A lucky purchase with a positive attitude! Lesson learned! I have a mxr 90 which I run through the effect loop of the deluxe memory boy since it’s much less obvious that way. See you next video!
Sweet! Even though I have a Phase 95 on my board right now the Small Stone is my favorite phaser. I have one of those original ones, a early 00’s reissue. Both have the volume drop. I sent the 00’s one to Analogman to fix that. Had a 90’s black one too, it sounded great with a battery. And I can’t wait for the comparison video! I’ve never heard those other 2. Great channel!
I got a silver Nano back when when I thought I wanted to make creepy Brian Welch sounds. Now I use it in place of a vibe until I decide which one I want. I think phasing is an acquired taste but they're a ton of fun when the mood hits right. Also LOL at the Emily bit and grounding on the laptop at 6:23.
Congrats on the score. Any Small Stone sounds great.. But the winner is the first issue with 6 chips. All Small Stones have a Color switch that alters feedback, sweep width and waveshape/speed at the same time. They implement "hypertriangular" sweep for the slower higher-feedback setting to optimize it for slow wide sweeps. The 6-chip issue, however, includes a design tweak that is unique and brilliant. It has what amounts to a lowpass filter on the LFO, such that, at speeds greater than 1.5hz, it starts to smudge/slur the waveform, and reduce its sweep width, automatically optimizing sweep for faster speeds.
My own best phaser score was a Pearl PH-44 that I got for $25. The PH-44 is a 6-stager with separate fast and slow speeds and ramp-up/ramp-down, in addition to adjustable width, feedback, and initial phase shift. It doesn't do the hypertriangular thing, but you can't have everything.
This one is a reissue. (Status led). I've got 3 of them from the seventies, 2 red and one orange, bought them in the 90's for almost nothing, they are like new, they sound great but not one sounding like the other !
Thanks! I really feel like this one was destined for me. I can't imagine it sounding any sweeter, and whenever you bring a pedal back from the dead, it makes you appreciate it a little more.
@@StompboxBreakdown I understand.. It's very interesting idea. Maybe because in such cases you are not like ordinary User, but Creator. So there's a part of you in this pedal now!
Loved everything about this video, killer jams, just really dug those! And the pedal exploration was awesome. This was the quintessential Stompbox Breakdown form and brand, spot on, really loved it, and it’s the kind of video I keep coming back for! Best wishes for 2023 and thanks for all the great 2022 content! 🤘😌🎸
My V4 had a "volume drop" thing (which they fixed in the nano version - I should have bought that, but it doesn't look as cool - & I'm extremely shallow like that). Analog Man still does a mod for that. With all the money you saved, you can totally swing that.
I got my first one for 5$ and my second one was 110$ my first one had a broken color switch and worked whenever it felt like it and Ive longed for one since and finally just got one again best phaser on the planet it goes faster with the color switch off I gave my new version small stone with the swirly font to my friend Trent who I used to trade my old small stone phaser back and forth with I also have a way broken small clone that I can't fix because whoever had it before put in random parts it seems to try and fix it would love to hear a comparison to the other stone phasers hell get a behringer vintage phaser and compare it too everyone says they sound alike but it sounds like an entirely different filter to me like a bandpass instead of lowpass plus it has a huge volume drop along it's sweep
I would love to get some pedal repair tips and tricks from you. A video of that would be awesome ! I recently scored a Digitech Black 13 that needs a capacitor and a diode replacement. Sadly the broken parts are beyond recognition (the capacitor probably a 22uF50 but the diode could be anything). However, it is hard to find reliable schematics for modern pedals online. How do you approach issues like that ? Keep up the good work !
Ooh, nice grab with that pedal! I plan on doing a pedal repair episode at some point, probably with that PH-1r. The good thing about full-sized electrical components is that their intended value should be right on them, either literally, or with a code of some sort. The capacitor value sounds about right, and with diodes, it's probably either a 1N4148 or a rectifier or Schottky diode. With those, you can replace like with like, just make sure they're orientated the right way. Same with the capacitors, there's a side with a line, that needs to stay the same with the replacement. If I can't find a schematic online and the part is missing/burned/etc, there's usually a facebook group or subreddit where people who have the same pedal may be willing to read the value of theirs for you. There is a very active Digitech FB group where I bet you'll find some assistance. Thanks for watching, and I'll get to work on that PH-1r video!
Great pedal. I had one the same as this, sold it and was lucky enough to be able to later buy it back. I've recently fallen in love with it all over again, using it in the loop of an LS2 for clean blend. Speaking of which, maybe you could do a video on the wonders and myriad uses of the mighty LS2. It's the least boring boring pedal ever.
Glad you were able to reconnect with your Small Stone. I have to admit I haven’t used an LS-2 for much other than pedal demo stuff. What other ways do you use it?
@@StompboxBreakdown it can be used as an A/B switch for either inputs or outputs, as a loop selector, as an active clean boost or cut, or as a mixer. The A+B Mix > Bypass mode lets you blend two different chains in parallel, or if one chain has its pedals turned off/nothing connected to that loop, that channel becomes a clean signal you can blend with the other channel. I run all of my modulation effects in one loop and use the LS2 as a clean blend. Having just typed all of this out, I'm now wondering about putting different combinations of od/distortion/fuzz in parallel to see what sounds i can create. It's a pedal full of crazy possibilities if you have the time, patience and patch cables to experiment.
@@scottishgentlemen6038 Ok, cool. After thinking about it, I had been using it as a wet/dry switch for my synth pedal for a short while. I think if I were going to do a loop-type pedal, it might be the EHX Tri Parallel Mixer, because the EQ options on the loops sounds really interesting to me. Like, to have a shade of a deep delay dialed in really dark, then another loop with chorus, etc. Maybe a two-fer video. We'll have to see. Right now I have so many pedals on my desk that I'm meaning to do video for, but I keep getting pulled away by dayjob/life things.
I have a question for you. I have a Boss Katana that has a power amp input. What pedals can I connect to this input? What pedals are actually a preamp? Can a TS be considered a preamp?
Basically the signal going into the power amp input should be fully cooked and just needing to be made louder. There are preamp pedals, and you could consider the TS9 a preamp pedal, but I think you’d still want some more amp character in there. I mean, if it sounds good then that’s the end of the question right there, but I remember playing around with an old Fender amp with a power amp in, and the only thing that sounded good going in there was the line out of another amp
I live the small stone. But my luck has been bad… I had an old Russian big box but I literally ran it over with my car. I replaced it with a nano small stone which I liked. But that one broke. I haven’t replaced it yet.
Always loved the sound of the OG Small Stone but mine had a ludicrous volume drop and sounded like frying bacon when engaged. Don't know if the circuit changed from mine to the one you have; I had the old Orange/Black print version.
Mmmmmmm bacon. I’ve seen a few different circuit boards on these, even with the LED. I think the early ones (and a lot of early EHX pedals) were just not that great as matching levels. I also wonder if it’s a shielding or aged capacitor issue causing the fizzle noise.
