Andy Summers Walking on the Moon Analog Flanger / Filter Matrix Pedal by Electro-Harmonix 

Andy is 80 years old. Amazing!

Andy Summers saved my life. Plutôt que de me suicider à 43 ans (après une série de grosses mésaventures puis d'une grosse dépression), j'ai appris la guitare en autodidacte en travaillant les morceaux de Police. 10 ans plus tard, je joue dans plusieurs groupes, et rien ne me donne d'avantage de plaisir de vivre que de jouer de la musique.

The first three pedals i bought, back in 1982, were a Big Muff, a Deluxe Memory Man, and an Electric Mistress. Because I loved and still love Andy Summer's playing and sound!

The dude is 80 years of age and as sharp as a knife and plays just as good now as he did decades before.

Still my favorite electric guitarist on the planet. A few weeks ago a member of my audience commented that our band reminded him a bit of The Police in some spots. Best compliment I ever got. Well . . . except for Larry Mitchell calling me a "bad-ass" at our first meeting . . .

Andy Summers is 80! He looks and sounds great!

Love how it sounds like a combination of flange and lush chorus.

Ehx rocks! It’s the pedal manufacturers and artists we love that inspire the sounds we chase

Man, how much I love this guy. His (and eh Police's) songs with stay with me for life.

He is a great textural player. Thanks for vid

Andy has been an inspiration to this South Yorkshire lad since Outlandas D'Amour.... in 1998, my manager gave me a 1977 Electric Mistress as a present for me giving him the acetate of his favourite song, The Kinks' 'Big Sky'. I've used it ever since but in the last decade been looking for something to take it off the effects board... now we have it. Cheers EHX. p.s. 1996, I went as a degree exchange student to California State University Northridge, for three months, to learn Sound Recording and Guitar Improv... found out that Mr Summers was alumni of the same dept.!

Love love love Andy's sound!

Love Andy Summers and The Police. One of the best bands EVER, in my opinion. The writing was so melodic and the band was so tight…of course Stewart Copeland = amazing. And the pedal sounds great.

Thanks to The Police for all your music!!! You are one of my favourite bands in my life. Also nowadays...

Thanks god Andy still with us , my playing was HUGELY shaped on rare Police B Sides , that tropical atmosphere, oh wow ❤

I bought one of these and can't wait to try it.

Long iive Andy Summers and Electro Harmonix!

I bought a LongAmp Roxanne because I wanted this sound. I had a late 70s small box Electric Mistress that I idiotically sold, and that thing was the best sounding flanger I've ever heard. If only I'd waited a few more months for EHX to drop this one.

Andy Summers is the man! He's been a huge influence on my playing and the way I look at the guitar and what it can do. Will definitely pick one of these up. Going to see Andy when he's in Northern California later this year.

There were 3 things that made the Electric Mistress sound as good as it did. 1) It had very little filtering on the delay signal, leading to a brighter crisp tone, which a Telecaster is going to love. 2) It used a Reticon delay chip, that could easily achieve very short delay times, for a breathier, less metallic tone. 3) A very different modulation generator circuit that yielded a more "musical" sounding sweep than the standard triangle we have seen in many other flangers. The use of a higher supply voltage probably helped, but to my view, was not as pivotal as the other three things. Reticon chips are long gone with only the odd few here and there for repairing vintage pedals. Certainly nowhere near enough for any company the size of EHX to produce a product run. The Xvive clone of the old Panasonic MN3007 bucket brigade chip is an acceptable substitute. Not absolutely identical, but there are workarounds, and EHX uses Xvive chips in their Memory Boy/Toy pedals.. At the time of the "golden age" of the EM, EHX also produce a foot controller pedal, called the "Hot Foot". It looked like an oversized wah, and used a flexible cable, coupled to the pot inside the pedal. At the other end of that flexible shaft was an adaptor that could be attached to the shaft of any pot on another pedal. Work the Hot Foot, and you could adjust a control on a pedal on the fly (I used mine to work the volume control on my compressor, allowing it to do swells and also overdrive what the compressor was feeding). The unit had some physical caveats. It had so much torque, you could easily flip the other pedal over if it wasn't heavy enough, or secured in place. As well, attaching the free end of the shaft required enough clearance that the pedal you were trying to control needed to have its controls spaced apart. There were two "killer apps" for the Hot Foot. One was attaching the cable to the delay time control of a Memory Man. This let you "bend" the pitch by quickly shortening or lengthening the delay time, to do many of the things we wouldn't be able to do until years later when the Digitech Whammy showed up. The other, which is why I went off on this tangent here in the first place, was use of the EM as a pedal-flanger when switched into the "filter matrix" mode, to achieve tailored and ultra-long sweeps, via foot control of the Range pot. At the time, it was about as close to putting your thumb on the take-up reel of a a tape machine as a person could get in a live context. I miss my Hot Foot. There are many expression pedals and input jacks for them, available these days, but the Hot Foot let you apply real-time control to things lacking electronic expression control, especially vintage pedals.

