Product: Aria FL-10 Dual Stage Flanger
Price Paid: 45 (Canadian) used
Submitted
10/27/2004
at
11:48pm
by
Larry David
Ease of Use
:
8
Easy to figure out, but hard to get to what you want. The second stage is a a really cool idea, but hard to use because you can not turn the pedal off with the dual stage activated. It just switches between the two flanger effects.
Sound Quality
:
8
If you turn the feedback on fully, you get a cool self-oscillating sound. It sounds really cool and/or crazy with:
FL-10 --> Tremolo --> Delay
With the FL-10 on full feedback, tremolo at a good speed with the flanger's rate, and the delay on a low feedback with a matching rate.
As for flanger's go, this thing is . . . weird, crappy, and cool.
I really like using the pedal with full feedback for like 1 or 2 bars of a song to make a ..siren.. type sound. Not really a siren, but something weird like that. If you can find this pedal, or any other old aria pedals, at a reasonable price, buy it.
Reliability
:
9
Seems to be built very well. It is at least 20 years old, and well used. I don't know if this is how it sounded like new, but it works for me.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Overall Rating
:
8
The only other flanger I have used was a Boss BF-2. I sold it once I got this one. The BF-3 is really nice though, but the FL-10 is an instrument on its own. You can turn up the feedback and play with the knobs all night getting cool sounds, or you can just let it self-oscillate and annoy the people upstairs.
