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.
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.
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!
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.
'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.
My favorite phasers are the EHX Small Stone and the SCHULTE COMPACT PHASING A from Germany. Both are great. Maybe I should say, I use them with synthesizers, not with guitars.
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.
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.
Tisk tisk TH-cam 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.
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....
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 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!
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%
So I’m going from a multi effects unit with amp sim and trying to get into a pedalboard and amp for church and watching your videos makes me think I need everything
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.”
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!
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.
You’re doing pretty well for a guy from Alabama with a bunch of broken phasers! Enjoyed this one. Entertaining and Educational. Edutainment. Thank You!
I just ordered a $99 series Phaser. If I hate it, I'm sending you some Colorado hail. We have plenty this year, just ask the garden. . . Cheers from Denver, home of the NBA CHAMPION Nuggets. . . blah blah blah. . .
i love my phase 90...i use it very sparingly in on-for-a-sec-or-two then off, or maybe for a section of a song. i learned how to use it from eddie van halen. i have some other phasers, but the phase 90 is always my go to. i love it because it has only an on/off switch and a single knob. simplicity. i know you say don't do this, but i think it actually works better before a fuzz box.
Dude, you have the best excuse for buying pedals. You can tell your significant other that you are doing research/ reverse engineering for your business, and hey, sometimes there is probably a little bit of truth in that!
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).
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
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.
"Traffic Light Trio", sounds like it would have been an obscure 80's indie band from an equally obscure small town. And I bet they'd have used phaser on their hit song.
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".
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.
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.
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.
My first ever pedal was an Oberheim Phasor.... long. since. gone --and so I am sad. But at least I can say I played one; it definitely had that pixie dust magic.
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.
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.
32:33 ring modding a most muted & phaized Behind The Nut Strum - Phasever ;-) Sounding like the Dead in 1972, Oregon...Sunshine at the Ice Cream Phasery!
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...
Oh, the Phasor 490 is kind of the color of dried blood, and it's hot. I guess it's Hot Blooded. But, then there was lick that probably should have been done on the Small Stone, because it was reminiscent of a certain Hendrix tune.
my favorite episode - one of the greatest effects ever, things you can find and afford demoed with great playing : guitar bass and drums - and you are so funny
17:15 MUTRON PHASE II was great. [ edit, I really was ogling the MUTRON BI-PHASE for over $100 that he had behind a glass case] I bought my PHASE II for fifteen bucks at a Hollywood guitar store back in 1985. I saw it by the door as I was leaving the store after handing the guy twenty bucks for a few Marshall schematics so I could convert my Sound City 120 into a Marshall. Best thing I ever did, building that amp. The Sound City had so many mustard caps with it's active tone controls, I didn't even need to acquire any parts to make it a 1969 Marshall. Sounded like Angus Young. It sounded great with the Rat pedal. ATTENTION Sound City owners. No need to gut your amp. I've since found the Sound City 120's sound great as-is with a Rat ( "white background" logo, which is same as wide rat , or square Rat with black background logo...all with a scripted word in logo, 'Proco" I think...just watch Josh's Rat video.). SOUND CITY 120's benefit with the Trainwreck Type-I post phase inverter master volume. On the 50 Watt Sound City's simply cascade plate cap from CH1 V1a preamp plate circuit (post plate cap) into CH2 grid ( basically early Mesa Boogie style) TAKE HIGH VOLTAGE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS.
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.
The hidden track was COMEDY GOLD. When Josh started playing the Sweet Home Alabama riff, I just lost it completely. Holy shit. Hardest I've laughed in a while.
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
Phase Shifters hit their peak popularity long before Van Halen appeared. I lived through the 70's - Phasers were all over funk and disco. The Electro Harmonix Small Stone was actually the first effect pedal I ever got when I was 14 in 1977. The Tube Screamer didn't even exist yet. You could make an argument that VH was responsible for a *renewed* popularity of it though, because before him, people had started to look on the Phaser with the same embarrassed disdain they held for Chorus pedals after the 80s.
