Yamaha FL-01

So easy. As above 4 knobs and one foot switch.

It sounds great, all this 'boutique' rubbish can walk and come back in 18 years time!

This thing is like a tank and although requires a specific pedal board/ hub to power through the unusual connector at the top a 1 spot 3.5mm 9 volt battery converter will do it.

I use at every gig i do with no back up, and it rocks.

These guys probably can't remember making this stuff.

Easy, but there are four knobs, and you can get a wide variety of sounds so you need to play around to discover the possibilities. One bad thing about the pedal is that there is no DC adaptor input. You either have to use a 9V battery (which seems to last a long time) or use one of those 9v adaptor clips that merges to a Boss-style DC input and power it that way.

Wow, this thing rocks. I'm not an analog snob, but this thing lives up to everything that people say is good about analog. It sounds juicy and complex. It can be set to be subtle or radical, and it all sounds good to me.

Ancient relic of a pedal, but it's still going strong and it seems very very sturdy. The pots have a tight, quality feel.

Um, this isn't really applicable.

This is just a great sounding flanger pedal, that does fabulously rich chorusing and weird space sounds as well. Excellent pedal.

Plug it in, step on it. Noodle around with the adjustment knobs...How simple is that?

Sounds? Wow...There are so many. This is a warm sounding analog flanger.
I hear early Van Halen sounds. I had to put this between the amp input and my distortion / OD pedals. Sounded way better than after in the FX chain. The effect is far from weak. It actually is over the top at times. Playing with settings you can get some weird spaceship, siren, wailing type of sounds. Only like real analog FX can produce. So many cool sounds to be had from this pedal.

It was built in the 70's and it's still going strong. All steel case, press switch built like something in a WW2 tank. I would use this in a gig with no back up.

I have never had to deal with Yamaha yet. But after 35 or so years of use, and still going....I doubt I'll need to.

I love Van Halen, it's a great match.I've been playing for about 25 years. I'd try to find a replacement if needed, but it would not be easy to find. The one thing I wish it had was a power jack, it does not. Only 9V battery use. I did not compare it to other pedals. My reasoning was about 20 years ago my teenage buddie had one and it sounded amazing. I never forgot the sounds it made. Later now in life I decided to try and hunt one down. It is everything I remember it to be.

four standard good pots but this is a radical flanger, so attention has to be paid in settings. Some "over results" are also possibles. so it is not easy gear if you are looking for standard sounds and calm effects.

sound is a matter of taste, and I like this pedal becouse it is not normal, it is quite strong and sometimes excessive, so I think the sound is special, but not for every use.
It is not noisy in my opinion but it "paint" the sound a lot. I use it also direct in the PC and is good.

very strong, all fine

I've used this pedal for 4 years, very special sounds for my music. I play progrock and this is useful when space sounds are needed. I' ve also EH mistress, Ibanez FL9, Pearl FL01, ... they are all fine, but this is the most peculiar. there is no normal current plug in, this is nasty...

If you know how to use flanging it's pretty basic. 4 knobs = scope to stuff it up if you don't know. Lots of different sounds here and it doesn't have that 80s chorus-y overtone that lots of flangers do.

I sold my MXR Micro Flanger after I bought this. Enough said. No noise, except when you want it. Not too overbearing. Doesn't sound digital at all. Smooth like my Boss BF-2, but far more sounds. And the clincher: it self-oscillates. I can get the wildest tones from it without actually touching the guitar. Wild.

I use a USA Fender Lead I, Fender Cyclone and Ibanez Talman with Gotoh pick ups (which are grossly under-rated). Roland AD-50 fuzz wah, Boss AW-2, Boss ODB-3, Boss DF-2, Boss DS-1 silver screw), MXR Phase 45, this, Boss GE-7, Boss DSD-2 sampler, Boss FV-50 volume to a Fender Super 210 tube combo and Roland Jazz Chorus 120. I love Boss stuff but the Yammie wins easily!

Yamaha Japan cannot be broken. Ever.

Like every big company, as soon as the model is discontinued, any type of support is rare. It's so old anyway I'm not too put out.

