The Swim Team by Mojo Hand FX is a chorus and flanger with finely tuned, simple controls that make it impossible to get a bad sound out of this pedal.
I think Mojo really nailed the initial product experience with the Swim Team. All knobs at noon, either chorus or flanger, just sounds instantly fantastic. I found the sounds really inspiring to play and come up with 80s inspired indie/dream-pop rock music.
The panel is a quad chorus circuit paired with a vintage inspired flanger, and a pushbutton switches between the two DSP programs: chorus in the up position, flanger in the down position, confirmed by the LED. Three knobs handle both modes. Rate sits on the left and sets the LFO speed. Depth sits top right and controls how wide the modulation swings. The third knob, on the right, does double duty: in chorus mode it’s Mix, balancing dry and wet signal, and in flanger mode it becomes Feedback, controlling how much resonance gets fed back into the circuit.
In the demo above I’ve set up sweeps for Rate and Depth in both chorus and flanger mode, plus separate sweeps for the Mix knob in chorus and the Feedback knob in flanger, so you can hear exactly what each control does in each mode without guessing.
The chorus mode sounds bubbly and lush while the flanger has just the right amount of feedback control. It never goes into an obnoxious airplane woooosh, and just adds enough resonance to spice things up tastefully. Classic Chorus (rate 5, depth 5, mix 5) is the noon-on-everything sound I mentioned, full and shimmering without getting seasick. Drowned Lo-fi (rate 0, depth 8, mix 10) kills the rate entirely and pushes mix to maximum for a static, detuned pitch-warp texture rather than a moving chorus. On the flanger side, Freaky Flanger (rate 8, depth 7, feedback 9) shows the pedal at its most aggressive, while Almost Vibrato (rate 9, depth 2, feedback 7) proves how far you can push rate with depth pulled back for a tighter, more vibrato-like wobble.
The Catalinbread Callisto MKII is the other pedal on this site that covers chorus and flanger-adjacent ground from a single box, which makes it the natural comparison. The Callisto is a single BBD analog chorus and vibrato circuit with four always-on knobs (Rate, Depth, Mix, and a dedicated Feedback control that pushes the chorus toward flanger-like clanging as you turn it up). The Swim Team takes a different route: two separate DSP programs, chorus and flanger, selected with a pushbutton, each with its own genuine algorithm rather than one circuit stretched to cover both. That means the Swim Team’s flanger has real flanger sweep and resonance, not just a chorus circuit pushed into feedback, while the Callisto stays in one continuous analog signal path from subtle shimmer to full vibrato. If you want one knob-per-parameter analog circuit that blends smoothly between chorus and vibrato, the Callisto is built for that. If you want dedicated chorus and flanger voices you can switch between on the fly, the Swim Team is the one.
This is a great fit for indie, dream-pop, shoegaze and anywhere 80s-inspired modulation textures are welcome, whether that’s a clean rhythm part or a flanger swept lead. It also works well tucked into an ambient signal chain alongside pitch and reverb pedals, as shown in the recording notes below. The main thing to know going in: three knobs mean you’re not sculpting a waveform shape or blend ratio the way some fancier modulation pedals let you, so if you want deep parameter control this keeps things simpler on purpose.
Guitar
Bass
Ambient Pad
Overdubs
Lead Guitar
Drums
The whole mix was “mastered” with exciter, limiter and mild compression in the DAW.
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