec is your new converter?

[@alnjgove8uifjbkelbfg]

www.maplin.co.uk/p/maplin-230v-to-110v-300w-voltage-converter-vr05f This is it.

[@ImpostorModanica]

300W? Why so strong?

[@Bigsbeee]

Absolutely superb..very helpful. Thank You

[@Ry4nSleeps]

7:40 - yeah we sure do! Probs the reason most of us are here!

[@Mr.Steve-O]

thanks for posting, this pedal spunds amazing !!

[@benjaminwoodrowmusic6070]

Eddie definitely tweaked his normal setting on hear about it later. Sounds much closer when you changed it a little bit. Eddie said he always used the same settings but I think he might have been lying about that one! It definitely has a different sweep on the distorted chords section it doesn't seem to do that warble at the bottom of the sweep which his standard setting gets.

[@benjaminwoodrowmusic6070]

I have the new version and have trouble getting that sound. I'm wondering if the resonance on the vintage one was less extreme when it's on full

[@CaevanOShite]

What, no variac? ;) :D Just kiddin'! Nice demo of the original vintage MXR-117, thanks! Some of the classic examples played may have originally been recorded with a phaser, and not a flanger, but then again, sometimes it's hard to tell! Sounds great.

[@stringbender11672]

Great playing!!!

[@javiceres]

My God, really sounds sweet.

[@DamnDealDone]

I had mine modded for true bypass and had a power jack fitted.

[@massimosoddu8683]

wow thank ou master a monster of set up.M compliments and thanl you for this video

[@CoreyHamill]

Great demo, thanks :)

[@spookybaba]

What guitar and pick ups do you have? You have a very full bodied sounding guitar, clean. I like it.

[@Nirond]

thank you for the awesome demonstration ! i don't have extra money but definitely i ll get one somehow lol :)

[@metalhead3ecr]

your unit is so quiet! ive got a vintage one too but there is significantly more noise.

[@mkii1964]

Killer!

[@HIGHHOPES]

Great demonstration, what is the riff at 2:29?

[@markygmusic]

That's "Run To You" by Bryan Adams.

[@HIGHHOPES]

markygmusic thank you!

[@4131955]

Great pedal, I own one as well. I purchased it back in the late 70's. Just brought it back out again. Question Mark, what kind of distortion pedal are you using? Thanks

[@markygmusic]

This is just the built-in distortion in the amplifier, a Peavey Envoy 110.

[@nunoharris]

Hi . So this pedal can simulate the chorus and phaser sounds using the regen ? Thanks

[@mikkywhalan]

You can get similar to a chorus, though it won’t be a true chorus sound. My settings are Manual: 8:30 Width: 8:30 Speed: 10:30-1:00 Regen: Off

[@doublebakker1]

Fantastic demo, thank you! What was the overdrive (pedal?) you kicked on there? Great tone and playing!

[@markygmusic]

Thank you! It's the built-in overdrive on my 3rd gen Peavey 110 amplifier (or whatever the last generation to be made in the USA was.) Would highly suggest the amp.

[@VioletDeliriums]

Interesting you started with the Pink Floyd stuff considering that David Gilmour used an Electric Mistress. I happen to have a new MXR Micro Flanger (the two knob one) and a Hartman Flanger (Electric Mistress copy) on my current pedal board and they both sound great, but the MXR sounds has a bit more bottom end, so these people that think that the Electric Mistress is the only way to do Gilmour are wrong, and you demonstrate that here. I am really looking for a sound that John McGeoch made in Siouxsie and the Banshees "Voodoo Dolly" that I believe he used an MXR Flanger to make, maybe with something else. I didn't hear it your video, but nevertheless it is a decent demo of the pedal. Thanks.

[@nkmcfrln]

Violet Deliriums The only effect John McGeoch used was the M117.

[@VioletDeliriums]

nkmcfrln I ma not sure that is true. I do know that he loved it.

[@nkmcfrln]

Violet Deliriums Yes, this is what I had read and it's wrong even as far as The Banshees; tonetribune.com/2012/09/25/mxr-m117-flanger-and-john-mcgeoch/ I just took a glance at this; www.guitargeek.com/chat/complete-rig-27/siouxsie-banshees-14380/ Right after I watched this video I bought a Deluxe Electric Mistress from Amazon - the last one. I listened to Rush at Pink Pop 1979, read one comment from somebody who bought an XO and that was it.

[@9graff9]

What's the difference with the blue face mxr m117?

[@cobowe]

Tone quality and thickness

[@johnadams9044]

Very helpful demonstration of the MXR M-117R Flanger.

[@mkii1964]

What settings you use on the atomic punk thing?

[@michaelponce7326]

Start at the left, turn first 3 knobs to 11 o'clock the the last knob on the right turn wide open

[@samjacobs967]

It’s a phaser

[@mkii1964]

@@samjacobs967 Atomic Punk - Eddie kicks on the flanger at 1:27 right before the solo......