We/I play indie rock or indie pop. This is a key ingredient of my setup. It can be subtle or completely overpowering (but only when you want it to be- it's definitely controllable like that) and it self-oscialltes. I have had a Boss Japan DF-2, a MXR Micro Flanger (which I sold when I bought this- and made a killing) and other generic flangers and multi-effect flangers. This is the winner hands down.

Four knobs to twist, one switch to kick... I'd say it's simple to use.

I've mainly used this in between my guitar and half-stack. NOthing else at the moment.

If you activate the pedal, there's a little "ocean sound" coming out of the speakers, but I think that's par for the course.

Best thing about this pedal: You don't have to get an MXR flanger to get that Van Halen "Unchained" sweep. It's all in the ears.
I can get that weird sound from David Bowie's "Ashes To Ashes". (The piano sound...)
And, yes, you can use this as a decent chorus on the clean sounds.

Metal case, big footswitch that goes "CLACK" whenever you put your foot down. Hell, it's even been used as a beer-bottle opener.

As far as using this on a gig without a backup... Yeah, definetly, as long as you have fresh battery in it.

Never had to deal with Yamaha. Not yet, anyway.

If this were stolen... It would be hard for me to find a good replacement. Most likely I'd get an MXR.

This is definetly a great tool to use when making music.

No problems to get a good sound of it, but you might have some problems to find exacty the sound your head is filled with.

I use it with a Hughes & Kettner Tour Reverb and a Epi Les Paul.
You get many different sounds, for example a chorus, but also the typical flanger.

As I know it's from the 70ies and it's still working without problems. Solid steel by the way ;)

I hadn't any problems yet! :)

I play blues and rock (psychcedelic and hard) and it fits quite perfectly. I'm playing for 2 years now and I'd certainly buy another flanger if it'd be stolen or lost.

It's got four pots, depth, speed, manual and feedback. Easy. No stereo outputs however.

There are many sounds in it, from the very subtle chorus-like flanging to all out self-resonance madness. Takes a bit of tweaking but as with most stompboxes, that's easy.

I've just played with my Hamer guitar into my Marshall 6100 LM amp, mostly using the clean channel.

Depending on the manual pot, you can get a bit of noise if it's active, especially if manual is set very low. I think manual must be some kind of frequency shifter that shifts the effect up- and downwards.

Don't think that it's true bypass, but it doesn't eat much of my guitar when active.

The casing is made of metal, I think (metal is always good). Pots are of good quality. It's got a huge, fat footswitch, not that thin pointy Marshall/MXR/... stuff. Jacks might not be that brilliant, but let's see what happens.

I have this for one day and I already like it a lot. As I said before, it can be both very subtle and an extremely dramatic. It doesn't do the Jet-swoooosh-flanging however. Or at least not very well.

It sounds great if depth is set to low values, 2-4 maybe. Set a slow speed and turn the manual up to 5, feeback to 0 - perfect. Nice modulating chorus/flanger. It really hasn't got that swooosh thing.

And yeah, it does self-oscillation. You don't even have to turn the feedback pot up much, at 5 and low manual settings, you can catch some oscillation that really sounds great when distorted, pure warbling frequency madness - great.

I like the fact that the pots are really very linear, depth goes from near-nothing to full intensity nice and clean, speed goes from ultra-slow to maybe 10 Hz, manual goes up very high and feeback can get you screaming self-oscillation easily.

4 knobs, like most flangers.

AMAZING WARM & LUSH ANALOG SOUND!! CAN REALLY SOUND LIKE A BOSS CE1 CHORUS ENSEMBLE!! WHEN TUNED RIGHT! THIS IS A FLANGER THAT DOES GREAT CHORUS TOO! A FLANGER FOR PEOPLE WHO DONT LIKE FLANGERS!! SOUNDS AMAZING!!! BLOWS AWAY E.H. FLANGER!

JAPANESE PEDAL 20 SMETHING YEARS OLD N STILL GOING STRONG!

THE BEST SOUNDING FLANGER/CHORUS IVE HEARD!! N IVE HEARD EM ALL!! REAL RARE N HARD TO FIND!! BUT ONCE YOU HEAR 1 YOULL LOVE IT!