How Does A Phaser Pedal Work? - Filters and Frequencies

Ever look down at your phaser pedal and wonder just what's going on in there? No? Just me? Fair enough, but I got interested enough in these wonderful little pedals enough to dive deep into the world of all-pass filters and frequency generators to break it down for you.

Yeah, it's just a phase... but that's really all we need. episode

Chapters:
0:00 - Why a phaser episode?
1:35 - What does a phaser sound like?
1:55 - Sound Waves
4:04 - Intro to All-Pass Filters
6:35 - Differences in Phasers
7:54 - Closing Thoughts

[Matthew-hyv]

A channel for explaining pedals. Brilliant.

[JAMESBOND-kede]

Greetings from Buenos Aires...the best phaser analysis I've seen...also look at all your videos....the best analysis in years of effects I've seen...congratulations

[wesmitchem]

Hey man say what you want I love any Info you got keep up the good work I love all your videos so far

[Superphilipp]

Phantastic video, thank you so much!

I'm desperately looking for a video that explains the 4 different modes of the Phase 100 ... what do they actually change? Do they disable some of the 10 stages? Then what do the little circle drawings represent???

[stevekachinsky]

Thanks for taking the time to explain this! I'm wondering why although the target frequencies are pushed 90 degrees out of phase, "the remaining frequencies will be 180 degrees out of phase"? Another question I have; is the resistor and capacitor creating a low pass filter on the positive op amp input?

[JimBoom]

wow. your channel is great. perfect for us pedal nerds :) gonna check out the other videos as well. i loved to see the phaser effect on the white noise, helps to understand it. How did you you generate that white noise to use with the pedal? thanks in advance.

[maysboy]

Bought a vintage phaser pedal on temu to try and it didn’t turn on so I thought I’d learn more and find a good one

[nickg]

Your content is really cool! subscribed!

[Araqnidm]

Literally just finished re-watching Top Gun before putting this on. Eerie!

[Searchio]

Love Phasers. Had a couple till i bought the CrazyTube Cylone with all i like in one ...and sold others.

[March]

I thought it not too surprising that the posted comment “to much talking” included the misspelling of too. Some people is so unitcheecated.

[Ben-kftb]

aside from the fact that this video is amazing(seriously)… that phase pedal with manual mode — if it doesn’t already, it should have an expression pedal connection so you could phase wah… unless rhats already a thing …

[wesmitchem]

I don't know why but my favorite phaser is the old small stone phaser but I end up using the mxr phase 95 on my board instead just because it's smaller and I know they make a smaller version of the small stone but it doesn't sound the same as the old version ala pre sovtek version maybe it's just the one with the trippy looking logo that is different but it just doesn't get as fast as the original and one of my main uses for it is as a ring modulater it mixed with a good distortion makes a huge awesome sound I can't get from anything else even different ring modulaters that can be slowed down enough to sound like a phaser

[wesmitchem]

Don't feel bad about having so many phasers i used to have that many until I sold off the ones that were redundant and theres still a few i want to get like a Ibanez phase modulater and maybe an old blood dweller and I forgot the brand name but it's called a phase computer and has like 32 stages

[mikemorrisonmusic]

“It occurred to me that I have a lot of phasers.” (Hmm, I guess he probably has 2 or 3…HOLY SHIT!)

[moGear]

Cylyscope look at the wave that should explane a lot may

[moGear]

i like the cables your using, ,, im 60 my ears are ed I get it

[rocketmanrick]

I got the Top Gun reference there...✈🖕✈

[moGear]

take a hike if you dont want to lissen country phaser witch on buddy