The History Of Phaser Pedals
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- In this week's episode, Nick and I jam with the greatest phasers ever made, though-- to be clear --I'm talking about the guitar pedals, not the phasers from Star Trek. We explore everything from the MXR Phase 90 to the Kent Black Gold Phaser, and we do it with style
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:19 The Classics
0:50 1967 Japan
1:54 "Vibe Snack"
2:07 1970s
4:18 "Shifty Jones"
4:43 1973/1974
5:51 "The Jello is Alive"
6:39 Phase 90
8:37 "Mars Bound Honky-Tonk"
9:27 It's Just a Phase
10:15 Colorsound
11:17 "Phaze Nugget"
11:22 Electro-Harmonix
13:14 "Subatomic Car Chase"
13:55 Roland
15:37 "Not That One Song"
15:58 Traffic Light Trio
16:35 "Green Means Go"
17:04 Mu-Tron
19:04 "Cow Says Mu"
20:18 DOD
21:09 "Space Station Boardwalk"
21:43 DOD 490
22:33 PH-44
23:43 "Good Morning, Earthworms"
24:26 1999
26:39 "Self-Aware Cactus"
27:25 Honorable Mentions
28:58 Record Time
30:25 Thanks for Watching!
30:51 Hidden Track
Gear in this Episode:
Univibe
Eventide PS101
Maestro Phase Shifter
Oberheim Electronics Phasor
Maestro Mini-Phase
Maestro Octave Box
MXR Phase 90 Script
MXR Phase 100
MRX Phase 90 Block Logo
Colorsound Phazex
Colorsound Supaphase
Electro-Harmonix Bad Stone Phase Shifter
Electro-Harmonix Small Stone
Roland Jet Phaser AP7
Roland Phase Five
Boss PH-1 Traffic Light Trio Series
Boss PH-1R
Mu-Tron Phasor II
Mu-Tron Phasor III
DOD Phasor 401
DOD Phasor 201
DOD Phasor 490
Pearl Effector PH-44 Phaser
Ibanez PH7 Phaser
Ibanez AP7 Analog Phaser
Ibanez PM7 Phase Modulator
Univox Micro Fazer
Kent Black Gold
The Sweeper
Top Gear Funky Phaser
Top Gear Phaser
Maxon Phase Tone
Ibanez PH10
Ibanez BPL
Record Time:
Pearl Jam - Yield
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The Oberheim Electronics Phasor "The Jello is Alive" Jam
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Wouldn't have been surprised if this was just 30 mins of phase 90 love
I'm literally paused at 0:01 right now. If this is 30 mins of phase 90, I'll hurl.
I love the phaser on love comes tumbling by u2. The edge. Very sweet. Thanks for sharing the dod 201, yellow box. My first effect, never sounds anything but great.
Logan Robichaud - Phase 90 is the EVH secret weapon.
the ehx version...i use two of them in stereo
MXR Phase 90, the Zen pedal!
Josh is one of the coolest nerds EVER... All of these historical category deep-dives are just golden.
I’ve watched bout 60 of his videos and he’s never boring. Deadpan but extremely detailed, legend
Shout out to the great Electronic Projects for Musicians book, Phase shifter/ Vibrato. 5 stage ( well five CLM6000 opto isolators anyway). I absolutely loved mine. I built every project in the book except the chromatic tone tuner and the little solid state bench amp. Phase shifter was number one! The vibrato can go ultra slow and it can be downright evil sounding. Tom Oberheim also invented the Ring Modulator, aka Maestro RM1 for his college thesis. That pedal is pure gold for experimental musicians. The RM1's control voltage input ( CV-in ) was my introduction to electronic music and multimedia. I used $5 Coron DS7 drum synth , a Yamaha Electone B4CR organ I found on a pile of dirt , and made countless tape loops on my Wollensak table top portable reel to reel recorders, copping drum beats from records. Ah' the days when gear was utility and could be rummaged together.
Phasers are cool and all, but after watching these jams for a few years, I'd really like to see an in-depth rundown of how you mic and process the drums. They sound so PHAT with so few mics. Way to go guys!
