Fender Waylon Jennings Phaser Demo | First Look

An outlaw country king is honored with a full-featured phaser that dishes his signature swoosh and many more modulation moods.

Few artists can lay claim to defining the sound of a genre, but Waylon Jennings is the undisputed outlaw of outlaw country. Defining a tone all his own drenched in a signature sweeping phase-shifting effect, Waylon toured through the most prominent phaser effect pedals that the ‘70s and ‘80s had to offer. And now the Waylon Jennings Phaser pedal takes you along for that same ride by emulating the stomp boxes he used to forge his own path.

Building on Fender’s original four-stage phaser circuit developed in the 1970’s, the Waylon Jennings Phaser provides three distinct flavors of phasing by switching between two, four, or six phase stages. When combined with the Range and Feedback controls, these three phase voices cover the gamut of phasing tones used by Jennings on stage and in studio. Skip right to the good stuff and turn on the Sweet Switch to jump right to the “sweet spot” of clean signal mixed with phase-shifting tones, perfect for adding the right amount of flavor to your favorite cowboy chords. Whether you’re looking to nail Waylon’s signature tone, or find a new one all your own, the Waylon Jennings Phaser can dial in just the right phase for you.

FEATURES:
•Original, all-analog Fender circuit replicates vintage phaser tones and beyond
•Phase Switch selects between 2, 4, and 6 stages of phasing
•Sweet Switch jumps right to the “sweet spot” of phaser tones
•Road ready aluminum chassis
•Top Mount Input/Output Jacks and True-Bypass Switching
•Powered by 9-Volt Battery or Center Negative AC Adaptor (Not Included)

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00:00 - Playing Intro
01:44 - John Bohlinger Intro
02:22 - Signal Chain
02:53 - Phaser History
03:27 - Fender Waylon Jennings Phaser Specs
03:52 - Phase Switch Demo
04:37 - Feedback Knob
05:14 - Rate Knob
06:17 - Range Knob
06:45 - Sweet Spot Switch
09:04 - 1955 Fender Strat & Overdrive
11:28 - Slide Demo
12:29 - 6-Stage Phaser Demo with Rolling Stones riffing
13:21 - 2-Stage Phaser Demo with Bob Marley riffing
14:20 - Final Thoughts
14:52 - Playing Outro

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[MrMudEagle]

Waylon's guitar playing was criminally underrated.

[rodbelding]

Honestly it's long overdue that Waylon started getting recognition from Fender.

[DoobsMcJubes]

Can we get a John rig rundown? His guitars are super interesting! Love them

[DatMetalBoi]

I'm not even that big of a country fan and I could legitimately see myself purchasing this pedal and using it on my board

[beargonefission]

Dang it, Bollinger! I was just watching for idle curiosity and now I really want this.

[davidsummerville]

Gritty phaser. Cool sounding pedal, it should be popular given time. 😎🤓

[haramismusicalhardware]

John, your playing is always great, but this one really made me smile.

[Rygo-wkjm]

Beautiful and dynamic playing good sir! That’s a wonderful pedal!

[sdingeswho]

Interesting and versatile phaser 🙂! One observation, though: In spite of the “Instant Waylon” switch (Sweet Spot), I think the plain-old 2-stage phase, with some minor knob-tweaks, and from the Telecaster, of course, is the closest to Ol’ Waylon 😎🎸🤠❤️!

The Strat sounded great through this pedal, too 🙂, although it doesn’t have the edge like the Tele does, naturally.

“It’s the same old tune, phaser and guitar — where do we take it from here?” 🤠🎸😎 Yee-hah! 😁

[RandallBrownStuff]

Such a versatile pedal, and a great run-through from John.

[chinchilla]

Waylon’s voice is timeless and in a class all its own. American as Sam Cooke, apple pie & lager beer.

[BAND-MAID-USA]

Killer demo. Never seen anyone play Ain’t Talkin Bout Love, like that either.

[jerryvahnknight]

John, you slayed this!! Sounded so fantastic!

[jasonlee]

Sounds like the phaser that was built in to those old Peavey amps….yeah, I’m suddenly in the market for a new Phase pedal

[gamjammer]

Nice pedal and great playing as usual from John .

[billavonda]

Great job John as always! I liked how you starting moving a bit like Keith when you played Beast of Burden

[DHRGrafix]

Sweet! This has inspired me to put my Phase 90 back on my board.

[Jbutler]

Waylon introduced the phaser into country music which gave it an outlaw sound, thanks for sharing😅😅

[ivorharden]

I love a bit of Waylon. That's coming from a metal head.

[JayGuitars]

Nice work JB.
G’day from Australia 🇦🇺