Line 6 Flextone Cab 212S - Manual (Page 24)

F LEXTONE E FFECTS : O NBOARD E FFECTS
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Chorus - You’ll find two different chorus sounds in the Flextone. Chorus 1 is
modulated by a square wave, so it sounds more like a “rack” type chorus. Chorus 2 is
modulated by a sine wave with more feedback, so it has a richer harmonic content
with more movement. Chorus 2 was massaged to closely approximate the classic tone
of an old Roland CE-1 box.The Tweak knob controls the depth; Tap Tempo controls
the speed. By the way, if you want to get a really slow chorus, you have to tap really
slow - try about 6 or 7 seconds between taps. And if you don’t like that, remember that
you can always set your Tap Tempo speed by holding down the Tap Tempo switch and
then twisting the Effect Tweak knob to wherever you want to go.
Flanger - Flanging is that familiar “jet-plane” whoosh you remember from
recordings of the 70’s. Originally the effect was used rarely, mostly because engineers
had to set up two tape decks and use finger pressure on one of the tape reels so they
could slow down and speed up the tape in tiny increments to get this effect. Since the
part of the tape reel they pressed on is called the flange, you can see how the effect got
its name. As soon as someone figured out how to get this effect electronically, it was no
longer rare and was probably used a little too much for the next several years. We’ve
got two flavors of flanging available on the Flextone, both of which closely model the
tone of an old ADA flanger stomp box. Flanger 1 is a light flange with no pre-delay,
and is subtler than Flanger 2, which is inverted, and has a deeper range (depth). The
Effect Tweak knob sets the amount of feedback. Tap Tempo controls the speed.
Rotary Speaker - This effect simulates the effect of a miked, rotating high
frequency speaker horn, like on a Leslie. Caution for Flextone Duo and Plus
owners: listening to this effect in stereo through headphones could cause motion
sickness. Rotary speakers have two speeds: slow and fast. We’ve set up the
Flextone’s Rotary Speaker emulation to select a fixed slow speed if you tap slowly,
and a fixed fast speed if you tap quickly. When you switch from one speed to the
other, you’ll notice that the speed doesn’t change immediately, but gradually
changes from one speed to the other, just as a real rotating speaker’s speed would
ramp from one setting to the other. The Tweak knob controls the amount of
Doppler effect (pitch modulation); Tap Tempo controls the speed.
Delay - Otherwise known as echo or slapback. The Tweak knob controls the
level; Tap Tempo controls the delay length – in other words, how far apart the
echoes are spaced from each other. When you are using quicker delay times, we
cut down the number of repeats so you can get those rockabilly and surf slapback
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