This man is 80! Unbelievable!

Amazing and creative player with his own unique sound. Played a part in shaping my own rhythm/clean tones, and explorative style including the use of the expansive flanger/chorus and delay. HUGE never-ending beautiful chords.

Sound has a nice warm analog tone. Currently my MXR micro flanger is the tops till this day👍🏽 Andy summers is one of the reasons why I have 3 telecasters He’s just great 👍🏽

Funny how the Police rode in on the punk wave without actually being punk---or even youngsters for that matter. I understood it for what it was (hype), while enjoying them for what they were---great musicians who played rock, raggae, and ska w great flair and great songwriting.

This is one pedal for a man. One giant leap for mankind.

The most fascinating commercial I've watched in a very long time. Well done.

This man looks incredible for 80

I love that you’re doing artist signature stuff. Now reissue the Deluxe Octave Multiplexer

Love Andy Summers - phenomenal guitar player. Lets Hope this-version is an Improvement over their recent Mistress offerings.

That sounds so damn good!

sounds amazing!

One of the greats.

Omg this is that music I've had in my head since the first time i watched this!

I get mine tomorrow! Can’t wait to play it.

I love EHX pedals! You guys rock

Finally a fully analog flanger. Thanks, EHX!

This is the man! World!

Nice. I have no idea what it really sounds like from this presentation but Andy will always be one of my heros for his distinctive approach to chord voicings in pop and jazz and ambient rock with Fripp

The pedal sounds absolutely fantastic, and you gotta love the story (and playing) from Andy Summers himself.Much as I truly love EHX and all of the EHX pedals I bought throughout the years, I am wondering what's different than the good, old Electric Mistress Deluxe (my favorite flanger pedal ever)?

I need this .

Gonna see Andy this fall

Guitar Legend 🎶

Hell yeah EHX and Andy ! Another killer pedal from ELECTRO HARMONIX and a added bonus ANDY SUMMERS ! You can not freaken lose ! For sure you wll not be losing tone !

Top Andy Summers

I love EHX and Andy is my favorite guitarist. This pedal is a DREAM, but EHX could make it in a smaller box!!!

What’s the difference between this and Electric Mistress Deluxe? Literally seems like a rebranded one

I love your flangers…yesterday, I bought an Electric Mistress…Gonna buy this one too….one for my guitar and the other will go for my bass. I’m enjoying your equipment (@ EHX) I bought the switchblade pro and lizard queen for my bass…and the flanger….I really like how you cater to the bass community as well as guitar.

Andy's tone is what I think of when I think of "clean guitar tone."

Shame there’s no Nano version - that would’ve been a Day 1 buy for me. Is this a new pedal or a reskinned Deluxe Mistress? Hopefully someone does a comparison video of the two, and with the PastFX Elastic Mattress.

None other.🎸Congrats. 🌙🎛️ 👣🎶WGS🌎🙏🏻💚

Love hearing this insight into the music creation process, especially in the context of them emerging in the form of a punk band. Also, what string gauge is he running, those looked THICK

Legend! Simple as that. Such a talent. Check out his records with Robert Fripp too! Pure genius. Check out his autobiography. Such a great book.

Yes yes yes!

What's the difference between this and a regular Electric Mistress?

the music he was a part of with The Police was really special.

