The MXR Flanger creates a variety of wild sounds from dynamic jet plane or cool space effects to short delay, chorus and vibrato.

The MXR Flanger creates a variety of wild sounds from dynamic jet plane or cool space effects to short delay, chorus and vibrato. Back off Width to zero to disengage auto-sweep, then use the Manual knob to physically place the effect anywhere along the frequency spectrum; use with guitar, bass, keyboards or vocals.

Features

• A staple of funky ’70s sounds, from jet plane to space effects
• Numerous tweakable parameters
• Does the work of a flanger, chorus, delay and more

Power

The MXR Flanger is powered by two 9-volt batteries (remove bottom plate to install), an 18-volt AC adapter such as the Dunlop ECB004/ECB004E, or a DC Brick power supply.

Directions

• Run a cable from your guitar to the Flanger’s INPUT jack and run another cable from the Flanger’s OUTPUT jack to your amplifier.
• Start with all controls at 12 o’clock.
• Turn the effect on by depressing the footswitch.
• Rotate the MANUAL control clockwise to emphasize higher frequencies or counterclockwise to emphasize lower frequencies.
• Rotate the WIDTH control clockwise to increase the intensity of the time delay as set by the SPEED control or counterclockwise to decrease it.
• Rotate the SPEED knob clockwise for a faster phase effect or counterclockwise for a slower phase effect.
• Rotate the REGEN. control clockwise to increase the overall intensity of the effect or counterclockwise to decrease it.

Specifications

• Input Impedance : 470 kΩ
• Output Impedance : 1 kΩ
• Max Input Level : 5 dBV
• Max Output Level : 5 dBV
• Noise Floor* : -98 dBV
• Noise Reduction : 2:1 ratio
• Max Delay : 12.8 ms
• Rate Range : 0.1 Hz to 10 Hz
• Current Draw : 39 mA
• Power Supply : 18 volts DC·

Controls

• MANUAL knob controls the degree of phase shifting
• WIDTH knob controls the intensity of the time delay set by SPEED knob
• SPEED knob controls the speed of time delay
• REGEN. knob controls the intensity of the overall effect
• FOOTSWITCH toggles effect on/bypass (blue
• LED indicates on)