Phase Shifters

A phase shifter is an affect that duplicates a signal and plays it along side the original signal, but at a slightly delayed time. By shifting the signal in this manner, both signals become in and out of phase with one another and may even cancel out at certain points.

SolidGoldFX Athena - Vibraphase on RigShare
SolidGoldFX
SolidGoldFX

Athena - Vibraphase

Athena; daughter of Zeus. She’s recognized as strong, yet merciful, she has at least some roots in music, having invented the aulos, a double-reeded flute-like instrument. She’s the goddess of wisdom, war, and in our case, handicraft. She’s also the half-sister of Apollo, which coincidentally shares its name with an awesome phaser we make. Our Athena vibra-phase unit fittingly contains two of the four stages of the Apollo, giving you the juicy, chewy swoosh of our full-featured with a little less brashness and with tons of character to spare. However, like the goddess herself, Athena is much more than a simple feature set and design parameters. Stop us if you’ve heard this one: A Uni-Vibe is essentially a souped up phaser. Well, yes and no. While they are topologically similar, the Uni-Vibe requires a little more fine tuning—asymmetric tuning in this case. Athena has all that. It’s perfectly voiced to hold court with the rest of your effects and your instrument’s natural tone. In short: It’s highly musical and dynamic, just like your playing. Speed, depth, level—these come standard. But where the Athena really earns its keep is in its mode and color switches. The mode switch lets you change between different levels of blending to let a little or a lot of wet signal through. One mode position sets Athena to manual mode, where an optional expression pedal lets you manipulate the sweep of Athena without having to bow. Color gives you three levels of oomph that push the Uni-Vibe character into overdrive, essentially giving you a high, medium and low amount of throb for some truly inspiring textures. Adding Athena to any of your solos or chordal work is an excellent idea, dredging up rich harmonics while generating serious spatial movement. It’s time to pay tribute to your tone.

Rick Langlois
Cam

3 Rigs

Native Audio Midnight V2 on RigShare
Native Audio
Native Audio

Midnight V2

The Midnight V2 tap/ramp phaser is finally here and it's loaded with some new and updated features that take an even deeper dive into the world of phasing. Less is more: You may have noticed that the phase/vibrato and 2-stage/4-stage switches are gone! What the heck? Don’t worry though, I cover this later. Also, the switches were removed to better fit the 5-knob/1-switch layout that is well known with the NativeAudio tap/ramp pedals (I mean you know, consistency is key). Mix knob: Probably one of the biggest key efforts in this update was to incorporate a mix knob and well… it was definitely worth it! All the way counterclockwise is a 100% dry-analog signal, while fully clockwise will give you a 100% wet-analog signal. The benefit to this is that you’re able to get those 2-stage/4-stage tones and anywhere in between, simply at the turn of a knob (see I told you to not worry). Vibe, phaser, vibrato… the Midnight does it all. Internal volume: Having control of your volume is essential when it comes to playing and that’s why I decided to keep the volume as a controllable parameter on the Midnight. Located inside the Midnight’s enclosure is a trim pot where you can add up to +12 dB of gain to your signal. It’s kind of one those things where you set it and forget it. I mean who doesn’t love simplicity? Updated circuit: I’ve updated the Midnight’s signal path to have a tighter bass response, but still provide enough warmth and lower frequency content to keep the phasing sounding full and lush. The noise floor has also been considerably reduced, which allows for near-silent conditions when not playing. Standard: As always, the Midnight features: all-analog phasing, up to 5 selectable waveforms, both tap and ramp modes, 4 selectable subdivisions in tap mode, both latch and momentary ramping, top-mounted jacks, 9VDC/50mA operation, and more! The Midnight is a phaser pedal that expands on traditional analog phaser design. By utilizing digital control, the Midnight offers five global waveforms to its two modes: tap and ramp. Tap mode offers tap tempo functionality with four available subdivisions. Ramp mode allows the user to set a slow and fast phasing speed and accelerate between the two, emulating a classic rotary speaker cabinet.

Mike Sarafinas
Tyler Cochran

2 Rigs

Walrus Audio Lillian Multi-Stage Analog Phaser on RigShare
Walrus Audio
Walrus Audio

Lillian Multi-Stage Analog Phaser

Strap into the co-pilot seat and join Lillian on a sonic journey. Leaving nothing behind but clean, puffy white trails of whirling, pulsating and whooshing analog Phase effect. Viewers from below admire in a trance as it transforms the air into a unique and mesmerizing moment. The Lillian is a true bypass, all analog, multi-stage Phaser drawing inspiration from her cousin Julia. With controls like Rate, Width, Feedback, and D-P-V blend, the Lillian is packed with a wide array of analog phaser goodness waiting to be dialed in. The “Stages” switch allows the user to select 4 or 6 stages which alters the overall voice of the effect from warm and tight phasing with 4 stages to a more complex filtered sound with 6. The D-P-V knob lets you blend between dry, phase shifted, and vibrato sounds allowing for a wide range of control over the intensity and type of effect. Top mounted input, output, and power jacks as well as soft switch relay bypassing make the Lillian fit well on your board and ensure smooth operation for years to come. Borrowed from the Julia, the unique blend between Dry, Chorus and Vibrato has also been provided on the Lillian. Blend between Dry, Phase Shifted, and Vibrato (labeled d-p-v on the pedal). The Dry-Phase-Vibrato blend changes the ratio of dry to wet signal sent to the output. At minimum, you will hear no effect. Set it to noon for equal parts dry and wet – the traditional Phaser setting. Set it to maximum for 100% wet resulting in pitch vibrato. Explore the ground between minimum and noon for adding slight amounts of movement to your dry signal. Explore the ground between noon and maximum for all sorts of unheard phase/vibrato combinations.

Robert Fegley
Thomas Rees

2 Rigs

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