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TC Electronic SCF Stereo Chorus Flanger
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TC Electronic SCF Stereo Chorus Flanger
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Published on 12/03/06 at 09:38
Pedal Analog Stereo Chorus, Flanger and Pitch Modulator.
input, 2 outputs
3 knobs control effect (speed, quantity, depth)
Mini knob of a gain (pre-amp built in)
1 led to saturation
Powered by 220V (what happiness ;-)

This pedal is a real tank
I bought mine in 1984, and it works like the 1st day: the knobs are still fluid and silent.
(Ah, if all the pedals could be designed like that ....)

UTILIZATION

It is finally a pedal a bit "unconventional" I rather like I was using a rack, placed on one of my amps because I had much need the settings on hand to switch the effect that foot. Especially, I almost always Inrush effect. on the other hand I changed the amount and type of effect between songs.
Before using it as fact, I used it in order to attack my stereo 2 amps (or 1 amp over the sound system). It is true that the stereo effect is quite striking ;-)

SOUND QUALITY

This is the pedal "pro" par excellence: no sound / noise and even connected in two stereo amplifiers old. With it, no need for an A / B box designed to avoid the effects of loops. The integrated pre-amp can regenerate itself sound before sending it to the amp.

The sound effects are typical of 80 years: both very "clinical" and very "colorful".
Nothing to do with the effect known as "vintage", and nothing about racks with digital sound.

It's definitely a pedal that has a very strong personality. The Chorus has a lot of depth. The Flanger and pictch are very powerful. I think we had at that time another way to understand the effects guitars: it was actually quite omnubillé by the search for a "spatialization" of sound. And it is true that the TC SCF did that very well.

OVERALL OPINION

When I bought in the early 80's, the pedal was just the most expensive on the market. At the time, F 1600 was really a very large sum ;-). But we must also recognize that it works - after more than 20 - as in the early days.

In the 80's, Chorus and Flanger effects were unavoidable, but is this still the case in 2006?
I'm not interested in all styles of modern music (not far), but it seems to me that we are now much less in search of sounds "hyper spatialized."
For my part, in any case, I use my TC virtually CFS for nearly 15 years. Maybe I arrive finally at an age where I will not use any effects: just a tele plugged into a VOX AC30 ;-)