That was my first pedal and I liked it a lot but for some stupid reason sold it. Years later got another one but that one didnt sound as good. Im pretty sure they were both Made In Japan.
@@standinsilence Same thing for me... this was my first modulation, sold it not thinking it was anything special... eventually got a PH-3 and hated it..... eventually found one for sale and it was as good as I remembered....
@@standinsilence nice.... never heard of that model, I like that the PH-2 doesn't really sound like an old school traditional phaser be that a phase 90 or Small Stone but still has a real interesting sound to it.....
Josh! I love the channel. Thank you for telling me to keep the original enclosure for my V1 Big Muff Triangle. Loved this video. Phasers are my favorite pedals and effect. btw..... I have the box for every pedal I own except my fist DS1 and the big muff 😊
Wouldn't have been surprised if this was just 30 mins of phase 90 love
I'm literally paused at 0:01 right now. If this is 30 mins of phase 90, I'll hurl.
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.
Logan Robichaud - Phase 90 is the EVH secret weapon.
the ehx version...i use two of them in stereo
MXR Phase 90, the Zen pedal!
Josh is one of the coolest nerds EVER... All of these historical category deep-dives are just golden.
I’ve watched bout 60 of his videos and he’s never boring. Deadpan but extremely detailed, legend
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.
You beat me. I definitely heard Hot Blooded and Third Stone From The Sun".
How about "Children of the Sun" Billy Thorpe
"No One Knows" from Queens of the Stone Age also has similar riff.
Yep, I was hearing Hot Blooded too.
"My Woman From Tokyo" was the first to jump into my head. All of the others you listed make perfect sense too. Combined title is perfect.
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!
they use color boxes on them pretty sure idk wha else
Just wanted to take a second to appreciate Nick's drumming! I'm not a drummer, but he is killer even when playing softly, very good dynamics
After watching this video I wanted to write the exact same thing as you
Also that phantom bass player..
Damn right! He’s very sympathetic to the guitar.
Where is the Nicks drumming sucks t-shirt. Or Nick cant play the skinz
He is very good at serving the song, and very good at coming up with creative, interesting parts
The drums sound remarkable this week. ✊🏻
When you are Jimi Hendrix the world is your pedalboard, that's why his pedals were laying down on the floor 😎
I was going to say stage. But all the world's a stage anyway.
He didn't assemble his pedals. He merely appeared on stage and the pedals came rushing to worship at his feet as he played.
@@DeadWhiteButterflies That's not strictly true. He had magnets in his boots.
@@TheRealcdawg22 …And all those people with guitars are merely players.
@@edryba4867 ...performers and portrayers...
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.
I was getting JHS Show withdrawals this week.... it’s all good now guys!
I'm so glad I rewound to find out what "you know who you are" was about. Josh helps make my day again.
When can we expect the episode “why you need a bit crusher” 😝
“Why you need a random octave noise generator, with .15 of a second looping, granular delay...”
Part 1.
Uni -vibe!! And the MXR phase 45 and Electro Harmonix Small Stone!!
'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.
Kingdom!!’ Kindergarten... 😆
Or selling "The Big Issue" in Glasgow. Beam me up, Scotty!
My favorite phasers are the EHX Small Stone and the SCHULTE COMPACT PHASING A from Germany. Both are great. Maybe I should say, I use them with synthesizers, not with guitars.
WURDZ IZ HARD. Another classic.
I need that jingle to follow me around.
I love the jingles. I literally look at one of my pedals with a box and sing “he has the box!”
“... people were obviously not focussed on remembering anything...”
“both my bad stones are broken”
one might even say they’re both... bad
One might even say... He has no stones.
One might also say they're basically stones now, bad ones at that
No list of vintage Phasers can be complete without the Compact Phasing "A"
“Smell the box. Love the box” - Josh Scott 😂
He smells the box!
