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MXR EVH-117 Van Halen Flanger
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MXR Edward Van Halen signature Flanger
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Searched MXR EVH-117 Van Halen Flanger in Reviews
The unchained original flanger! 
| Ease Of Use |
firstly lets assume you don't know anything about the manipulation of effects but like ed's unchained tone, that with this pedal is a butons push away.... yes you heard me right one button, push it, unchained! How easy? very! In more depth the unit comes boxed with a few bits of evh paraphanalia, clear instuctions on the use of the unit and the ruber knob covers! The unit has four knobs and is based on the origional bucket brigade chips of the origional mxr flangers that are considered by many to be the absolute grail of delay and modulation effect tone. The four knobs are labelled manual, speed, width and regen. Manual controls where the phase is in relation to the signal in delay, speed is how fast the effect sweeps through the delay, width controls the sweeping time delay, the higher the width and spped the more intense the effect is and the regen controls the overall intensity off the effect in your signal path. It sounds a litle confusing but its pretty easy to get to grips with. The unit has a red led for effect activation and a yellow led lights up in the evh swith to tell you its activated, the unit runs on 2 9v batteries or an 18v regulated supply.
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| Sound |
As for the sounds there is everything there, i'm not kidding! Lets look at it like this evh uses one, john petrucci uses one, eric peterson uses one too name a few! I think you'll find this enough to prove the point of the quality of this unit! The unit does slow steady pans like ibanez's flying pan unit's. aeroplane noises, whooshes, swirls, boners fast pans, chorus like effects and of course evh too a tee! Thia unit is without a doubt a good one and i strugled to part with the initial high asking price but i'm glad i did. The evh button goes straight to the unchained setting and let me tell you folks, go into your local dealer, grab a humbucker equipt guitar, take your hand and rub it up and down the strings over the bridge pickup and hey presto... atomic punk! Yes guys you too can be evh at the push of a button! This pedal still blows me away, i never cease to be amazed by it!
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| Reliability |
Its tough, gigworthy and grest looking. It sits in mxr's large housing with rubber feet on the undernesth and two snap fit compartments conceal the 9v batteries. the switch feels great and solid underfoot and being mxr you could most probably run it over with a sherman tank and it would still be useable. The paint finish is ubercol and well applied as well as being thick and hardwaring. This box came to rock and doesn't dissapoint with any feature of its constuction!
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| Liked about it |
The tone is perfect and versitile.
strongly built and very well finished.
The evh unchained switch is exactly wha the doctor ordered for many a evh fanatic!!
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| Didn't like |
18v can cause a problem on most pedal boards.
large footprint
battery consumption.
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| Overall satisfaction: |
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5.0 |
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