I have tried my Flanger Hoax on and off the board a few times. The first one was actually faulty so it wasn’t off to a good start. I find it to be too subtle for the most part. I have an MXR Micro Flanger and a Small Stone Phaser. If I want a Flanger I put on the Flanger, and if I want a Phaser I put on the Phaser. The thing about the Flanger Hoax is that it simply cannot do either role with any real authority. It’s always very wishy washy and weak sounding. I think it would be nice to be able to bypass the delay lines so as you could focus in on just the swept phaser and hopefully be able to get a traditional strong phaser effect out of it. It’s just too big, too subtle, too random…how? If you set the swept phaser to give you a “somewhat” strongish phaser sound, ie with feedback up and amount up around 3 o’clock and the blend at 2 or more. Then you can put the delay lines on DC so as to try and keep them out of the way by not having them swept. The positions of the delay lines changes the intensity of the sound so much that a slight movement here or there and the sound is weakened. The short of it is that it is NOT posible to get the sound of a Small Stone from this pedal. If you bypass the phasers and use delay mode 2 or 3 then either the first or second delay line is fixed and the other is swept. You can use this with the blend on full to give you a flanger sound. Don’t expect to be heard when you do this however. If you choose mode 1 or 4 then both delays are swept and you get a sort of flangerish like sound but again it’s still not anything like what an MXR Flanger does. If you put the delay controls at 12 o’clock and everything else off and turn up the rate you can get an interesting ring mod like sound. You can do things to the sound with the delay knobs. Quirky and fun. I don’t find it to be the heinous noise machine people make it out to be. I ran mine into a compressor to even out the volume. People complain about noise but I don’t hear it. It’s not a terrible pedal, it just doesn’t do standard sounds so I don’t find it very useful. Maybe if it was POG2 sized and ran off of 9V and had an output level control, it may win back a few points. The way it is it’s just a little big and non-specific sounding for me.