The best phaser for anything!
Original big box EHX Small Stone.
In lack of better Behringer's clone of it the VP1 Vintage Phaser, better than EHX's own current Nano reissue, even if much cheaper.
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My Dirt Bender - Another Jounal
- Thread starter el murdoque
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Original big box EHX Small Stone.
In lack of better Behringer's clone of it the VP1 Vintage Phaser, better than EHX's own current Nano reissue, even if much cheaper.
Yes.
My feeling is something based on the Phase 90 circuit is probably the way to go, but there are many, many options these days! I really like the Broughton Carina, and have seen a couple going for decent used prices. It does this nice thing where it emphasizes some treble presence in a way that helps your signal avoid getting totally lost in the mix (sometimes the loss of top end from modulation effects can wash the bass out in a way that's frustrating). I realize I am giving this advice to the fellow who probably passes no signal above 800Hz due to the deadness of the flats, and D-standard tuning, so.... what top end are we emphasizing in this case? LOL.
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Since you love Chase Bliss pedals so much 
my vote goes for the Wombtone. People are still selling them around $300.
my vote goes for the Wombtone. People are still selling them around $300.
I really like the Mr Black Gilamondo phaser. Discontinued and probably already relatively rare in Europe, but it won out for me against a bunch of nice boutiquey phasers about a dozen years ago and I haven’t looked back. I also used it in a proto-metal band for what it’s worth!
I think the Source Audio C4/Spectrum can do decent phaser sounds too if you want to try it out in your band (I think you have a C4?)
I think the Source Audio C4/Spectrum can do decent phaser sounds too if you want to try it out in your band (I think you have a C4?)
I mean.... this surely is a joke. Like.... you know how much I love me some FM!
But in a metal band? Barring some spacey/ambient sections, I see that being a difficult texture to fit in practically.
So. Let's go into another round with the Tube Drive.
First things first, I need to eat a solid piece of the humble pie.
I ran both the Meatsmoke and the Blackbird into the Bassrig SV. Since both of these come with a severe disablitly, I set the Bassrig to Short Bus Mode - by boosting the mids really really hard. That severe mids boost was massively interfering with the output of the Tube Drive, and It took me a while to figure out that the green Effectrode does not need training wheels - and you might imagine that almost every accomplished cyclist will struggle hard when you fix training wheels to their bike - it just does not ride the way it's supposed to with those things on.
Well, I found it in the end and dialed the mids knob back to a more credible setting, and the Tube Drive changed completely.
It's still, I must admit, not my favorite flavor of dirt.
Imagine a high gain distortion that sounds like this:
...and you're pretty close actually.
It's quite impressive how well behaved and cultured this device can sound while having your gain sizzling on four cylinders simultaneously and adding dirt by the spade.
The Effectrode homepage claims David Gilmour uses that pedal, and I'd say that this is a good fit.
First things first, I need to eat a solid piece of the humble pie.
I ran both the Meatsmoke and the Blackbird into the Bassrig SV. Since both of these come with a severe disablitly, I set the Bassrig to Short Bus Mode - by boosting the mids really really hard. That severe mids boost was massively interfering with the output of the Tube Drive, and It took me a while to figure out that the green Effectrode does not need training wheels - and you might imagine that almost every accomplished cyclist will struggle hard when you fix training wheels to their bike - it just does not ride the way it's supposed to with those things on.
Well, I found it in the end and dialed the mids knob back to a more credible setting, and the Tube Drive changed completely.
It's still, I must admit, not my favorite flavor of dirt.
Imagine a high gain distortion that sounds like this:
...and you're pretty close actually.
It's quite impressive how well behaved and cultured this device can sound while having your gain sizzling on four cylinders simultaneously and adding dirt by the spade.
The Effectrode homepage claims David Gilmour uses that pedal, and I'd say that this is a good fit.
That could be a new theme for the pedalboard. Make it a PEDALBOARD.
I'd keep the Meatsmoke, obviously because that thing is huge.
The Pitchblack Tuner would have to go, to be replaced by a Boss TU 1000.
The Cali76 is too small, obviously, but luckily there's the big box Cali to switch over to.
The Bassrig is also quite compact. The biggest pedal of that style I can recall is the Sansamp VT Deluxe.
Then swap the Julia for the Mutron.
Pack all of them into a bag and head to the next music store.
Tell them you need a pedalboard. They ask what you got and you say
"It needs to hold a tuner, a drive pedal, a compressor, a phaser and a preamp."
They go "Then you might want to look at the Pedaltrain Nano +. It holds five pedals".
That’s not a tuner
That’s a tuner.
Coming back to this post as I'm struggling with my own dirt section on the board right now... (and I'm eyeing the EQD Acapulco Gold)
I have an OJ that I just threw off the board, and your comment intrigued me. I found the OJ to be either barely there or just way too much in terms of gain.
Do you recall your settings for a Meatsmoke-esque tone? Start with everything at noon, go from there?
Another thought on this: Keep in mind that I use flatwound strings.
