FLAMMA FS03 Electric Guitar Delay Effects Pedal with Looper Stereo Digital Sound 6 Delay Effects Storable Preset Tap Tempo Trail On True Bypass for Pedal Boards

Can we all just take a minute to appreciate our friend, the over-worked and sometimes underappreciated reverb effect? Heck, at this very moment, there are thousands of guitarists feverously debating which little green box will make us sound like Stevie Ray Vaughn. All the while, the lowly reverb effect is dutifully working away without so much as a pat on the back! So, I put it to you, fellow citizens, isn’t it worth going beyond your amp’s built in reverb and getting a proper reverb pedal? I am a tone hound and any time I make changes to my rig I record before and after tracks with a portable recorder with 2 condenser microphones. Then, I compare with headphones. Yes, I’m nerdy that way. I had all but decided on the MXR Reverb or the EH Oceans 11. Then, I saw a comparison of low-cost reverbs on 60 Cycle Hum (a great resource for pedal fans) and decided it would be worth it to take a chance on a lesser-known brand like Flamma. Especially considering the Flamma costs about half of what the other reverbs I considered. Here are my impressions: 1. Reverb is lush and varied 2. Every parameter I would want to tweak is included 3. You can save user settings 4. Even in an effects loop with a daisy chain power supply, the unit operates flawlessly 5. It offers stereo in and outs 6. According to some surf connoisseurs, the spring reverb setting doesn’t truly “drip”. Maybe so, but to my ears, the spring setting is still well represented here and is one of my favorite settings 7. Most importantly, it seems to build a beautiful reverb while retaining your guitar’s tone. It doesn’t transform your tone, it enhances it. So, I believe the Flamma offers great value for those, like me, who are price conscious but still want a quality product. If you are chasing a specific verb setting, like say, the spring setting on the Ocean’s 11, it might be worth spending more money to get that. If, however, you just want an all-around lush reverb, with a sturdy build and plenty of features, I would highly recommend the Flamma FS02.

A few disclosures: 1. Amazon is currently lumping many of the Flamma brand pedals into one spot for reviews. I'm reviewing the FS03 Delay pedal. 2. I'm using this pedal on synths, samplers and drum machines. 3. I'm not using the looper bonus feature on this pedal (it's very bare bones). Right now, we are spoiled for choice with all the budget priced effects pedals out there. With the current holiday discounts and promotions, I've picked up a few pedals from different manufacturers featuring one of my all time favorite effects - delay! The Flamma FS03 delay pedal is a standout. Construction-wise, it's very nicely made. The housing, buttons and knobs all feel sturdy. The layout is intuitive. Stereo in and outs. Well implemented tap tempo option. Like a lot of other people have said, the lights on the foot switch are just too cool! As per usual, you need to supply your own power adapter (there's no battery option, if that's important to you). For choice, there's six different delay algorithms to work with. You can get 'bread and butter' delays out of it that sound very musical, and can be quickly 'dialed in' with the top three knobs. If you like to experiment, the "Tweak1" and "Tweak2" knobs can put you into some pretty weird territory. Again the knob layout is very helpful here, and if you check YouTube, there's some good demo/tutorials on what this pedal is capable of. Most delay effects I get are keepers as every manufacturer tosses in a unique feature or two, but the FS03 from Flamma is one of the best "budget" delay pedals I've come across. :)

I finally broke down and joined the Looper fan club, and I wish I had done it sooner. It really makes a great "sketch pad" to try new ideas, and it's a great learning tool. The cons- the instructions that came with it were a little vague, and I'm a looper newbie, so it took a little getting used to. A trip to YouTube and a little experimenting got me going pretty quickly. I still can't find the accessory footswitch control, which would be nice to have. Some of the drum patterns are, well, horrible. It would be nice to have a "fill" feature, and some editing control over the drums as well. It also might just be me, but the tap tempo is hard to use. The pros- It works, it sounds good, and with 90 drum loops and 10 metronome settings, you might not find THE perfect drum beat, but there's something in there that's pretty close. It's easy to use, and putting overdubs down is a painless affair. Being able to sync the looper and drums is definitely a nice touch. The sound quality is excellent, too. Overall, I'm happy. For the money, it has some nice features, and most importantly, it works as it should. I've had no issues in about 6 months. I would recommend this to anyone who wants a nice looper for a good price. It's a lot of looper for the price.

