The Carl Martin Vintage Series Flanger is a flanger pedal from the Danish maker Carl Martin. It has four knobs covering Speed, Depth, Pre-delay and Feedback, and runs on either a 9V battery or a regulated 9V power supply, with Carl Martin recommending a regulated supply such as the CM Big John1.
Controls and operation
The Vintage Flanger has four knobs covering Speed, Depth, Pre-delay and Feedback, the standard set for shaping a flanger's sweep rate, intensity, delay time before the modulated signal and the amount of fed-back signal1. It also offers a dual speed mode that is foot-switchable, so a player can move between two speeds during a performance without touching the knobs1.
Power and hardware
The pedal runs on a 9v battery or a regulated 9v power supply, with Carl Martin recommending a regulated supply such as the CM Big John1. The housing is solid die-cast with Carl Martin's CM graphics and chicken-head knobs1. Like others in the Vintage Series, it uses heavy-duty mechanical-bypass footswitches, as Vintage Guitar magazine's review of the series noted2.
The Vintage Series
The Flanger is part of Carl Martin's Vintage Series range. The series received a new look in 2018, according to Delicious Audio's coverage of the line3.
A later Carl Martin flanger, the Carl Martin Axis Flanger, was covered by Delicious Audio in 2023 as a compact reissue of the classic Carl Martin flanger with simplified controls. Players comparing the two should treat them as different pedals in the same family.
Sources (3)
- Carl Martin Announces New Pedals, Premier Guitar, 2008-12-22
- Carl Martin Vintage Series Pedals, Vintage Guitar magazine, 2010-03-23
- Carl Martin DC Drive Pedal, Delicious Audio, 2020-01-08
