Small Stone vs. Bad Stone - Electro Harmonix Phaser Shootout 

One of the best product demos I've seen. So many people seem more interested in showing their playing skills that they mask the actual sounds of the pedal. Subscribed!

I think what you're hearing from the Bad Stone when feedback is full up is self oscillation, which can be cool as a sound source for experimental stuff ;)

Small stone - feel like the phaser effect is part of the sound. Bad stone - the phaser effect is above the sound, kinda separate and cold.

I prefer the bad stone and the manual switch is such a plus point. Good video. Thanks.

Great video. I've always been a fan of the Small Stone, and this video demonstrates why.

excellent demonstration in my opinion the bad stone has the same as the small stone but improved, this video helped me a lot to decide for the BS thank you very much the truth was undecided

Great review, thanks, man!

Thanks for another cool pedal video.

Adding reverb/delay to these pedals made all the difference in the world

Small stone has such a nice colour to it. Rich and full. Bad stone is OK, but no cigar...

thanks for the comparison. going with the bad stone.

Very nice comparison. Thank you.

Hi. What of those pedals sounds better with distortion the Bad Stone or the Small Stone? Thanks

I love my Small Stone, but I keep the Bad Stone on my board because it’s a little easier to dial in subtle tones. But down side is that my Bad Stone picks up radio noise, so I always have to keep a noise gate on.

what did you play when you added delay? sounded pretty cool

Very good video. What delay did you use?

Both nice pedals!

I'm currently looking into the SmallStone nano vs the Badstone to see if either will do the trick to replace my big box US Smallstone which has a larger sweep range it seems than the nano SSt. Anywho, the vid was kinda helpful on some level, but as YvanAndrew said in a below post, in this vid, the SmallStone nano colour switch is the feedback switch feeding back part of the the phase signal back to the Smallstone input to be filtered again when switched up/on, hence the more pronounced effect with the colour switch up.... AllaboutafriendONLINE said he can't see himself using the colour FEEDBACK switch on with the small stone ... ... but compared "Smallstone colour off" with the Badstone "FEEDBACK or COLOUR on full" for most of the comparison - that like comparing the Smallstone colour/feedback OFF to badstone colour/Feedback ON. To fairly compare the 2 on similar setting the Feedback on the Badstone should be completely off when the Smallstone has the colour switch off. Not all pedals should be tested with the "All knobs at 12 O'clock" approach and this is one of them. I'd like to see these compared with SSt colour/feedback=off vs BSt feeback=off at different rate speeds and then the same for the SSt colour/feedback=on vs BSt Feedback at 3 O'clock-ish at different rates... for a fair comparison of the 2 pedals. P.S. with the SmallStone nano, when colour is switched on the rate seems to halve in speed - weird. So if you do a comparison between SSt colour/feedback= on and BSt feedback =almost full, the rate knob positions would need to be different to match rates. I did enjoy the vid despite the above ^^ =)

Nice demo. I like the Bad Stone, more versatility.

To me Small Stone simplicity and sound beats Bad Stone's additional features...

Bad Stone is more vocal sounding, another great vid. 👍

Small Stone is 4 stage phaser, Bad Stone is 6 stage, FYI

i got the bad stone and it's a ton of fun.

With the colour switch down and fairly high rate on the Small Stone it sounds like a cool tremolo!

Testing with different rates and feedbacks is not a fair comparison. I prefer Bad Stone for bass when demo’d properly. I think a brighter phaser for guitar works better.

I also noticed the "you get what you pay for" part when i bought the bad stone XD But I do think adding a noise gate before the phaser might make the weird sounds you get when taking it to the limit go away. It seems to be "phasing" the background noise and boosting it quite badly. Also, I like better the bad stone cause you seem to be able to dial the small stone if you take a bit of a time and use a booster, so in my opinion it kinda icludes the other one and has more variety.

my small stone has no hiss

Nice. Does the small stone have a clean sound or does it sound gritty like some do?

Both, totally both

getting a small stone tomorrow, the art on the one i'm getting is different thou

Small stone for me. Also the MXRs, mooer plus the Blood Moon.

now play with them both

The small stone sounds much more open. The bad stone adds some kind of band-pass effect...

don't found both EHX models to be very hissy/sweepy, in a bad way.

What pedalboard is that exactly? That is the perfect size for what I need.

3:32-3:40 "I've made up my mind Don't need to think it over"

I don't mind a noisy pedal for dubby electronic music 😜

Mike, by your ears, what phaser in your opinion was used on the song Point of View by Silverchair?

Perhaps the "Bad Stone" should have been called the "Not quite as good Stone"...

SS sounds drier and BS sounds wetter to me, almost like there's a slight chorus added

“80 year old pedals” You need to run those numbers again…

You kept the rate up too high on the bad stone

which one for Pink Floyd sound? 🙏

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