Ok, I shopped quite a few reverb pedals to end up with this one. I did some side by side comparison of this pedal along with Boss RV-6, GOKKO Creepy, Ammoon PocketVerb, Valeton Ocean Verb, and JOYO Atmosphere and TC Electronic HOF mini. I will tell you, the Price of this unit, although it is very affordable, was not the reason I ended up with it. I like this pedal best. 1 - it looks awesome , kinda has that DarkGlass look to it. 2 - it is incredibly user friendly 3 - the design is very well thought out, and I liked it best of all pedals, including TonePrint by TC Electronics 4 - has a good selection of Reverb Types 5 - Sounds great First, I will say, I am not a HUGE reverb buff, and saying that I mean, I don't like BIG, WARM, OVER THE TOP reverb types, I can usually find happiness in Room, Hall, Plate or Spring, and usually do not like Modulate, and am not a fan of Dynamic or Shimmer at all. For the most part, side by side, if you leave all controls neutral, out of the box, all the pedals have similar sounds. some were a little noisy and arcifacting, but overall, they all performed pretty good. My least favorite sounding was the BOSS RV-6. it was very warm and colored my bass tone. Yes, it changed the sound of my bass. none of the other pedals really did. The JOYO and Valeton had a lot of noise in many of their BIG types of reverb, but were pretty standard for the rest. The JOYO, Valeton, and Ammoon were all room temperature. The Boss was warm, but the Gokko Creepy and this Flamma were ICY COLD. This is what I look for in a reverb, I like cold, crisp, empty reverb, and these two pedals did a great job of that. The controls on the Gokko were clumsy, and you would need to continuously dial in your sound, with no real setting for the TyPES that is claims to have. The controls on the Ammoon and JOYO were big, and easy to see, pretty easy to read. The controls on the Valeton were tiny, hard to wok with, and it was impossible to read. The HOF mini, not enough control for me, and you can only use 1 tone print at a time. if they had the HOF2 regular pedal in stock, I probably would have got that and stuck with it, and probably would have passed over this FLAMMA FS02, and that would have been most unfortunate. So, this pedal, Icy cold, very crisp, and the Halls and rooms couldn't feel any emptier, and I LOVE IT. The controls are great. There is a vertical indentation on top of them all, with a dot on one end, so you can easily see how each nob is set with a quick glance. The POCKETVERB also did Delay, which I don't really care for. fi you like delay, that is not a bad pedal for the price, only problem is you have only one set of controls for both effects, but it is manageable. The design of this pedal is unique, and very good, easy to use and I love it. There is a row of colored lights across the pedal. there are 7 lights to be exact, and they are each a different color. and you guessed it, they represent the type or reverb. There is no selector nob, with no tiny lettering to try to read and see if you are on the right type. you have one button above the light bank. you press it and it moves across to the right. the types are starting on left - to the right. Room, Hall, Church, Cave, Plate, Spring, Modulate. once you remember that (and I did quickly), you are set. ALSO, you can set the controls to neutral before you move to the next type, or you can move to that type, hit the foot switch to turn it off, adjust the controls to 12oclock, and then turn the reverb back on. you get Level which is MIX, high and low cut. These do not color your sound, they are used to remove any coloring that may occur (which I found none) then you have Decay and Pre-delay. standard. So, once you dial in the sound you like for the type you are on, including the level (mix), you can hold the button for a couple seconds, and it is saved. This way, when you come back to it, you don't have to neutral out the nobs, and start over. Very halpful. Also, if you do move the control, the light will flash, letting you know that something has changed, so you can be sure to save it, if you want, or ignore it if not. It is a nice, sturdy, cool looking, well built, feature rich reverb with an ICY cold, crisp, empty sound that does not color your tone, and its only $66, what more can you ask for. I guess if you like Delay with your reverb, you could ask for that. And they answered, cuz for about $30 more, you can get the Ekoverb by Flamma, and I bet its good. that one, you can control the reverb and delay separately, unlike the Ammoon PocketVerb, but thats what you get for the extra $40 bucks From what I understand, the older Boss RV-2 or 3 were icy cold, and that many boss fans are unhappy with the current RV-6 because of the warmth it has. If thats you, and you need a new reverb pedal, check this one out Oh yeah, all that, and its stereo You can easily factory re-set if you want to clear all the settings, just take the power out, then hold the button and power on, when you let go of the button, it resets. Plus you can add or remove tails. take the power out, then hold the foot switch and put the power back in. this turns it on or off. When it is off, the pedal lights up RED (everything but the color lights for the type) and when it is on, the pedal lights up blue, so there is never a question which way it is. like I said, very well designed pedal.

Great pedal ....my 3rd Flamma pedal .....excellent sound and many features ...Great addition for reverb and delays...very nice... a great purchase ....nice addition to my board

