Talk:Flanging

message: Seems to be the "Comparison with Phasing" section is rather wrong-headed (or perhaps just rather pedantically obtuse):
Flanging is created not by a "uniform phase shift" but by applying a *time delay* to the signal (classically, with tape flanging, by physically slowing the tape down on one reel, or in solid state electronics, by putting the signal through a bucket brigade delay line. 
This gives a DIFFERENT phase shift to each component of the frequency spectrum, not a uniform one.--feline1 15:35, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comparison with phasing

message: # the signals don't have to be in opposite phase. In fact I believe they're usually in phase.
# "According to one story, the effect was given its name by none other than Beatle John Lennon in the early 1960s."
Actually, the way HE told it to Kenny Everett in an interview was that he asked producer George Martin how it was done, and Martin bullshitted him with a complicated technical explanation involving "sprocket flanges". Lee M
George Martin &/or John Lennon may well have used the word "flange" in connection with the Ken Townsend ADT technique, but ADT is NOT the same thing as the flanging we're talking about here, & introducing the subject of ADT in this context is just likely to confuse an already terminologically-inexact area.
duncanrmi (talk) 07:03, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Two points

message: It isn't created by playing to tape machines in sync. It is created by having to tape machines RECORDING the signal onto tape, then taking mixing the output of the playback heads (located after the recording head) together. Thus keeping in sync is dead easy. Of course, one might be plying at a slightly different speed than the other, but that is exactly what you want. The point is that when you flange it, you slow it down, but the moment you let go, it immediately speeds up again. If it were a pure playback thing, the second machine would just keep going slower and slower until you had an echo, not a phasing effect.
I am updating the original article to explain this better.
:Thanks for contributing. Please sign your posts on talk pages per Wikipedia:Sign your posts on talk pages. Thanks! Hyacinth 08:22, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not just playback 

message: Isn't the intro of "Have a Cigar" by Pink Floyd actualy phase shifting?
:I am not sure, but there are way too many entries on that list. Can somebody pare them down, or else I will? Otherwise we could get rid of the section entirely. --Guinnog 08:01, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I like having the list.  It could help someone who has heard of flanging, but is not sure they have heard flanging.  What criteria would you suggest for paring?  I think one entry per musician/band would be reasonable, but I think there's only one per band now.  Some of the entries have more information than others (not just song name), which make them perhaps better - keep only those? Doctormatt 05:01, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: These lists tend to become full of fan-cruft, they need ruthless pruning.--feline1 09:07, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, but I ask again: what should be the criteria for pruning? Would sorting, instead of pruning, help? Say, by decade, or by instrument? There is always the option of making a separate article. Doctormatt 16:32, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I reordered the list with the more specific examples first, in case someone wants to prune the less specific ones. Doctormatt 20:20, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recordings with a prominent flanging effect 

message: I've flagged the Artificial Flanging section and sub-sections, and several sentences in them, for original research, lack of citations, and weasel words.--166.70.188.26 (talk) 18:56, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Original Research, No Citations, Weasel Words

message: Unless I've misunderstood, I think that what's described as "barber pole flanging" here is actually phasing and should be moved to that article.  It is an effect related to the perceived one-directional motion of the phase sweep; but in flanging there is no sweep, only a uniform phase effect.  Am I missing something?  Aiwendil42  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.36.179.228 (talk) 19:15, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Barber Pole?

message: Why and where does this article need additional citations for verification? What references does it need and how should they be added? Hyacinth (talk) 20:32, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional citations