Phaser Guitar
Phaser Guitar
What guitar effect should i get?
What guitar effect should i get?
I know the basics of the guitar now. And a little bit more. but now i want to start using with effects. What are some good effects for people in my situation?? If there is anything like The Phaser, Pitch Shifter, or Killswitch, that would be easy for a basic player like me let me know. thanks. 
i have all of those effects you listed well except i have a killswitch on my guitar not a pedal and they're all great but a pedal that is great to start with is a wah pedal or a distortion pedal but out of the pedals you listed the one i would recommend is the pitch shifter
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Digitech XHP Hyper Phase 7-mode Phaser Guitar Pedal List Price: $104.95 Sale Price: $69.94 Used From: $43.50  |
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X-Series® Hyper Phase™ Stereo Phaser The Hyper Phase™ delivers 7 operational modes, instead of the typical one mode only that you find in some other pedals. These operational modes are easily selectable using the mode control allowing you to choose from a selection of awesome voicing sounds, triggering feature, and useful step functions... |
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Zoom G3 Guitar Multi Effects Pedal and USB Interface List Price: $339.99 Sale Price: $186.00 Used From: $174.99 |
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The Zoom G3 Guitar Multi Effects Pedal and USB Interface unites the ease of a stompbox pedalboard with the power of a multi effects pedal plus a USB audio interface. The G3 gives complete control over individual effects and amp modeling for modifying your tones on the fly while performing... |
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Electro-Harmonix Small Stone Nano Phaser Pedal List Price: $104.00 Sale Price: $72.80 Used From: $79.95 |
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Generates our classic, thick, sweeping phase shifting with liquid transparency and tingling feedback control. Get the exact tones that made the Small Stone famous. Pedal board friendly with spectacular sound. |
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Behringer VP1 Authentic Vintage-Style Phase Shifter List Price: $47.99 Sale Price: $23.99 Used From: $21.59 |
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Authentic Vintage-Style Phase Shifter |
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MXR Phase 90 Effects Pedal List Price: $137.25 Sale Price: $66.93 Used From: $61.99 |
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The MXR Phase 90 delivers the classic four-stage phasing sound with continuously variable speed control. The Phase 90 has a fixed regeneration level that adds intensity and sounds great on guitars and keyboards... |
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T-Rex Engineering Tonebug - Phaser Guitar Pitch Effect Pedal List Price: $199.00 Sale Price: Too low to display |
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Where overdrive and distortion pedals give you that great dirty edge, and reverb and delay pedals create time and space effects, a phase shifter adds a dynamic undulating dimension to your sound. the t-rex phaser gives you everything you need for a dramatic phased sound using two simple controls; rate and depth... |
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MXR CSP-101CL Custom Shop Script Phase 90 with LED Phaser Pedal List Price: $164.79 Sale Price: $90.32 |
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The elusive vintage MXR Phase 90 guitar pedal is at the top of the list for pedal collectors world-wide. The original version—available from the company's inception to the late 70's—practically defined the classic phase shifter sound, and was heard on everything from hard rock to jazz-fusion and funk hits... |
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Behringer UP300 Ultra Phase Shifter 2-Mode Phaser Effects Pedal List Price: $47.99 Sale Price: $23.99 Used From: $20.00 |
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Whether you're looking for a sweet lunar breeze or the roar of an interplanetary ocean to push your tone beyond your normal confines, the ULTRA PHASE SHIFTER UP300 is ready to help you make a change for the strange... |
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Pigtronix EP2 Envelope Phaser Guitar Effects Pedal List Price: $299.00 Sale Price: $228.00 Used From: $199.99 |
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The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pours on the special sauce to take your tone into outer space. Accentuating and sweeping through the harmonics of any musical source, the motion of this revolutionary phase shifter can be controlled by Envelope, LFO or a blend of both... |
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Boss PH3 Phase Shifter List Price: $179.50 Sale Price: $84.69 Used From: $59.99 |
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The BOSS PH-3 Phase Shifter pedal provides a wealth of vintage and modern phasing effects, including new Rise and Fall modes for unique, unidirectional phasing. Syncing these phasing effects is as simple as tapping the pedal to the desired tempo... |
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 Vintage Univox Micro Fazer Phaser Guitar Effect Pedal  US $195.00
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 Status Volution phaser guitar effects pedal US $10.50
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 Ibanez PH7 Phaser Guitar Effect Pedal used US $14.99
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How to Make a Ear Popping Dubstep Reese - Expert Tips Revealed
Drum and bass & dubstep engineers / producers will at some point want a speaker bustin' Reese bass sound for there next dance floor smasher. The Reese bass or lead is the uber-classic 'gritty bass' sound. From the more subtle terrorist types of Reece to the bonkers alien girl Reese they all have one thing in common. The legendary saw tooth wave.
Firstly, get a multi oscillator synth (ideally 3 or 4 oscillators - quick hint you can always pair up synths to get 8 or even 16 oscillators running for exponential madness) for example the NI massive, ES2 by Logic or reasons 'maelstrom'. You will want to set the number 1 oscillator and all the other oscillators to a saw tooth wave. The saw tooth is rich in harmonic waves, The normal waves ramps upward and then falls. There are also saw tooth waves where the wave ramps down and then rises sharply. That kind of saw tooth wave is called a 'reverse saw tooth' or 'inverse saw tooth'. As audio signals, the two orientations of saw tooth wave sound identical until paired together
Once you have got your multi oscillator synth running with 3 oscillators or more, the next step in the process is to detune one or 2 of the oscillators by around +/- 25cents (1 detune by +25, 2 detune by -25, 3 leave in the middle), this is very effective for drum and bass and dubstep. This gives the reese a very deep edgy dark sound, rather than just a buzzy electro kind of sound.
After setting up your initial saw tooth with De-turning, (this is essentially the basis of the Reece) - You can go ahead and start manipulating and shaping the noise for your type of music, dubstep or drum and bass. If you have 'unison' switch on your synth now is a good time to turn it on! Also if you have an analogue knob you can turn that up too. Here are some of the main parameters you can use:
ASDR on the filter
A interesting method to get a movement on the Reese bass is to add envelope to the filter section, Reese bass noises are extremely sensitive to filters and using a high pass you can get a very nice sounding lead, or use a low pass and get a very fat bass. try using around 25% of filter attack for dubstep and 35% for drum and bass. A fast attack will give an almost LFO effect when the notes are played fast. A long attack is good for long held notes.
Phaser effect.
Because of the harmonic phases all ready occurring due to the multiple oscillation, adding an external phaser effect can and does work very well. It's better to use a sparse amount of phase to subtly enhance the sound rather than extreme amounts. This effect also adds movement so your sound is not just a static note.
Flange
The flange process can add a nice bit of subtle metallic rasp to the sound, this helps gives you a big bad dubstep sound.
Delay
The delay effect can make a Reece sound massive! Try using a delay just before the drop.
Reverb
Again light applications of reverb can act very effectively on your sound, Guitar amp reverbs tend to work well with Reece bass and also come packed with distortion for extra bite.
Other plug-in's that add madness to your Reese include: Distortion, compression, LFO and auto filters work especially well with dubstep.
Quick Tips: Try using a synced tremolo with about 50% of effect for some crazy wobble. Using reasons combinator you can make 2 maelstroms play at the same time and have the same LFO settings for a massive Reese sound. The Reese is the core of most drum and bass and dubstep productions. Learn it well young sky walker!
In summary, it is best to effect your Reese line a lot for dubstep and drum and bass music production. It's a well used if not over used sound, so to make it stand out you will have to be creative with your engineering skills. Filters act in a massive way and reverb is a must!
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