Just wanted to take a second to appreciate Nick's drumming! I'm not a drummer, but he is killer even when playing softly, very good dynamics
After watching this video I wanted to write the exact same thing as you
Also that phantom bass player..
Damn right! He’s very sympathetic to the guitar.
Where is the Nicks drumming sucks t-shirt. Or Nick cant play the skinz
He is very good at serving the song, and very good at coming up with creative, interesting parts
The melody is a blend of "Hot Blooded", "My Woman From Tokyo", and "Third Stone From the Sun". I would've called it "My Third Hot Blooded Stone From Tokyo".
The Date is April 16th. 😜😂😂 I'll show myself out.
"Yield" was a great record! For me it was their return to form established on "Ten" and "Versus". I would rank them: "Ten", "Yield"/"Versus" (based on my mood for the day) then "Binaural" then all others. (Haven't heard the new record so not sure where that fits.) I couldn't stand "Vitology" though. Hate me if you want, but that's how I feel.
That thing at the end sounded more like a Ring Modulator than a Phaser.
You beat me. I definitely heard Hot Blooded and Third Stone From The Sun".
How about "Children of the Sun" Billy Thorpe
"No One Knows" from Queens of the Stone Age also has similar riff.
Yep, I was hearing Hot Blooded too.
"My Woman From Tokyo" was the first to jump into my head. All of the others you listed make perfect sense too. Combined title is perfect.
The drums sound remarkable this week. ✊🏻
Michael Einziger from incubus is my favourite phaser user….the way he combines it with delay and volume swells on Pardon Me is pure art. Of course on morning view he went to town on it also.
When you are Jimi Hendrix the world is your pedalboard, that's why his pedals were laying down on the floor 😎
I was going to say stage. But all the world's a stage anyway.
He didn't assemble his pedals. He merely appeared on stage and the pedals came rushing to worship at his feet as he played.
@@DeadWhiteButterflies That's not strictly true. He had magnets in his boots.
@@TheRealcdawg22 …And all those people with guitars are merely players.
@@edryba4867 ...performers and portrayers...
“Smell the box. Love the box” - Josh Scott 😂
He smells the box!
Full Spinal Tap.
You can smell the 70's in them!
I love smelling the box...
The Pearl PH-03 phaser was one of my first ever pedals. It's great because it has its own distinct voice and great tweaking potential. Downsides, as usual with phasers, a slight volume drop and a noticable swoosh even when you don't play. I'd never get rid of it!
I just wanted to say thank you for making these Josh! I love your show, and I have learned so much from it. I would love to come say hi and meet you some day. Thanks again to you, your family and your crew!
WURDZ IZ HARD. Another classic.
I need that jingle to follow me around.
I love the jingles. I literally look at one of my pedals with a box and sing “he has the box!”
the guitar solos in Siamese Dream, that was the first time a phaser caught my ears
Great example, the Cherub Rock solo is stratospheric!
@@stuffandjunkanduhh5049 good to know
Same here. “What’s going on with the ‘Mayonaise’ solo?” “That’s a Phase 90. It’s also in David Gilmour’s rig after Wish You Were Here.” “Please take my money.”
@@stuffandjunkanduhh5049 the guitar intro to Cherub Rock has some phasing too though, doesn't it? (Before stamping on the Big Muff)
@@stuffandjunkanduhh5049 I think it's both at times! They must have mixed Phase 90, Mutron Bi-phase and EHX Electric Mistress with different combos!
I was 17 in 1975 when I bought A Used Gibson SG... as Listening, Phase shift is Def. different than A Chorus! I bought A Smallstone Phase shift and Loved It! In H.S. Played In a Battle of the bands and did the song " HEY YOU " By BTO....... Great Phase shifter song!!! That Song Nailed the Contest For us!!!
My dad is from Rochester, NY and didn't live too far from where Keith developed the phase 90. In fact, my dad has one of the original models when he was building them out of his house.
I was getting JHS Show withdrawals this week.... it’s all good now guys!
“both my bad stones are broken”
one might even say they’re both... bad
One might even say... He has no stones.
One might also say they're basically stones now, bad ones at that
No list of vintage Phasers can be complete without the Compact Phasing "A"
I like that you're so knowledgeable, and simultaneously such a goofball.
