Product: Washburn A-F4 Flanger
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
06/06/2009
at
01:16am
by
equipped
Ease of Use
:
10
Very straight foward, its set up like any basic guitar pedal.
Sound Quality
:
10
I use this lovely ol Washburn A-F4 load's, mainly for proccessing pads n the odd break. Its the best sounding Flanger I have ever came across. Top sound!! Very deep soulfull flang pedal and are rare indeed.
Reliability
:
10
This lovely A-F4 was passed on to me by a friend over 14 years ago. It's still solid and never had a problem.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Have never dealt with Washburn.
Overall Rating
:
10
This again is absolutly the best soundin flanger effect I have ever had the pleasure of using, very effective and it just sound sooo dam good. Thankyou Washburn.
Product: Washburn A-F4 Flanger
Price Paid: AU 50 USED
Submitted
07/02/2007
at
08:45am
by
Chris
Ease of Use
:
9
4 knobs (Manual, Rate, Depth & Colour), a large stomp switch (hooked up to a buffered bypass) and a standard Boss style DC input jack. The Colour knob does the same job as the Resonance on a Boss BF-2.
Sound Quality
:
9
This is an analogue pedal, made some time in the 80's. Just did an A/B test with a green label MIJ Boss BF-2, and this is almost the same pedal. With all dials at 12 o'clock, the A-F4 is warmer than the BF-2 (some might say less harsh). Shift the Manual dial to around 2 o'clock and it sounds very much like the Boss equivalent.
Not too surprising, as opening the case reveals several "Japan" stamps on the pots and switch case. I can only assume this was MIJ - at the very least, the components which see the most abuse are of high quality.
Reliability
:
10
This pedal has clearly seen lots of use, but the switch works every time, the jacks are flawless and there is no noise from the pots. For something that's pushing twenty years old, that's a clean bill of health. The switch has more travel than the Boss equivalent, but you don't notice under your foot.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
No info available - bad form these days, how hard is it to scrounge up a manual and make it available as a PDF? We'll see if they respond to my emails.
Overall Rating
:
8
I don't like flanger all that much as an effect. Tool's "46 & 2" is an excellent use of it, but I prefer phasers myself. I rescued this pedal from my boss (along with some others), and have the intention of on-selling it in order to get something more useful to me.
That being said, I find this is for all intents and purposes the same as the Boss BF-2. It can do mild & subtle, or wacked out and obnoxious - try cranking the Colour dial to max! Almost worth keeping for it's value as a curio!
