Flattley Guitar Pedals is a family run business established in 2016 and is situated in Gloucestershire, England. We do all of our product processes and manufacturing assembly within a 30 mile radius in Gloucestershire with the aim to keep our carbon footprint as small as possible ensuring Flattley pedals are all truly made in England. After repairing the electronics in guitars, bass guitars, effects pedals and amps for many years in my spare time, I decided that it was time to venture into something new, making effect pedals. I had been working in the Aviation Avionics Industry for over 30 years after starting my working career as an avionics technician in the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm working on helicopters. I was very confident that I could produce a high-quality product based on my aviation quality assurance and standards which would live up to my very exacting requirements whilst producing the sound and tone that musicians are looking for. Each effects pedal is hand built, hand wired, and our enclosures are hand finished giving our pedals that personalized touch.
The “Bass Star Fazer” is a 4 phase stage bass phaser with a quartet of matched transistors. The two control knobs allow you to dial in depth and rate giving you a clean, smooth super phasing effects.
The purple halo light ring installed diffuses the light when playing live, avoiding being blinded by the standard LEDs just as you are about to go into that all important solo thus giving a larger area to see where the pedal is located easily on the pedal board on darkened stages. The addition of the aluminium foot topper gives you more real estate for contact when switching the pedal on and off during quick changes when playing live.
All Flattley “Platinum Range” pedals are hand processed in our Flattley paint shop. The bare aluminium enclosure is abraded prior to painting with the etch primer. The etch primer acts as a anti corrosive layer and allows the primer to bond to the enclosure ensuring a tough resilient paint finish.
Multiple coats of base coat primer are applied which are then lightly abraded to remove any blemishes or paint speckles prior to the application of the base colour. We apply several coats of base colour until an even coverage occurs and the base colour develops rich smooth depth. Metallic holographic chrome flake is then applied using a clear inter coat which adds that all important Flattley sparkle.
The pedal enclosure is now ready to be hydro dipped in its Flattley graphics. This is the process whereby the graphics are applied using water activated film, the residual PVA film is then washed off and the enclosure is then allowed to dry naturally.
Once dried the lacquer process begins. Each “Flattley Platinum” pedal has a minimum of three coats of lacquer which are all wet sanded between coats. Once the lacquer has hardened, it is then hand polished using three different grades of polishing compounds and it then has a final polish to achieve a high gloss finish using a wool finishing pad. This process gives the smooth deep lustre finish that is inherent in all Flattley Guitar and Bass effects pedals.
Specs:
Rate: Controls the speed
Depth: Controls the intensity
The Bass Star Fazer comes in a 125B Enclosure (L x W x D): 119x64x40mm (including lid) (69 x 2.52 x 1.57 inch)
Standard negative centre, -9v dc tip power supply unit/power brick required
No internal 9v dc battery function
20mm anodised aluminium custom etched control knobs
Purple halo light ring installed
The Bass Star Fazer comes with a purple custom etched aluminium foot topper
This edition comes in purple, holographic chrome flake and silver paisley skulls hydro graphics.