Instant Classic episode! 😁 Shortest jam ever, new stinger, new t-shirt, boxes galore and Nick sarcasm level 12. (Oh and very informative and historically relevant)Great job guys!!
So grateful to the guy that sold me an old Phase 45 in the late 80s for £14 when I told him I wanted a wobbly organ kind of sound like JH: I didn't know what a univibe was but the P45 actually nails it 90%
Yes the 45 is a 2-stage phaser which makes it sound more univibe like!
The univibe is my favorite pedal ever, there's nothing like that sound specially in the hands of Hendrix.
agreed, i wish i could just travel back and time and get it when it was a reasonable price
@@growskullThere are so many clones of the original circuit available on the market nowadays for reasonable prices
Always on my pedal board, realy cooll effect. I have several: Phase 45, 90, 95, Morley Phaser One, Fender Phaser (reissue), Lost Highware Phaser, Ibanez FP-777 (reissue) and Estradin Effect-2 (USSR, 1987). Love Phase 95, it sounds extremely good to my ear.
Awesome!
'Cow Says Mu' really captures the harsh realities of being out there on the streets, passing out Phasor literature in a t-shirt that says 'It's only a Phase', whilst listening to Faith No More's 'Kindergarten' on repeat, lonely night after lonely night.
Kingdom!!’ Kindergarten... 😆
Or selling "The Big Issue" in Glasgow. Beam me up, Scotty!
When can we expect the episode “why you need a bit crusher” 😝
“Why you need a random octave noise generator, with .15 of a second looping, granular delay...”
Part 1.
The 'Space Station Boardwalk' melody is incredibly similar to the 'Born on the Bayou' guitar solo by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Real close, real cool. Also, grew up with the more compact Pearl Phaser in the house.
I'm so glad I rewound to find out what "you know who you are" was about. Josh helps make my day again.
Well, if the Univibe counts as a phaser, then I would have to say that Robin Trower’s “Bridge of Sighs” is my favorite phaser song of all time.
It counts as the best phaser in my opinion.
I love all of them really, so I use an optical phaser with Vibrato option, and Asymmetrical/Symmetrical switch, with 4 speeds, from normal to Ring Mod, etc.
I really dig phasers.
yep, bit weird to not mention Trower in a phaser vid
Incubus’ “Morning View” might have my favorite phaser sounds. I think he had one Phase 90 and two Boss PH-1s at that time.
Yield is my favorite PJ record. Oh man, so good. And you’re totally right with Given to Fly’s phaser guitar. My favorite phaser use was Korn on Follow the leader’s tracks. They really took it to a new level.
That MU-tron is sick!
Hands down the best ‘has the box’ segment yet.
Anthony Jackson’s bass part on The O’Jay’s “For The Love Of Money.”
I have owned ONE phaser pedal in my life: The Boss PH-1r. I have never felt the need to look elsewhere.
I don’t have that pedal! Am I going to survive? Pure genius!!!!
You missed one of my favorite phasers. I think it was made by Maestro, and was a wedge of aluminum and black plastic. The pots were side mounted with wheels instead of knobs so that you could adjust them with your feet on the fly. In the days before midi or control pedals, this was a great idea. The two adjustments were speed and "balls".
Definitely laying down some huge WEEN vibes w/ some of these tunes. All hail Boognish.
Mach 10 at sudden speed!
@@Andrew-bn7rr hey dude: He's the stallion!
Mister Would You Please Help My Pony?
They luuuuv phaser; I luuuuv them
I can feel the pork roll egg and cheese
Awesome episode!!! Phase is such a good effect. The jams are getting better and better!!!
Uni -vibe!! And the MXR phase 45 and Electro Harmonix Small Stone!!
29:00 Yield is one of PJ's best. Was well out of high school (and college) by that time. It has real vigor and power, like Mudhoney's "Tomorrow Hit Today," also from '98 (the last gasp of "grunge" before the label got somewhat retired, maybe perhaps).
I am loving this channel! So fortunate to be informed on so much history and information on guitar pedals...thank you!!!
