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What's your favorite analog phaser?

#41
My favorite analog phase pedal is my DOD FX-20 Phasor from 1983. 4 stages with 4 3080 OTA chips instead of the FET that all the others used.
It delivers a wonderfully warm and rich phasing sound with both clean and dirty tones... just enough to know you have the effect on, but not enough to completely smother your tone. Perfect.

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#43
40Hz said:
The Wombtone comes to mind. Three LFO waveforms to choose from. Also supports midi, and you can add a “wank” (i.e expression ;)) pedal if you’re a real phase shift stoner.
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Part of me loves it, but there's no way I'm buying a Wombtone before a Warped Vinyl haha. You seem to be a bit of a phaser-head, do you know of any phasers that have a sinusoidal lfo opposed to a hyper triangle? A lot of the phaser options sound great to me on the down sweep but are too peaky when they come back around (like they're trying to emulate a Leslie).
 
#49
What about the Phase 95? Gets you block, script, 45, and 90 all in one mini pedal with LEDs and true bypass. Only downside is there's no room for a battery.

I'll use the block 90 sound for big sweeping swirl with an octave pedal in a rock band, but then use script 45 with some reverb for solos and melody passages in acoustic settings. No need to disassemble the pedalboard.
 
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Mosfed said:
Spaceman Explorer Deluxe
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the prices are absolutely ridiculous though.

I've tries quite a few phasers. the best sounding one to me was the Maestro Phase Shifter, but not very flexible and completely impractical. The Moog was my next favorite, flexible but still impractical and the bypass was garbage.
The Psilocybe is great but needs a volume control. I had mine modded with a 20db gain stage after the effect and now it works really well for me. I prefer the tone of OTA phasers though, I'm going to give the Whetstone another try next week as I found a used one for an ok price.

Cusack Tap-a-Phase, lots of features and works really well with bass, has an internal trim for volume. My only complaint is that it sounds more like a wah than a phaser. does not have the rich full sound of the Maestro, Moog or Psilocybe. But the tap tempo, multiple wave forms, ramp up and down functions are lots of fun and easy to use in a live environment without taking up a ton of space. It does not get enough love around here.

Some other nice phasers I have tried are:

The Grand Orbiter - lacks a volume control, that's a no go for me, but sounds good at home.
VFE Enterprise - kind of unique and has some cool tones, but again, no volume control.
Phase 90 - not enough control for me and gets too thin at points but gives you a classic sound.
Phase 100 - similar to the the phase 90 but a little more modern sounding. does not get as thin sounding but loses some of the 90s "magic".
 
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bassboysam said:
the prices are absolutely ridiculous though.

I've tries quite a few phasers. the best sounding one to me was the Maestro Phase Shifter, but not very flexible and completely impractical. The Moog was my next favorite, flexible but still impractical and the bypass was garbage.
The Psilocybe is great but needs a volume control. I had mine modded with a 20db gain stage after the effect and now it works really well for me. I prefer the tone of OTA phasers though, I'm going to give the Whetstone another try next week as I found a used one for an ok price.

Cusack Tap-a-Phase, lots of features and works really well with bass, has an internal trim for volume. My only complaint is that it sounds more like a wah than a phaser. does not have the rich full sound of the Maestro, Moog or Psilocybe. But the tap tempo, multiple wave forms, ramp up and down functions are lots of fun and easy to use in a live environment without taking up a ton of space. It does not get enough love around here.

Some other nice phasers I have tried are:

The Grand Orbiter - lacks a volume control, that's a no go for me, but sounds good at home.
VFE Enterprise - kind of unique and has some cool tones, but again, no volume control.
Phase 90 - not enough control for me
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I didn't see a price condition in the original post.

Plus I paid that much for my Mutron Bi-phase, Mu-fx Phasor 2x, etc.
 
#57
Grapevine921 said:
You seem to be a bit of a phaser-head, do you know of any phasers that have a sinusoidal lfo opposed to a hyper triangle?
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Actually I’m not much of an effect guy at all. It’s more a hobby/playtime thing for me. I get stuff to ditz with it, or for a project I’m working on. But I hardly ever use effects live. There are some real effects experts on TB. But I’m not one of them.

But I must have tried out close to 20 before I made my final choices. And oddly enough, two of the the simpler less expensive pedals were the winners.

I think phase shifting works best for bass when it’s kept simple and relatively low tech. But YMMV.

As far as a sinewave goes, the only one I recall is the discontinued Subdecay Quasar DLX and now the current in-production Quasar DLX II. Those had something like 10 LFO waveshapes, and one was a sinewave.

The Quasar (I tried the older one) was a very nice pedal. If it didn’t go for around $250 or thereabouts, I might have gotten it. It’s a scary versatile pedal. But my needs were simple. So the combination of a $60 Hotone and a used Phase 90 I got for $40 did me just fine.

Use a buffered splitter and do parallel tracks into a mixer or DAW interface. Optionally add additional effects to each chain. Very cool. Or chain one into the other for some really weird but (IMO) pretty effects. Why settle for just one phaser when you can have two by spending twice as much money, right? :laugh:
 
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bassboysam said:
the prices are absolutely ridiculous though.

I've tries quite a few phasers. the best sounding one to me was the Maestro Phase Shifter, but not very flexible and completely impractical. The Moog was my next favorite, flexible but still impractical and the bypass was garbage.
The Psilocybe is great but needs a volume control. I had mine modded with a 20db gain stage after the effect and now it works really well for me. I prefer the tone of OTA phasers though, I'm going to give the Whetstone another try next week as I found a used one for an ok price.

Cusack Tap-a-Phase, lots of features and works really well with bass, has an internal trim for volume. My only complaint is that it sounds more like a wah than a phaser. does not have the rich full sound of the Maestro, Moog or Psilocybe. But the tap tempo, multiple wave forms, ramp up and down functions are lots of fun and easy to use in a live environment without taking up a ton of space. It does not get enough love around here.

Some other nice phasers I have tried are:

The Grand Orbiter - lacks a volume control, that's a no go for me, but sounds good at home.
VFE Enterprise - kind of unique and has some cool tones, but again, no volume control.
Phase 90 - not enough control for me and gets too thin at points but gives you a classic sound.
Phase 100 - similar to the the phase 90 but a little more modern sounding. does not get as thin sounding but loses some of the 90s "magic".
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I have one of the early Whetstones. I wanted a pedal that does Smallstone but with control over more parameters. Also really loved the sound of the Vibrato mode with Low Pass filter on the ProGuitarShop demo. In my experience, the pedal produces a decent slow swirl with a bright guitar sound, but it is hard to get it wet enough, especially with a darker guitar sound or bass. Additionally I find the wooshing sound made by my pedal can be a bit much.

It should be noted that Blackout Effectors has updated the design since mine was new. Hope yours sounds awesome!
 
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Wasnex said:
I have one of the early Whetstones. I wanted a pedal that does Smallstone but with control over more parameters. Also really loved the sound of the Vibrato mode with Low Pass filter on the ProGuitarShop demo. In my experience, the pedal produces a decent slow swirl with a bright guitar sound, but it is hard to get it wet enough, especially with a darker guitar sound or bass. Additionally I find the wooshing sound made by my pedal can be a bit much.

It should be noted that Blackout Effectors has updated the design since mine was new. Hope yours sounds awesome!
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yeah that's kind of what i remember from the V1 i had a few years ago. i'll see how it goes with the V2
 

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