Canadian boutique builder MayFly Audio Systems has introduced the Déesse dual flanger.
The Déesse has two foot-switch selectable sides with independent Speed and Width controls. Set side A to be a classic slow flange, sent side B to a ring modulator sound (or anything in-between), and switch between them on the fly, live. It includes two knobs for controlling Manual and Regen function for both channels.
Like the popular Mayfly Goddess dual chorus, the highly versatile Déesse uses bucket brigade delay chips for its organic, immersive sound. These chips are expensive and a pain to work with, but MayFly Audio feels that this old-school tech still sounds the best.
Key features include:
- Dual flanger with footswitch selectable sides
- Separate Speed and Width controls for each side
- Global Manual knob adjusts the midpoint of the LFO (Low-Frequency Oscillator) sweep, effectively controlling the range where the flanger is operating
- Global Regen knob (Regeneration or Feedback) for controlling the intensity of the flanger’s the comb-filter effect
- Old-school bucket brigade chips for unrivalled flanging sound
- True-bypass switching
- 9-volt DC power operation via standard externals supply, 55mA – no battery compartment
- Evocative artwork by Sabine Elliott
About the pedal’s name: Déesse is French for Goddess. According to MayFly “this flanger sounds like it has divine feminine connections, but we could not call it ‘Goddess’ as we already had a pedal with that name. So instead we named it after a mythical Québécois character who ranks right up there in the powerful, mystical, and la Femme category. Kind of like the pedal itself.”
The Déesse carries a street price of $215 USD / $295 CAD. For more information visit mayflyaudio.com.
