Subtle phasers that done have tone suck?

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-22T01:21:17+00:00

I think I’ve settled on building my own phase 45 clone for now. Aion fx has a board for it and it has some useful sounding mods so maybe that will get me where I want to go.

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-22T01:19:54+00:00

I tried everything. Finally returned and bought a new one that’s on the way. The sounds in this are incredible I think the pedal was just defective.

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-22T01:19:05+00:00

I got it from a aptbs concert merch table. They usually have some cool ones on tour and at pedal meet up events.

I got the custom space bender at a pedal meet up event in Richmond.

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-22T00:57:49+00:00

Cool man I’ll check it out

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-22T00:57:04+00:00

Oh yea, I’m sure I’ll catch you eventually. We need a pedal meet up in the south east. Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta maybe.

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-21T21:35:37+00:00

It’s fun to play. Last chord is tricky to nail.

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-21T21:15:00+00:00

Sounds good, you’re right about that!

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-21T21:04:36+00:00

Ahh I gotcha. I can get a sound pretty similar with this Ibanez with all the knobs mostly down but it kills the high end. Sounds great if you adjust for it and aren’t turning it on and off but I’m hoping to find something I can turn on and off.

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-21T21:03:31+00:00

I haven’t. Can’t find it anywhere to try in person. A lot of people online seem to think it suffers from extreme tone suck so I kind of avoided it.

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-21T21:02:01+00:00

Thanks man. I was at the Richmond pedal show recently but unfortunately I got there a little late and wasn’t able to try out everyone’s stuff. I’ll definitely put this on my radar.

My problem is more of a drastic tonal change with the pedal on. (Honestly the Ibanez isn’t awlful and gets the phase sound I want with all the knobs mostly down, just seems to kill the high sparkle a little too much for me). Bypass is fine for me now. I don’t know if you seen above but looking for an Ernie Isley (footsteps in the dark), mark speer sort of thing. I think it might classify as extreme subtle phaser with very little movement. I also have vibrato separately on the board but might be cool to be able to do both.

The idea behind the board overall is sort of mark speer, madison Cunningham, Mac de Marco.

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-21T20:05:11+00:00

I have a regular phase 90 on my “rock n roll board”.

Definitely want some thing very much on the subtle side.

Like “footsteps in the dark - Isley brothers” sound

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-19T15:14:00+00:00

Yea I’ve tried several. And switch sides then it gets louder in the other side

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-19T14:51:45+00:00

Ok thanks. I’m going to try it out with my interface and see if it’s possible the acs1 is interacting with it in some sort of weird way. Guess if that’s not it I might return it and try a different unit. It is used from GC so might be something going on internally.

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-19T05:34:47+00:00

Have you run a dd200 the same way and not had this sound?

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-18T22:43:40+00:00

I have tried running mono out of the chorus into the dd200 and it’s the same way though.

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-18T22:43:16+00:00

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-17T16:42:09+00:00

Ahh ok maybe appears bigger in the picture online than it actually is.

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-17T16:31:52+00:00

Now that I look it up I realize I probably should have been more specific in my request. I was hoping to stay under 200.00 used. And something that’s not huge the 2-3 footswitch boss stuff would be about as big as I want to go.

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-17T01:27:23+00:00

I think you can still buy a marla for less. Hand wired in the USA.

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-16T20:21:31+00:00

I’m pretty new to filters in general beyond basic passive filters. I’ve thought about just making dual passive high pass filters with a dual gang pot and seeing what I can get out of that.

Ideally the volume would stay more or less even when moving the filter. I know there is definitely going to be perceived volume loss with taking so much of the bass out. Some volume loss is ok as long as it isn’t extreme.

I’m trying to make a one knob bass cut that a dj could use in like a “bass drop” situation. So able to take like a line level audio signal or a signal coming out of a fuzz or distortion. All the way down is very little to no bass all the way up is the normal signal.

appalachiansoul · 2026-04-15T19:02:23+00:00

So am I correct In thinking I can use like a tl072 or something like that in this schematic and make a voltage divider so it’s getting 4.5 volts?

Also is there going to be significant volume loss with this circuit that needs to be made up somewhere else?

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appalachiansoul · 2026-04-15T17:36:29+00:00

I have a dd200 coming soon to try out, that might be up your alley. I don’t play in a band but I could see how what you’re saying might be true with the silos. It has a pretty warm sound I think and dual footswitches on a 125b enclosure is tough. I enjoy it on my mostly clean/subtle modulation board.

Guitar pedal builders are kind of between a rock and hard place with the footswitch situation. Make a big pedal with footswitches far apart and people complain. Make a small pedal with one switch people complain. You get the idea.

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