I am always stoked on y’all drum sounds
"Where does he get those wonderful toys?" Thank you. A truly fun time.
Hidden Track Jam changed my life.
I might have found it very strange had I not been listening to Mr Bungle just before this.
I had a Mu-Tron Phasor. Loved it. Wish I still had it. It actually went up in smoke, just like in the movies.
A great great show. Thank you Josh.
Always love your videos Josh, entertaining & educational👍🏻
Gary Numan used the MXR Phase 100 loads on The Pleasure Principle and Telekon, mainly on a Polymoog, beginning of "Cars", for example and the warbly middle bit as well as at the instrumental ending....
I've been playing for fifty years this year {2022}. The best sounding phaser I have ever heard was an early Ross. The effect is heard, but not harsh or over the top, very musical and lush.
great episode... thanx!
i love phasers (for synths as well) !
one of my favourite efffects.
(own an old mxr 100 and a rare pearl phaser ph-03 (smaller brother of the one you showed)
my dream was always a mutron bi phase (behringer cloned it these days)
nice t shirt ..!
Your playing has been improving every year! Congrats!
Can we get an episode where, during the jams, instead of focusing on the pedal, you focus on Nick's face while he plays?
NickCam should be a thing.
That's premium content for Patreon.
Only Fans...
@@mxdbld7100 What's that?
@@christopherfettes390 oh you
Favorite use of phaser is probably the Meters’ cover of ‘Down by The River’. Wish I knew what they used...that big slow shift they use is the best ❤️
you guys should do a modern/vintage phaser episode! let me explain. warm audio mutation phasor ii, fender waylen jennings phaser, maestro orbit phaser, and the JHS/Ross Phaser have all come out in the last year. WE GOTTA HAVE THEM ALL TOGETHER. also mostly because i wanna know which to buy but there’s no shootout videos of them lol
It's been 14 months during Covid-19 that I have laughed so hard out loud after viewing this video! Thank you Josh!!!
I would love an episode dedicated to the tone lok series. They're my favorite pedals ever!
I occasionally here people say good things but I'm curious why you say that? I inherited my brother's DS7 because he bought most his gear as a teen obsessed with nu-metal - in fact it's probably here somewhere - but I don't remember ever feeling like it was the distortion for me
@@presinald i love the design of the tone lok pedals. The Boss-like layout with the pop out knobs and switch for extra modes is incredible. Wasn't a fan of the DS7, but love the DE7 and PM7. They had a couple of great gems!
"The Jello is alive" is now my favorite jam!
@@celephais5748 Haha!
@@celephais5748 Jello is LIFE!
The time, effort and ability taken to produce this shines through in these videos, outstanding.
i need a jhs spotify with all the funny & heartbreaking jingles
Eddie Van Halen has been such a huge influence on me. I really love that one of the key ingredients to his sound debuted the day before my day of birth. I was born on August 16th, 1974 :D
Happy Birthday! I was born exactly 1 year before you! Cheers to Aug 16!
Let's give Addison some love for always having the most delicious P bass tone every episode. EVERY ONE!!
I like the J-bass more… maybe because I have a BLONDE 1966 model.
Just watching your videos you've given me inspiration for my next body guitar build
i've been watching this channel more and more over the past few months. I like the content a lot, but the more i watch and get the crews sense of humour, it's even sillier. The whole 'he has the box' and other little weird jokes are cracking me up. thanks for the content and the silliness
“... people were obviously not focussed on remembering anything...”
I took my Yield cd into Spier Music in Garland, TX when I was in high school and asked them how to get the tone from Faithfull. They sold me a tone-lok tube screamer, that stayed on my board all through college. No ragrets.
omg, you bring back HUGE memories there!!!! do you remember Viakon village? there was a guitar store in there that had a lot of less-desirable vintage fender guitars.
Yep, sure do. Never spent a lot of time there but I remember it.
the jams just keep getting better, the sounds emanating from this drum kit
I'm a drummer and I love your videos. Look forward to them every week.
Favorite phaser user? Waylon Jennings. No question. Favorite song? THIS TIME on the live album. No question.
Agreed. Love Waylon's tone and playing in general. Transcends genre
Tom Oberheim❤️ is a legend!