Full Spinal Tap.
You can smell the 70's in them!
I love smelling the box...
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.
Well, if the Univibe counts as a phaser, then I would have to say that Robin Trower’s “Bridge of Sighs” is my favorite phaser song of all time.
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.
yep, bit weird to not mention Trower in a phaser vid
Tisk tisk TH-cam 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.
Definitely laying down some huge WEEN vibes w/ some of these tunes. All hail Boognish.
Mach 10 at sudden speed!
@@Andrew-bn7rr hey dude: He's the stallion!
Mister Would You Please Help My Pony?
They luuuuv phaser; I luuuuv them
The univibe is my favorite pedal ever, there's nothing like that sound specially in the hands of Hendrix.
agreed, i wish i could just travel back and time and get it when it was a reasonable price
@@growskullThere are so many clones of the original circuit available on the market nowadays for reasonable prices
No Mu-Tron Bi-Phase? A missed opportunity for the “overly complicated” phaser portion of the show. Now I has a sad.
Just wait for a modern episode! I own a 2006 Infinitphase. Talk about complicated!
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....
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 would love an episode dedicated to the tone lok series. They're my favorite pedals ever!
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!
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%
Yes the 45 is a 2-stage phaser which makes it sound more univibe like!
So I’m going from a multi effects unit with amp sim and trying to get into a pedalboard and amp for church and watching your videos makes me think I need everything
the guitar solos in Siamese Dream, that was the first time a phaser caught my ears
Great example, the Cherub Rock solo is stratospheric!
@@stuffandjunkanduhh5049 good to know
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.”
@@stuffandjunkanduhh5049 the guitar intro to Cherub Rock has some phasing too though, doesn't it? (Before stamping on the Big Muff)
@@stuffandjunkanduhh5049 I think it's both at times! They must have mixed Phase 90, Mutron Bi-phase and EHX Electric Mistress with different combos!
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!
Can we get an episode where, during the jams, instead of focusing on the pedal, you focus on Nick's face while he plays?
NickCam should be a thing.
That's premium content for Patreon.
Only Fans...
@@mxdbld7100 What's that?
@@christopherfettes390 oh you
my first exposure: 1972, Paul's Mall, Boston, Miles Davis Band, Reggie Lucas, guitar into Morley (big box) phaser. mind blowing, as it were.
"The Jello is alive" is now my favorite jam!
@@celephais5748 Haha!
@@celephais5748 Jello is LIFE!
21:09
That melody is “Deep Purple - Woman From Tokyo “
Dang I got here fast uh high everybody
Im half way through my joint, so im getting there🙆
i’ve found my people
Not looking forward to Tuesday, I work in a weed store. LOTS of specials! And old people bitching. My generation sucks.
We don’t hear from Nick often, but when we do it’s usually worth the wait.
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.
Yep, sure do. Never spent a lot of time there but I remember it.
You’re doing pretty well for a guy from Alabama with a bunch of broken phasers!
Enjoyed this one. Entertaining and Educational. Edutainment.
Thank You!
Favorite phaser user? Waylon Jennings. No question. Favorite song? THIS TIME on the live album. No question.
Agreed. Love Waylon's tone and playing in general. Transcends genre
Favorite use of phaser is probably the Meters’ cover of ‘Down by The River’. Wish I knew what they used...that big slow shift they use is the best ❤️
Anthony Jackson’s bass part on The O’Jay’s “For The Love Of Money.”
I played the just a phase clip for my wife, she agreeing and laughing all at the same time. Brilliant and worth the watch!
Incubus’ “Morning View” might have my favorite phaser sounds. I think he had one Phase 90 and two Boss PH-1s at that time.
I just ordered a $99 series Phaser. If I hate it, I'm sending you some Colorado hail. We have plenty this year, just ask the garden. . . Cheers from Denver, home of the NBA CHAMPION Nuggets. . . blah blah blah. . .
