Flanging

[BobF]

Hello gang,

I made a thru zero flange a few days ago (for recorded music in my case), see examples. It sounds pretty good, yet still not as good as 2 tape decks being slowed down and speeded up. I have a tape deck with variable speed and a cassette deck so I made some experiments and the tape flanging sounds so much better. Yet both work on the same exact principle. Does anyone know why the tape method sounds better. Can a Flowstone or other software Flanger be made to sound as good as tape Flanging? Does anyone know what the radio and record studioes use?

Thanks all, catch you later, BobF.....

[KG_is_back]

the tape method sounds better, because tapes are analogue... there is so much more stuff going on when using tapes that I fail to imagine it all... modelling tapes is half science half black magic... There are many plugins out there that attempt to model certain aspects of tapes.
For example this one was made in Synthmaker/flowstone: https://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/nastydla-final-teaser-and-release-info/
and it might be capable of what you are after...

[adamszabo]

if you provide some audio examples of the casette flanger perhaps we can help better maybe a sawtooth fed through it, or a whitenoise

[RJHollins]

... and don't forget vary pitch change.