How do you use phaser?

[misterwhizzy]

What type of song? How intense? What are you trying to accomplish tonally with its use? Clean or dirty? Where in your effects chain?

Simple question. Make your answers as complex as you'd like.

 

[Mincer]

It is my modulation of choice. I like 4 stages (Small Stone is my fav), with the speed set really slow, and I have it 2nd in the chain, after a compressor. Clean or dirty, it doesn't matter.

 

[Securb]

I use mine as a doorstop. I am not a big fan of phase on guitar, but I love it on keys.

 

[Liam1963]

I use mine as a doorstop. I am not a big fan of phase on guitar, but I love it on keys.

Hey, I have the same phaser, and a similar door and floor! Seriously, I use mine sparingly at best, I do have an instrumental that I plan on recording over the summer that make great use of it.

 

[jeremy]

i have a phase 90 on one board, but dont use it all that much. usually clean to when chording to give a little movement. compressor->phase 90->od->od->delay

 

[Securb]

Hey, I have the same phaser, and a similar door and floor!

"Hello police I think he's in the house"

 

[Demanic]

Gordon Lightfoot uses it to great effect on at least a few songs. I have a univibe setting in my Spidervalve that's tap tempo controlled and I love it for clean stuff.

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[GuitarStv]

I loved and used one of the old big box small stone phasers for years, usually set to slow rate with the color off. Great for funky chords or arpeggiated bits. Very tasty into an overdrive or a compressor. I swapped it a couple years back with a univibe, which does the same slow/pulsing thing on chords/arpeggiation but also does a cool thing for single note lead stuff.

I like phasing/vibe after fuzz, but before pretty much everything else.

 

[Mincer]

I tend to like phaser a lot more than flanger, vibe, leslie, or chorus. I have recorded with all of those, but live the only mods I use is phaser, and some chorus on the repeats of the echoes.

 

[solspirit]

I tend to like phaser a lot more than flanger, vibe, leslie, or chorus. I have recorded with all of those, but live the only mods I use is phaser, and some chorus on the repeats of the echoes.

On tn top of a little chorus sweetens things up.

 

[Mincer]

A little chorus on top of a little chorus sweetens things up.

After the 80s (a chorus was the 2nd pedal I ever bought), I was kinda sick of that sound.

 

[Rex_Rocker]

I use it (loosely) like EVH to add some subtle movement to some lead lines. But I don't play anything like EVH, LOL.

I just like it on some of the more angular, kinda synth-like lead lines that aren't like shreddy leads or anything.

I like a Phase 90 because that's what EVH used. No other reason. It's just the most familiar-sounding to me.

I don't really use it much, TBH. Can get pretty cheesy if you abuse it too much.

This is an old recoring on one of my songs where I used it. Pretty cheesy, I know, but sometimes cheesy is cool.

www.dropbox.com/s/owzz7vt8tepname/VEM - Song 2.mp3?dl=0

 

[misterwhizzy]

I use it (loosely) like EVH to add some subtle movement to some lead lines. But I don't play anything like EVH, LOL.

I just like it on some of the more angular, kinda synth-like lead lines that aren't like shreddy leads or anything.

I like a Phase 90 because that's what EVH used. No other reason. It's just the most familiar-sounding to me.

I don't really use it much, TBH. Can get pretty cheesy if you abuse it too much.

This is an old recoring on one of my songs where I used it. Pretty cheesy, I know, but sometimes cheesy is cool.

www.dropbox.com/s/owzz7vt8tepname/VEM - Song 2.mp3?dl=0

I like what you did there with it. That's a great answer.

 

[GuitarStv]

Good call on adding sound clips to show what you're talking about.

Slow Rate Deja Vibe - https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=14389586

Slow rate small stone - https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=13902403
Trying to sound like keys on guitar with the Small Stone - https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=13033324
Slow Rate Small Stone with delay - https://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=13872473

 

[Aceman]

After the 80s (a chorus was the 2nd pedal I ever bought), I was kinda sick of that sound.

80's have been over for 30 years Dave. It's safe to use Chorus again.

 

[Aceman]

I generally do not use Phaser period.

At best, to do EVH solos like the tapping in Eruption. Every once and again as the effect of choice on a song that uses it. Lightning Crashes, Shooting Star, etc.

That said - I am a fan of the more subtle variations.

I have three Phasers -
1. My first, a Behringer Vintage Phase or something. And EVH copy
2. A Block Phase 90
3. A VFE Enterprise - which I really dig for making interesting sounds, and I prefer the 3 stage setting.


I'll take Chorus every day all day long
I like a Flanger for "impact" occasionally
Phaser only if required.

 

[Mincer]

80's have been over for 30 years Dave. It's safe to use Chorus again.

I don't think it is. Some things should just stay in their time.

 

[Chistopher]

I just have a script Phase 90 (one of the handwired 100% faithful reissues) whose speed knob has not been touched since I bought it. It points almost directly left.

I use it almost exclusively to add spice to lead lines that rely upon long sustained notes.

 

[GuitarStv]

80's have been over for 30 years Dave. It's safe to use Chorus again.

The best chorus is a flanger though.

 

[jeremy]

the closest thing to a chorus i have is my rotosphere, and thats close enough for me