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The Electro-Harmonix Club. Part deuce.

How did the Polyphase hang in the mix? .. Im also curious about the expression pedal and how it sounds in envelope mode.

So, to finally answer this question two weeks later:

The Polyphase is an interesting beast when in a full band mix. In envelope mode, with the resonance past noon, it sticks out just fine. Funky as all get out. In LFO mode, I like the resonance down around 8 or 9 o'clock. Unfortunately, that makes it a bit subtle. Then I threw on an overdrive before it. That blew me away, what a great sound. I did not get the chance to break out the expression pedal during practice, so I still can't comment on that.

To summarize, it stands out great in the mix unless you keep the resonace low. If that's the phaser sound you like, its a good idea to kick on some sort of overdrive or light distortion before it.
 
Great, thanks for the answer. I always like the sound of phaser being driven. Which overdrive did you use? I got a Holystain that I use for my dirty drives now.
I got a XO Q-tron+ so I have envelope covered, but Im really curious about the Polyphase envelope, as in how much difference or similarity is between them two. When you throw in the expression pedal things might get real interesting when you have the Q-tron plus Polyphase plus expression pedal(all with a little fuzz) :bassist:
 
Great, thanks for the answer. I always like the sound of phaser being driven. Which overdrive did you use? I got a Holystain that I use for my dirty drives now.
I got a XO Q-tron+ so I have envelope covered, but Im really curious about the Polyphase envelope, as in how much difference or similarity is between them two. When you throw in the expression pedal things might get real interesting when you have the Q-tron plus Polyphase plus expression pedal(all with a little fuzz) :bassist:

The overdrive I was using was the EHX Germanium OD, with the gain basically cranked.
 
Question for any stereo electric mistress owners. I just recently bought one and was looking on the description for powering via an adapter, the description said to only use the included adapter at one point and then said you can use any boss style 9 volt at another. I just got a one spot with a 5 cable adapter and was wondering if it is safe to power the mistress with the one spot. Any body using this combo out there??? Had any problems???
 
Question for any stereo electric mistress owners. I just recently bought one and was looking on the description for powering via an adapter, the description said to only use the included adapter at one point and then said you can use any boss style 9 volt at another. I just got a one spot with a 5 cable adapter and was wondering if it is safe to power the mistress with the one spot. Any body using this combo out there??? Had any problems???

Dude, I've been using it on a 1spot and it's golden. :D

No problems whatsoever. You're good.