Here is some things I didn't know before I bought this pedal, and wish I'd have known. 1. The looper doesn't work. There is a small pause inserted into your loop, this will interrupt the rhythm of what you're doing, you may loop one bar, but you'll get 4 and 1/2 beats in the loop, with silence for the 1/2 beat. 2. The tone adjustments adjust your clean guitar tone too, not just the tone of the delayed signal. This SUCKS. So if you want dark repeats, you'll have an equally dark guitar tone, you can't have a bright guitar tone with dark delays. So, the only option if you want a normal guitar tone is to have bright delays that get in the way. Nothing like tape, or analog delay. 3. The extra level of effects on each delay mode aren't that good. Like they tried to take their delay pedal to the next level, but none of the next level effects sound good. I like good sounding delay and experimental delay, so bought this over simpler delays. But the "experimental" layers of the effect just don't sound good, experimental doesn't mean sounding bad, it means sounding new and interesting. The choices for "experimental" fx that they made are just BAD. Each time I try to use this pedal, I end up trying to figure out how to remove as much as possible of the extra layer of effect for that mode. 4. You can only save one preset for each of the delay modes - most of which are not useful, even for really out there guitar stuff, I'm not a blues lawyer or a dad rocker or anything. So the first mode is the most usable, and you get one preset for it. 5. The pedal is sort of true bypass. When the pedal is off but plugged into power with signal going through the pedal, there is tone suck, and cloudy noise introduced. You can unplug the pedal, and then the pedal is true bypass. It will still pass signal, but now it is actually quiet, doesn't suck tone, and doesn't cloud your guitar tone. I bought this pedal when it was new, it was a major investment for me, I have been shopping for a delay for a couple of years, and I took the risk on this new pedal because the company looked like they were trying, they did some work on their branding, it has presets (I use delay on several songs, and setting the delay each time before the song sucks, but then this pedal only has one storeable preset on the one okay mode) they had a delay with several modes, which had additional fx for each mode, so get tweakable delays. It all looked good to me, and it does look good on paper, or in marketing. But, it is OKAY (only) on the first mode. It does have tap tempo which is nice, not necessary, but nice - when we're writing/jamming, if somebody gets something good going, it is easy to tap in the tempo with just your foot, and dive into the jam, the tap tempo works well enough. But, I should have saved over 50 bucks and just bought a good cheap analog delay as all the bells and whistles on this delay are useless, and the core sound is digital and yehck, and there is only one passable mode. Honestly, this pedal seems like the person or people who designed it, don't play guitar at all, so were just slapping code onto the delay code to make the tweakable parts of each mode, but the designers don't know what sounds good, so had no real design goal. It is like a deaf person designing this pedal's effects. Sure, slapping a stuttering pitch effect sounds awesome! And from other designers it is good. But if you're deaf, you can't know if what you are doing is musically useful or musically useless. These modes land in the useless category for me. I guess this is a long, rather negative review, my apologies, but I was VERY disappointed with this pedal, and really wish I'd gone with another brand.

Sound quality aside, I had to return it because it kept making a low volume, but still able to hear, beeping noise that sounded like a sequencer set to the pace of the delay time. Even turning the pedal off, if it's even in the chain it would make it. I tried it in different chain positions as well as the effects loop, and nothing helped the noise. It may have to do with that I play through a bass amp and that noise is too low to come through on a guitar amp, but unfortunately I don't own a working purely guitar amp currently so I couldn't cross test before returning. However, I now own other reverb and delay pedals and I've never heard a beeping from them even on the bass amp, so I'm not sure what's up with this one. As far as the tone goes, I didn't get to know it for very long and it was hard to focus with the beeping, however I'm not really satisfied with any of the reverbs. They all sound pretty modulated and artificial. The delays sound pretty good I won't lie, however having to use each of them with only one specific reverb rather than being able to mix configurations is a large setback. I'd say the most usable tone was the reverse delay/swell reverb, but it still suffers from the reverb sounding artificial. So pretty much, if you want a cheap option for a pedal with some decent reverse delay, that comes loaded with a lot of other lackluster to average quality sounds, (all the while potentially risking having a sequencer playing through all your songs), then this may be the pedal for you. However if it's the reverse delay you're looking for, I highly recommend investing in a higher grade pedal like the Danelectro Back Talk. I've seen em in shops for about $150, and although it just does one sound really well, it's far better to invest in good quality sounds they get an array of lackluster ones

I was very excited to try this pedal after reading such Positive reviews, and it did not dissapoint, firstly the packaging, it is sleek and stylish and the pedal is well protected (see pictures) The eckoverb is a stunning multi mode stereo delay and reverb pedal, with three different modes offering a plethora of tonal options Mode 1 is a reverse delay plus a swell reverb Both the delay and the reverb sides of this pedal can be sculpted to determine the level of each effect you wish to have in your signal chain. This particular mode is my favourite, and the most inspiring to use imo. I found myself playing disturbeds version of "sound of silence" it really gave me the dramatic haunting type of sound, and works very well with a driven tone. Mode 2 is a reel echo delay and a modulated reverb, Straight off the bat, this gave me an old school shadows sort of sound, and dialled in i played apache, it really nailed that tape echo type sound. Mode 3 Analog delay + shimmer reverb Who doesn't love a bit of shimmer in there playing? You can have it dialled so you getting a light ambient sprinkle that dances around your notes, or full on spacial ambience. This particular mode i personally found to be a little overwhelming (this is just my personal opinion) the effect itself is excellent. It also has a tap tempo/hold switch, which obviously you can set the tempo, but when you hold the switch down you can freeze you trail, which is a great feature at this price point. You can turn off the trail feature by pressing the bypass switch. All of the effects can also be used in stereo mode, which is insane for under $100!!!! The only negative I found with this pedal, is that there is sometimes a little interference when plugged in with a distortion/overdrive pedal, not enough to be a massive issue, but an isolated power supply fixed this problem. It also worked very well when used in conjunction with digital effects (bias fx 2). No interference at all when using overdrive/distortion. To sum everything up, it is very well made, great aesthetics, and a very versatile delay/reverb pedal, with the ability to sculpt any tone you desire, all for under $100, its a steal, well done Flamma!!!