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Bass Phaser, Is it a myth?

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TZero

Oct 9, 2011
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#1
Hey I was wondering if a phaser made specifically for bass exists. Because the only one I found was this custom made one that cost half a grand, a little over budget?:bassist:
so far the only thing i have found are guitar phasers, used on bass, which sound cool and all but i found some times the low end is cut.
 
#2
TZero said:
Hey I was wondering if a phaser made specifically for bass exists. Because the only one I found was this custom made one that cost half a grand, a little over budget?:bassist:
so far the only thing i have found are guitar phasers, used on bass, which sound cool and all but i found some times the low end is cut.
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You're not going to find too many specifically for bass. But I can tell you that there are several that let you control the frequency of the sweep so that it won't sweep down into the bass frequencies and cancel them out. The EHX Stereo Polyphase is one of them. It has start and stop knobs, which controls how high and low the sweep travels. The Moog Phaser lets you control the center frequency of the sweep, and there are others that give you similar control.
 
#5
EBS makes a phaser for bass:

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here's a link where you can hear sound samples:

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I've got one on my board. It's a good pedal. It's not one I use a lot, but for maybe two tunes a night when I'm going for a psychedelic effect in the jam part of the song.
 
#7
I just bought a Moogerfooger phaser and it lets you sweep a wide spectrum (or spectra?) of frequencies, to me there´s uses for letting affect the low end at times when I want it to move and evolve and when I want a solid, intact low end I turn the Sweep up high.
Furhter more, the ability to control how far the LFO will move the centrum frequency makes it genius and when you realise what you can do with 8 i/o to send and recieve control signals from other Moogerfooger it makes you frown upon other phasers. :spit:
 
#8
Just search here on "phaser" and you will find literally thousands of posts talking about phasers that work great on bass.

Also I have used at least a dozen not-specifically-bass phasers, and not one of them cut any low end. Whichever one you tried that did cut lows was an exception. So that's a big reason why you don't see so many bass phasers out there.
 
#16
In my experience a lot of low cut comes from the way pedals interact in the chain rather than how an indivdual pedal cuts lows by themselves.

Just experiment, these all have different characteristics. I have an old DOD FX20B (B does not stand for bass) phaser. warm, raw sound, and cheap on ebay.
 

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