Acutally was going to post this one Thrusday, talk about good typing =>

ANyways Been thinking about adding some modulation back to the board, and have been spinning the Furs self titled dsik pretty much non stop for the past fews. Thinking flange might be the way to go for me.

ANy suggestions on what to try, MXR or EH maybe, Other flanged out things that I like were Me I disconnect from you by Gary Numan, Station to station by Bowie (which has to be tape flange right? the TZF sounds like it can nail it) & Trans Europe Express by Kraftwerk (eventide unit if I remember correctly).

Not looking for exact but something a nice size package True bypassed or at least not tone sucking..

The TZF sounds like it would be way more than what i would need for the sound's I would use it on and not have the normal tubular woosh either..

Any idea's? Looking to fill that empty quirky pedal spot on the board. Thanks!!

This is from an older Ashton interview. Looks like MXR.


Another band that got the John Hughes treatment was The Psychedelic Furs, whose early track Pretty In Pink was Pretty In Pink was Pretty In Pink reworked for the hit film of the same name. Guitarist John Ashton had been on the fringes of the goth scene since its inception, and had played on an early Sisters single, Alice. He brought a Les Paul and a John Birch guitar to The Psychedelic Furs, the latter procured from The Banshees’ John McKay. ‘I went to the London Synthesiser Centre and got an ARP Avatar, which looked like a Moog and had a setting called Hex Fuzz that I liked,’ he remembers. ‘It came with a pickup that would go into my guitar, and I ran it through a little telephone extension speaker or my Fender Twin. I got a lot of the ambient sounds for India off that, and the solo for Fall. I learned how to do the same thing with gain and distortion in the end – it’s a lot less hassle!’ Ashton was also a big fan of traditional valve amps and interesting distortion boxes. ‘I spent a lot of time doing overdubs on our second album Talk Talk Talk, and I always had four guitar parts for quite some time after that. In Dumb Waiters I did some elephantine feedback on some of the solos, and some atmospheric slide on the outro. We got bigger, more ambient sounding and reverby, but it was still very in your face. ‘I played acoustic for the fi rst time – a J-200 on the intro and outro of All Of This And Nothing – but my main guitar was a Music Man Sabre II. I put a Les Paul pickup in the neck and a Bill Lawrence in the bridge, and cranked it up through a baby Vox and a Pignose. Pedalwise, I was using an MXR fl anger, a Rat, a Roland Space Echo, delays and wah. I was always much more into effected-sounding lines than straight ones, and I also used a lot of textures and volume pedal swells, as well as some harmonics.’

Cool thanks for the info! On guitar geek they have him using an Electric Mistress, Pearl Flanger and the MXR. Such great sounds, hope that MXR does an TB'd non-Van Halen version of the flanger.

just ordered a reissue MXR flanger heres to hoping!