Let's give Addison some love for always having the most delicious P bass tone every episode. EVERY ONE!!
I like the J-bass more… maybe because I have a BLONDE 1966 model.
i love my phase 90...i use it very sparingly in on-for-a-sec-or-two then off, or maybe for a section of a song. i learned how to use it from eddie van halen. i have some other phasers, but the phase 90 is always my go to. i love it because it has only an on/off switch and a single knob. simplicity. i know you say don't do this, but i think it actually works better before a fuzz box.
Space Station Boardwalk reminded me of My Woman From Tokyo.
What @Jeremy Cole said
Same, also a little bit like Hot Blooded by Foreigner
Dude, you have the best excuse for buying pedals. You can tell your significant other that you are doing research/ reverse engineering for your business, and hey, sometimes there is probably a little bit of truth in that!
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).
26:50 worth the price of admission. I wept. Tears of joy. And I saw transcendental square waves.
Josh: No new phasers
Me who owns a Small Stone: Oh... XD
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
Happy to see the PH10 here. This phaser is wonderful. So subtle and warm.
I think its crazy you didnt mention one of the best phasers ever made. The Moogerfooger MF-103.
I am always stoked on y’all drum sounds
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.
Plus one on this….super disappointed when my fav big chrome box didn’t make the episode. Maybe an all Tel-Ray/Morley episode?
I just got a morely dual bass wah and realized I've been sleeping on morley. Man they make some sweet stuff. Checking that phaser out now.
"Traffic Light Trio", sounds like it would have been an obscure 80's indie band from an equally obscure small town. And I bet they'd have used phaser on their hit song.
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".
I still have a mu-tron phaser. My dad brought it brand new when they came out back in the day. Glad you mentioned it.
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.
Stuck around for the hidden track, instantly regretted it. ;)
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.
Laughed through my nose on the synth joke. Well played👏🏼
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.
The dude with all of the vintage Maxon Ibanez 9 series pedals telling us we have an addiction😂
Pearl Phaser sounds incredible indeed
Yield was my first PJ record. Bought the CD the same day i bought my first distortion pedal - Danelectro Fab Tone. A seminal day for me.
I don't know about the Mutron II, but I thought the Mutron III was the classic auto-wah effect that Jerry Garcia used
You are correct. Mutron lll...very sensitive filter thingy
My first ever pedal was an Oberheim Phasor.... long. since. gone --and so I am sad. But at least I can say I played one; it definitely had that pixie dust magic.
Tom Oberheim❤️ is a legend!
I can't believe you went an entire half an hour without talking about Leslie at all. But that's okay, this too shall pass and we still love you
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 played the smaller Phaser. It was not as wide and still had the big Speed and Balls side wheels.
@@TheBigGuppy Yea those Speed & Balls controls are ace, not many have the lights working on them now though
I though he had one sitting in the background behind him. By his left elbow.
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.
The MP-1 is my all-time fave phase shifter!
Phaser might possibly be my favourite effect of all time. I'll have to check through my collection but I own at least 6 off the top of my head.
It's my favorite without a doubt
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.
32:33 ring modding a most muted & phaized Behind The Nut Strum - Phasever ;-) Sounding like the Dead in 1972, Oregon...Sunshine at the Ice Cream Phasery!
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...
Oh, the Phasor 490 is kind of the color of dried blood, and it's hot. I guess it's Hot Blooded. But, then there was lick that probably should have been done on the Small Stone, because it was reminiscent of a certain Hendrix tune.
Hidden Track Jam changed my life.
I might have found it very strange had I not been listening to Mr Bungle just before this.
my favorite episode - one of the greatest effects ever, things you can find and afford demoed with great playing : guitar bass and drums - and you are so funny
I like that you're so knowledgeable, and simultaneously such a goofball.
