Shout out to the great Electronic Projects for Musicians book, Phase shifter/ Vibrato. 5 stage ( well five CLM6000 opto isolators anyway). I absolutely loved mine. I built every project in the book except the chromatic tone tuner and the little solid state bench amp. Phase shifter was number one! The vibrato can go ultra slow and it can be downright evil sounding. Tom Oberheim also invented the Ring Modulator, aka Maestro RM1 for his college thesis. That pedal is pure gold for experimental musicians. The RM1's control voltage input ( CV-in ) was my introduction to electronic music and multimedia. I used $5 Coron DS7 drum synth , a Yamaha Electone B4CR organ I found on a pile of dirt , and made countless tape loops on my Wollensak table top portable reel to reel recorders, copping drum beats from records. Ah' the days when gear was utility and could be rummaged together.
Phasers are cool and all, but after watching these jams for a few years, I'd really like to see an in-depth rundown of how you mic and process the drums. They sound so PHAT with so few mics. Way to go guys!
I love the phaser on love comes tumbling by u2. The edge. Very sweet. Thanks for sharing the dod 201, yellow box. My first effect, never sounds anything but great.
My dad is from Rochester, NY and didn't live too far from where Keith developed the phase 90. In fact, my dad has one of the original models when he was building them out of his house.
Michael Einziger from incubus is my favourite phaser user….the way he combines it with delay and volume swells on Pardon Me is pure art. Of course on morning view he went to town on it also.
The melody is a blend of "Hot Blooded", "My Woman From Tokyo", and "Third Stone From the Sun". I would've called it "My Third Hot Blooded Stone From Tokyo". The Date is April 16th. 😜😂😂 I'll show myself out. "Yield" was a great record! For me it was their return to form established on "Ten" and "Versus". I would rank them: "Ten", "Yield"/"Versus" (based on my mood for the day) then "Binaural" then all others. (Haven't heard the new record so not sure where that fits.) I couldn't stand "Vitology" though. Hate me if you want, but that's how I feel. That thing at the end sounded more like a Ring Modulator than a Phaser.
The Pearl PH-03 phaser was one of my first ever pedals. It's great because it has its own distinct voice and great tweaking potential. Downsides, as usual with phasers, a slight volume drop and a noticable swoosh even when you don't play. I'd never get rid of it!
So grateful to the guy that sold me an old Phase 45 in the late 80s for £14 when I told him I wanted a wobbly organ kind of sound like JH: I didn't know what a univibe was but the P45 actually nails it 90%
I was 17 in 1975 when I bought A Used Gibson SG... as Listening, Phase shift is Def. different than A Chorus! I bought A Smallstone Phase shift and Loved It! In H.S. Played In a Battle of the bands and did the song " HEY YOU " By BTO....... Great Phase shifter song!!! That Song Nailed the Contest For us!!!
'Cow Says Mu' really captures the harsh realities of being out there on the streets, passing out Phasor literature in a t-shirt that says 'It's only a Phase', whilst listening to Faith No More's 'Kindergarten' on repeat, lonely night after lonely night.
Same here. “What’s going on with the ‘Mayonaise’ solo?” “That’s a Phase 90. It’s also in David Gilmour’s rig after Wish You Were Here.” “Please take my money.”
Instant Classic episode! 😁 Shortest jam ever, new stinger, new t-shirt, boxes galore and Nick sarcasm level 12. (Oh and very informative and historically relevant)Great job guys!!
I just wanted to say thank you for making these Josh! I love your show, and I have learned so much from it. I would love to come say hi and meet you some day. Thanks again to you, your family and your crew!
Yield is my favorite PJ record. Oh man, so good. And you’re totally right with Given to Fly’s phaser guitar. My favorite phaser use was Korn on Follow the leader’s tracks. They really took it to a new level.
It counts as the best phaser in my opinion. I love all of them really, so I use an optical phaser with Vibrato option, and Asymmetrical/Symmetrical switch, with 4 speeds, from normal to Ring Mod, etc. I really dig phasers.
The 'Space Station Boardwalk' melody is incredibly similar to the 'Born on the Bayou' guitar solo by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Real close, real cool. Also, grew up with the more compact Pearl Phaser in the house.
I've been playing for fifty years this year {2022}. The best sounding phaser I have ever heard was an early Ross. The effect is heard, but not harsh or over the top, very musical and lush.
You missed one of my favorite phasers. I think it was made by Maestro, and was a wedge of aluminum and black plastic. The pots were side mounted with wheels instead of knobs so that you could adjust them with your feet on the fly. In the days before midi or control pedals, this was a great idea. The two adjustments were speed and "balls".
29:00 Yield is one of PJ's best. Was well out of high school (and college) by that time. It has real vigor and power, like Mudhoney's "Tomorrow Hit Today," also from '98 (the last gasp of "grunge" before the label got somewhat retired, maybe perhaps).
