# Boss BF-3 Flanger

> This modulation entry consolidates documented Boss BF-3 Flanger variants, controls, settings and roles across dated guitarist pedalboards.

- Canonical page: https://pedalboardarchive.com/pedals/boss-bf-3-flanger/
- Machine-readable index of the archive: https://pedalboardarchive.com/llms.txt
- Evidence and reconstruction conventions: https://pedalboardarchive.com/methodology/

- **Category:** Modulation
- **Types:** Flanger, Modulation
- **Also known as:** BF-3, Flanger
- **Controls:** Depth, Manual, Mode, Rate, Resonance
- **Identification:** The model is identified.
- **Documented appearances:** 3 boards, 2006–2019

The current-production Boss flanger in its purple chassis.

## Documented boards

Each row is an observed appearance on a dated board. A position is only an observed one where that board's order evidence says so.

| Artist | Board | Date | Positions | Order evidence | Page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Bruce Springsteen | Magic tour remote and offstage rig | 2007-10-01 | 5 | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/bruce-springsteen/magic-tour-remote-and-offstage-rig-2007/ |
| Joe Walsh | Eagles Staples Center touring board | 2006-01-01 | 6 | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/joe-walsh/eagles-staples-center-board-2006/ |
| Robert Smith | Three-board Boss system | 2019-03-16 | 7 | Reconstructed | https://pedalboardarchive.com/artists/robert-smith/three-board-boss-system-2019/ |