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circuit board with top-of-the-line construction techniques, along with quality carbon
comp resistors and metal film caps. This
should last a lifetime, unless you drop it
off a building.
The unit has three knobs (Speed, Depth,
Color), and a flange/filter switch, allowing
you to stop the internal sweep generator and fix the pedal at any point in the
sweep. The unit produced extremely clear,
transparent flanging effects. Increasing
the rate with the Depth down and a bit of
Color gave a nice Leslie-type effect. With
the Speed on a lower setting, I was able
to get that smokey, mysterious flanging
tone of the seventies. The Speed control
has a very wide range, from super slow
to a faster rate than many flangers. The
Color knob is basically a regeneration control. At its maximum setting, it yielded the
expected robotic sounds, but because of
the impeccable quality of the unit I could
not get a very good “And the Cradle Will
Rock” tone—just not enough noise in the
unit to do that well. It doesn’t sound like
an MXR, but it’s not intended to. This is
an extremely pleasing, and very musical
sounding flanger. – KR
Buy if … you’re looking for clear, spar-
kling flange tones.
Skip if … you’re looking for more noise-
based effects.
Rating...
3. 5
MSRP $245
Hartman Electronics
hartmanelectronicstore.com
Compressor
Visual Sound V2 Comp 66
Since its introduction in 1999, fans of
Visual Sound’s Route 66 stomp box have
been requesting the compressor chan-
nel as a single pedal. They will cheer
the release of Comp 66 as it enters the
increasingly crowded field of compressor
stompboxes.