Always on my pedal board, realy cooll effect. I have several: Phase 45, 90, 95, Morley Phaser One, Fender Phaser (reissue), Lost Highware Phaser, Ibanez FP-777 (reissue) and Estradin Effect-2 (USSR, 1987). Love Phase 95, it sounds extremely good to my ear.
i've been watching this channel more and more over the past few months. I like the content a lot, but the more i watch and get the crews sense of humour, it's even sillier. The whole 'he has the box' and other little weird jokes are cracking me up. thanks for the content and the silliness
Gary Numan used the MXR Phase 100 loads on The Pleasure Principle and Telekon, mainly on a Polymoog, beginning of "Cars", for example and the warbly middle bit as well as at the instrumental ending....
you guys should do a modern/vintage phaser episode! let me explain. warm audio mutation phasor ii, fender waylen jennings phaser, maestro orbit phaser, and the JHS/Ross Phaser have all come out in the last year. WE GOTTA HAVE THEM ALL TOGETHER. also mostly because i wanna know which to buy but there’s no shootout videos of them lol
the Small Stone is great , isnt it? i didnt like it much on guitars but then i started using it on organ/synths and thats where i personally make it work,,, wish i had gotten the 12 stage moog phaser when i was able to,,, but oh well
Eddie Van Halen has been such a huge influence on me. I really love that one of the key ingredients to his sound debuted the day before my day of birth. I was born on August 16th, 1974 :D
Late comment. But i'm amazed how big was the phaser sound in the seventies. You can hear a great phaser tunes on the 1975 Invisible's Durazno Sangrando. Great record from a great argentinian band.
Enjoyed this, as I always do. Seeing that Kent logo connected some dots for me. My main, hot-rodded acoustic decades hence was a Kent, with that exact logo! It was a cheapo, but really nice, and had pickups and mics and switches added because who cares if you ruin a Kent? More on topic, I remember Leo Kottke using phaser a lot once he started making records with bands and singing. As a purist at the time, I was not pleased. It actually sounds pretty cool. I wonder which one he used? Woulda been 1974-ish. It's funny, for me now, that phaser sound is exactly what I want to hear if I need to hear phaser - clean, slow, and nicely whooshy.
I occasionally here people say good things but I'm curious why you say that? I inherited my brother's DS7 because he bought most his gear as a teen obsessed with nu-metal - in fact it's probably here somewhere - but I don't remember ever feeling like it was the distortion for me
@@presinald i love the design of the tone lok pedals. The Boss-like layout with the pop out knobs and switch for extra modes is incredible. Wasn't a fan of the DS7, but love the DE7 and PM7. They had a couple of great gems!
Tisk tisk RU-vid suggestions algorithm. I love phasers, and JHS pedals and videos. Why didn't you show this to me a month and a half ago? I'll let it slide. ... this time.
I took my Yield cd into Spier Music in Garland, TX when I was in high school and asked them how to get the tone from Faithfull. They sold me a tone-lok tube screamer, that stayed on my board all through college. No ragrets.
omg, you bring back HUGE memories there!!!! do you remember Viakon village? there was a guitar store in there that had a lot of less-desirable vintage fender guitars.
I’m genuinely surprised that the maestro stage phaser was not mentioned. Bob Moog designed it and it’s one of the best phasers of all time. The foot dials alone make it completely unique. But it is also one of the best sounding vintage phasers hands-down.
I had one in the mid ‘70s. Having the foot dials on the sides (left side was depth, right side was speed as I recall) was pretty cool, and the entire housing was the effect on-off switch.
New to the show and I love it! Love the shirt, I gotta have it! The song that came to my mind, was also "My Woman From Tokyo!" ALSO How come you've missed the Foxx Phaser Brian May used aaaaaaaa. I believe, the famous example of it's use would be on the intro for "Keep Yourself Alive." Also, Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption's" solo is a great use of a Phaser! Cheeeeers!!!
That's awesome, I was just getting back into Yield and watching some of their old concerts. That album is definitely their high point in my opinion. And by high point, I mean that they were just making a really good record as a band again instead of experimenting or reacting to their last record. Really good band with some flaws, but no one can deny their best work.
One of my favorite phaser songs is "Love 'Em and Leave 'Em" by KISS, from the Rock And Roll Over album (1976). I don't know exactly what phaser was used on Ace Frehley's guitar, but I know it was added after at the mixing stage, and at was at least a 6-stage phaser, at minimum. It was probably an Eventide Instant Phaser, or a Mu-Tron. Phaser was all over 70s guitar (and keyboards, bass, drums, and even vocals), just like chorus in the 80s. To me, it's about as representative of the decade as Evel Knievel, leisure suits, and Farrah Fawcett.
great episode... thanx! i love phasers (for synths as well) ! one of my favourite efffects. (own an old mxr 100 and a rare pearl phaser ph-03 (smaller brother of the one you showed) my dream was always a mutron bi phase (behringer cloned it these days) nice t shirt ..!
I was watching this video and I thought to myself: with the amount of pedals JHS has on those shelfs they can probably open an interactive museum about pedals? That would be awesome!
I was expecting to see my favorite pedal (and in my opinion beats most of those listed) the Morley Pro Phasor. The automatic mode is cool, but being able to manually control the phase is awesome, it sounds so good.
I have that huge Fender Phaser with the big wheel on top so you can change the speed by foot. I mostly bought, because it looked cool, but it also sounds nice and is disco for the feet.
I've got the Traffic Light Trio and absolutely love it. (really, really need a shirt though...) It is incredible to see how early on pedals like a phaser were so popular to build and improve.
Mike Einziger from Incubus always had some amazing phaser tones. Especially on the Make Yourself album. Oh yeah and Eddie Van Halen eruption. Mike drop...
Josh, I was gifted an Ampeg “Phazzer” around 1981 -when I started playing guitar (yes I’m showing my age-lol). It had been water damaged in a music store and was going to be tossed so a friend of the family gave it to me. My dad paid for it to be repaired. It along with an Ibanez Sonic Distortion became my first 2 pedals. I wish I still had them both (traded them off like an idiot in the mid 80’s). The Ampeg “Phazzer” was a large wedge type pedal with one control. It had a unique character that I still remember to this day. I’m gonna assume it was pretty rare? I really enjoyed this video even though I know it’s only a phase😀