17:15 MUTRON PHASE II was great. [ edit, I really was ogling the MUTRON BI-PHASE for over $100 that he had behind a glass case] I bought my PHASE II for fifteen bucks at a Hollywood guitar store back in 1985. I saw it by the door as I was leaving the store after handing the guy twenty bucks for a few Marshall schematics so I could convert my Sound City 120 into a Marshall. Best thing I ever did, building that amp. The Sound City had so many mustard caps with it's active tone controls, I didn't even need to acquire any parts to make it a 1969 Marshall. Sounded like Angus Young. It sounded great with the Rat pedal. ATTENTION Sound City owners. No need to gut your amp. I've since found the Sound City 120's sound great as-is with a Rat ( "white background" logo, which is same as wide rat , or square Rat with black background logo...all with a scripted word in logo, 'Proco" I think...just watch Josh's Rat video.). SOUND CITY 120's benefit with the Trainwreck Type-I post phase inverter master volume. On the 50 Watt Sound City's simply cascade plate cap from CH1 V1a preamp plate circuit (post plate cap) into CH2 grid ( basically early Mesa Boogie style) TAKE HIGH VOLTAGE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS.
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.
The hidden track was COMEDY GOLD. When Josh started playing the Sweet Home Alabama riff, I just lost it completely. Holy shit. Hardest I've laughed in a while.
The modern MXR Phase 90 sounds pretty poor. I’ve seen a blog where a diode is clipped out and it smoothens it out to sound more like the original.
You are full on crazy and it's awesome.
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
Happy Birthday! I was born exactly 1 year before you! Cheers to Aug 16!
And Nate steals the show with ten words.
Or less. 😂😂😂
I had a Mu-Tron Phasor. Loved it. Wish I still had it. It actually went up in smoke, just like in the movies.
Nick’s color commentary is fantastic
One of my favorite phaser albums is "Innerspeaker" by Tame Impala (back when they were good).
What happened to them?
@@notapplicable328 He evolved and got better. Tame Impala is just as good as he was on the first two albums, he just dared to branch out a bit.
Always love your videos Josh, entertaining & educational👍🏻
I am loving this channel! So fortunate to be informed on so much history and information on guitar pedals...thank you!!!
Great episode. And Yield is absolutely one of the best albums. Side note, check out the Book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.
I would say Edward Van Halen and Peter Frampton had a lot to do with the popularity of Phasing. Lots of 70's country pickers used it too.
Phase Shifters hit their peak popularity long before Van Halen appeared. I lived through the 70's - Phasers were all over funk and disco. The Electro Harmonix Small Stone was actually the first effect pedal I ever got when I was 14 in 1977. The Tube Screamer didn't even exist yet. You could make an argument that VH was responsible for a *renewed* popularity of it though, because before him, people had started to look on the Phaser with the same embarrassed disdain they held for Chorus pedals after the 80s.
Edward van Halen LOL
"Mars Bound"- Dayyum!
The Boss PH-2 is probably one of my all time favorite phasers..... surprised it didn't even get an honorable to mention...
That was my first pedal and I liked it a lot but for some stupid reason sold it. Years later got another one but that one didnt sound as good. Im pretty sure they were both Made In Japan.
@@standinsilence Same thing for me... this was my first modulation, sold it not thinking it was anything special... eventually got a PH-3 and hated it..... eventually found one for sale and it was as good as I remembered....
@@MarcG28 I also had an old Ibanez(Maxon) PT-9 which was even better.
@@standinsilence nice.... never heard of that model, I like that the PH-2 doesn't really sound like an old school traditional phaser be that a phase 90 or Small Stone but still has a real interesting sound to it.....
It's such a 3d sound compared to a lot of other phasers, I bust it out from time to time
Josh! I love the channel. Thank you for telling me to keep the original enclosure for my V1 Big Muff Triangle. Loved this video. Phasers are my favorite pedals and effect.
btw..... I have the box for every pedal I own except my fist DS1 and the big muff 😊
“Wurds iz haaaaard.” 💀
These phasers really stunned me.