You wanna talk phasers? I'll talk phasers. When I first started using effects fourteen years ago, I didn't know of any effects other than distortion. When I did ultimately learn of them three months later, I was more interested in flangers. I didn't really get into phasers until I started listening to The Clash in high school. I didn't actually buy one until March 2006, during my final Spring Break of university - I was assisting my friend in a film project, having just come from Good N' Loud with a black Russian Small Stone in my car. I no longer have that pedal, having sold it after purchasing a reissue script Phase 90 w/LED, which I am shipping to a TB subscriber in about fifteen minutes. In exchange, he will be sending me his MXR Phase 100, which is the phaser Joe Strummer and Mick Jones used on "London Calling." Oh, and I think Steve Hackett, Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks all used it on "Selling England By The Pound."
Anyway, I also have a Pigtronix EP-2. It was between that, the EHX Stereo Polyphase, the Toadworks Phantasm, HBE Psylocibe, Blackout Whetstone, and the Subdecay Quasar DLX. The Pigtronix won, largely because, apart from the Polyphase, the others weren't available at the time (back in the dark and mysterious days of two months ago). Plus, those were the only two I actually tested, both at the Chicago Music Exchange. Luckily, as stupid as many of my decisions pertaining to pedals tend to be, buying from the CME was not one of them. I'll never make that mistake again, especially not while Rahm Emmanuel is mayor (read: 12,000,000,000% sales tax, plus 100% VAT). No, I ordered from Tone Factor, who will most certainly receive future patronage from yours truly.
If Strymon ever makes a phaser, I'll probably have other comments to add.
EDIT: I no longer have an MXR Script Reissue Phase 90 w/LED.