Cool...

Sold! ☺️

Sounds legit

Sold.

This is the pedal I've been waiting for my whole playing life! Thanks you EHX - my only gripe is, is this any different from the Electric Mistress redo you guys did recently? Is there anything more vintage spec or special about this apart from Andy's name? We didn't get much detail on those nuances from this video, but of course, I appreciate Andy speaking on it and hearing his playing immensely.

Wow, pretty impressed with the price

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This pedal is a steal and sound great to boot. It's an Electric Mistress in all but name but who cares. Buy one now!

I’m going to assume that Andy was actually using the original Electric Mistress pedal on Police records in those days (I had the original one too and used it on records), so this pedal appears to be the old EM pedal repackaged. The newer EM pedals just don’t sound as good as the old originals (I have a new one an I’m very disappointed in it). Maybe this “Police” version is better.

One of my two favorite guitarists. One question - How is this different than the electric mistress flanger EH makes.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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My adopted style is kind of cross between Andy Summers and the Edge, I use a lot of altered chords from listening to those guys, with chorus delay and compression,You kind of get keyboard pad Sounds,I cover walking on the Moon and de do do do, but I also do songs like just the Way you are by Joel and Babe by Styx,,It’s using techniques and effects to sound like a Fender Rhodes or something

They could have made this same pedal in a NANO version mini version plus not sure what is so different about this artist version series compared to the stock version?

I grew up with the Police’s music as a kid. They might have been the first band that really opened up my brain to a new musical world, without the obvious rock and roll guitar and amp combinations we have now.

I wonder how this compares with the EHX Electric Mistress Deluxe unit. How different is this one from the Deluxe?

How does this differ from the most recent Electric Mistress pedal?

I miss The Police chemistry. Shame, Sting, you should write a bit more with these two, there's been space and success apart, time to hear your writing in that special context, again. A band is a band, as much a gift as a burden.

Genius….

Is this a new pedal or just a current Green Deluxe Electric Mistress in new packaging?

Sounds like some Men At Work Flanger tones as well!

I bought a used flanger (can't remember the brand... it was yellow LOL) in the early 80's just to cover some of Andy's stuff. Like Andy... broke basically. I was grossing $250-300 a week ($50/gig on average) playing bars and clubs, so even a used pedal took every penny of a night's pay, and the damned 9-volt batteries to power them took another 20% LOL. Gas, food, and often housing was out-of-pocket.... Oh yeah... strings. I changed strings every other gig - another $10/week LOL. Great times though. Then they changed the drinking age to 21 and turned every full-time club band into weekend warriors overnight .

Ok.......❤❤❤❤❤❤

When I heard WOTM (in this video) I was going to comment that it doesnt sound quite like the original...until I realised who was playing. I guess the reason must be that Stu and Sting aren't playing here, too.

Wait, so how is this actually different from the Deluxe Electric Mistress XO aside from the signature branding and new enclosure art?

Im guessing this would be perfect for Gilmours Mistress sounds too?

Small Stone next??

I’d love to see someone cover, The Spirit of Radio by Rush… with this pedal?

That's the make-my-guitar-sound-out-of-tune pedal.

What’s different about it from the stock pedal? Did Andy use a modified one?

Super cool that they are doing this, but the settings for these songs sound a little wonky. Almost sounds univibe-y the way he has it here.

Every time Andy Summers plays 'Every Breathe You Take' Puffy Daddy has to pay him royalties...fact.

This pedal is the game changer for playing police ???

So, is this the Electric Mistress with Filter Matrix? Analog?

Does anyone know what the 3rd pedal Andy is using at 1:12 is? Thx.

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I'm just over half Andy's age. And he looks younger than me.

Can this do Peter Hook stuff too?

I always thought that was a chorus. I guess they're similar effects.

Swweeet..

Wow. It's only 129.00 US.

Is the same XO REBRANDED?

Sooo, it's just a reskinned Electric Mistress flanger then? EHX still makes the Electric Mistress...

Bro got the lays potato chips guitar tone rn but add flanger like how can you make a jc sound bad

let those strings ring then andy!!!!!