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Home › Forums › Tips, Tricks, Clips, and Pics › Any way to fight signal drop with Flanger Hoax?
My setup is like this: Gibson SG – Tuner – Big Muff Pi – VOX Wah – Flanger Hoax – Boss Delay – Fender Dual Showman – 4×8 Cab. I love the flanger sounds and what I can do with it but when I hit it the signal drops way down. I want to use it for leads but it isn’t usually practical because the guitar becomes inaudible. Any thoughts / mods?
Put a booster like a lpb-1 after (or before if you prefer) together with the hoax on a loop, both pedals on. When you activate the loop, the booster and the flanger become active and with no volume drop.
the loop is really the best way, the other option being to run a subtle compressor (such as the black finger) after the hoax. if you keep the settings toned down, you get a nice dynamic smoothing effect without that funky strangulation compressors are traditionally known for. it may take a while to find ideal settings, but i used this method before deciding the flanger hoax is not a pedalboard pedal and it worked great.
the advantage is that you don’t have to drop a TB loop onto your board. however, this also compresses any white noise from the hoax when you stop playing, and it MAY sound a little strange with the big muff as well – compressed fuzz sometimes sounds weird, sometimes sounds awesome.
Lastly: not sure if you’ve noticed this, but the volume drop is most severe in LOG mode; LIN tends to stay a little more even, at the cost of some of the unit’s better sounds.
I concur! I run a booster at the end of my chain because my phasers drop the volume. I have been meaning to throw them in a loop with a booster, but haven’t got around to it yet. It would make it the most optimum option.
i have a LPB1 after mine and all is well now.