Any bass flangers or bass phasers available?

[LL1]

I was looking for whats available for bass as far as flanger(prefered) or phaser.

I remember having an old dod? Bass Flanger back in the day that sounded good with bass. I currently have a Pigtronix , and dont like it with bass, plus its huge.

Small footprint, true bypass, and 9vdc would be good to. Any suggestions?

[TedintheShed]

Yes- Boss made the bass specific BF-2B:
http://bossarea.com/images/BF2B.jpg

They are discontinued and relatively inexpensive.

Currently they make the BF-3:

http://bossarea.com/images/BF3.jpg

Note the bass input.

Personally, I like the Japanese made BF-2's. I don't think any better flanger can be used on a bass. The "shimmer" effect seems to have much more intense dynamic on the higher frequencies, while maintaining a great low end.

http://bossarea.com/images/BF2.jpg



I was looking for whats available for bass as far as flanger(prefered) or phaser.

I remember having an old dod? Bass Flanger back in the day that sounded good with bass. I currently have a Pigtronix , and dont like it with bass, plus its huge.

Small footprint, true bypass, and 9vdc would be good to. Any suggestions?

[LL1]

Thanks Ted, much appreciated, I might have to check out that BF-2B

Anyone know of any others?

[John Phillips]

Yes- Boss made the bass specific BF-2B:

They are discontinued and relatively inexpensive.

Currently they make the BF-3:

Note the bass input.

Personally, I like the Japanese made BF-2's. I don't think any better flanger can be used on a bass. The "shimmer" effect seems to have much more intense dynamic on the higher frequencies, while maintaining a great low end.+1. The BF-2 is the best bass flanger that they've made, IMO - better than the BF-2B (which is a bit bland and doesn't have the character of the BF-2), and better for bass than for guitar too... the best one for guitar is the HF-2 Hi Band Flanger.

Even the Taiwan-made version of the BF-2 is fine, really.

Despite its bass input, I hated the BF-3 - it's digital, and sounds it.

[bbocaner]

EBS UniChorus

[eBay]

I had a TC Electronics Bass/Keyboard Phaser at one time. I liked it a lot though I couldn't seem to find a use for it much. The TC stuff was very transparent and had a lot of usable tone. Oddly enough, I never felt the need for much in the way of effects for bass. Do you have have a particular part worked out that needs it?

[stingray666]

I have an early 80's Ibanez PT-9 phaser and it's awesome. Versatile, 9not too expensive and it doesn't kill your tone when you stomp it.

[LL1]

Thanks for all the suggestions. The TC and Boss sounds like they might be worth trying.

Well as far as its use, I dont have any other modulation going on.
Ive found it to work nice in transitions, fills a huge space, without playing alot of notes. We do alot of jam orientied music, and its currently a trio, so at certain times I like to have some nice background ambience to add to the bass.. I remember that the flanger could be kinda funky too.

Anyone try the MIJ Arion Bass Flanger?

[jay42]

I have a TC SCF which sounds great with bass. It's in a wider box, buffers instead of bypass, and runs on AC. That doesn't meet your criteria very well, however, it's very transparent and sounds killer with a slow flange. Also, it can add 15dB of gain.

[high mileage]

The EBS stuff is great but it's hard to find in person. I use a Yamaha Magic Stomp only as a flanger and it sounds good (not the holy grail) and a long time ago I had an EHX Polychorus which was great. Neither is close to small footprint, true bypass (not positive on the EHX) or 9vDC though.

[LL1]

well I picked up a MIJ BF-2, they are fairly inexpensive and plenty of them for sale. Its pretty much what i was looking for although Im still keeping an eye out for some others. I havent seen many of the others mentioned for sale used.
Any other suggestions? Maybe some more phasors to try?

[pedalhead]

i love my evh phase 90 for bass. sounds awesome on the script mode!