Manual
Carl Martin is doing a groovy thing out there man…. Intro-
ducing the Vintage Flanger; designed for those guitarists
who desire this unique form of modulation. The Vintage
Flanger has four knobs to control Speed, Depth, Pre-
delay and Feedback, plus a dual speed mode that is foot-
switchable. There are no rules with a Flanger, just plug
this versatile modulation pedal in and play play play. As
with all the Vintage pedals, the Flanger comes in a solid,
diecast housing with the cool CM graphics and chicken-
head knobs. It can be powered by 9v battery or a
(recommended) regulated 9v power supply like the
CM ProPower or PowerJack.
BYPASS
FEEDBACK
The bypass switch, turn on/off the effect, the
Classic Flange is not "true bypass" it has a
high quality buffer circuitry.
The Green LED light up when the unit of
activated.
The Classic Flange offers two settings of
speed, fast/slow selected on the switch. The
fast/slow setting share the same speed knob,
therefore when changing the speed setting in
fast mode, it will also change the speed in
slow mode.
FAST-SLOW
The Speed knob controls the how fast the
sweep of the flanger should be, in fast mode
it can go very fast, sound is reminiscent of a
vibe/leslie.
At slowest the speed is very slow, provides a
sweep that stretches very wide, good for
alternate rhythm figures.
Fast on slow setting is close to slowest on
fast setting, so the speed has two modes to
operate over.
SPEED
The Red LED flashes the speed setting in
real time, so there is a visual indication on the
speed chosen, this also flash in bypass
mode.
The depth controls the amount of effect, it
works closely together with the feedback,
caution is needed at extreme settings,
the unit will self oscillate when both
controls are set close to maximum.
The Depth goes from subtle to extreme,
and as mentioned earlier it works in
tandem with the feedback control.
DEPTH
The pre-delay sets the short delay time in
which the Flanger operates, set to the
extreme left it is the shortest time available,
and to the extreme right it is the longest
time available. The Pre-Delay controls what
frequencies the Flanger accentuates and
attenuates, as it is a moving filter that
sweeps up and down following the Speed
control. In other words, it sets the flavor of
the Flangers tone, from very swirly to rising
and sinking curve, and everything in
between.
The changes in flavor is rather small, yet
still an important parameter to trim the
flanging.This one is difficult to describe in
words, play around with, and find you
favorite
PRE-DELAY
The feedback controls the amount of signal
that gets send back through the sweepfilter,
at low settings it gives a chorus like sound,
increasing it will give it the more hollow
ghostly sound, feeding some frequencies,
and damping others, in other words it
controls the amount of flanging needed for
the effect, works closely with the Depth, can
be set into a controlled oscillation where the
speed can be manipulated for fast or slow
oscillations, acid stuff!