That one melody you asked about had me singing "Hot Blooded" in my head.
Late comment. But i'm amazed how big was the phaser sound in the seventies. You can hear a great phaser tunes on the 1975 Invisible's Durazno Sangrando. Great record from a great argentinian band.
Space Station Boardwalk reminded me of My Woman From Tokyo.
What @Jeremy Cole said
Same, also a little bit like Hot Blooded by Foreigner
Dang I got here fast uh high everybody
Im half way through my joint, so im getting there🙆
i’ve found my people
Not looking forward to Tuesday, I work in a weed store. LOTS of specials! And old people bitching. My generation sucks.
the phaser on the boss me-80 is freaking amazing.
I really enjoy these videos. Thanks!
I’m genuinely surprised that the maestro stage phaser was not mentioned. Bob Moog designed it and it’s one of the best phasers of all time. The foot dials alone make it completely unique. But it is also one of the best sounding vintage phasers hands-down.
I played the smaller Phaser. It was not as wide and still had the big Speed and Balls side wheels.
@@TheBigGuppy Yea those Speed & Balls controls are ace, not many have the lights working on them now though
I though he had one sitting in the background behind him. By his left elbow.
I had one in the mid ‘70s. Having the foot dials on the sides (left side was depth, right side was speed as I recall) was pretty cool, and the entire housing was the effect on-off switch.
The MP-1 is my all-time fave phase shifter!
Josh: No new phasers
Me who owns a Small Stone: Oh... XD
the Small Stone is great , isnt it? i didnt like it much on guitars but then i started using it on organ/synths and thats where i personally make it work,,, wish i had gotten the 12 stage moog phaser when i was able to,,, but oh well
You are a tone geek after my own heart. Keep it coming!
Knowledge & jams, what more could one ask for...
One of my favorite phaser songs is "Love 'Em and Leave 'Em" by KISS, from the Rock And Roll Over album (1976). I don't know exactly what phaser was used on Ace Frehley's guitar, but I know it was added after at the mixing stage, and at was at least a 6-stage phaser, at minimum. It was probably an Eventide Instant Phaser, or a Mu-Tron.
Phaser was all over 70s guitar (and keyboards, bass, drums, and even vocals), just like chorus in the 80s. To me, it's about as representative of the decade as Evel Knievel, leisure suits, and Farrah Fawcett.
“Brain of JFK” is a gorgeous chorus
Loved the way you play when you got cowboy boots 👢 on. Great history lesson. Thanks
21:09
That melody is “Deep Purple - Woman From Tokyo “
I don't know about the Mutron II, but I thought the Mutron III was the classic auto-wah effect that Jerry Garcia used
You are correct. Mutron lll...very sensitive filter thingy
Pearl Phaser sounds incredible indeed
Dude, that jam called “Phaze Nugget” SLAPS.
That hidden track...Changed my life. So touching, specially the lyrics. Beautiful re-interpretation of Windows 95.
That's awesome, I was just getting back into Yield and watching some of their old concerts. That album is definitely their high point in my opinion. And by high point, I mean that they were just making a really good record as a band again instead of experimenting or reacting to their last record.
Really good band with some flaws, but no one can deny their best work.
I was watching this video and I thought to myself: with the amount of pedals JHS has on those shelfs they can probably open an interactive museum about pedals? That would be awesome!
Those shelves must be 20 % of his pedals...
Oh..., there will be an Interactive Museum opening sometime in the, relatively distance, future !
Super Well Done fellas. Production value and editing is Super Duper 🤙🤙
I have that huge Fender Phaser with the big wheel on top so you can change the speed by foot. I mostly bought, because it looked cool, but it also sounds nice and is disco for the feet.
One of my favorite phaser albums is "Innerspeaker" by Tame Impala (back when they were good).
What happened to them?
@@notapplicable328 He evolved and got better. Tame Impala is just as good as he was on the first two albums, he just dared to branch out a bit.
I was expecting to see my favorite pedal (and in my opinion beats most of those listed) the Morley Pro Phasor. The automatic mode is cool, but being able to manually control the phase is awesome, it sounds so good.
Plus one on this….super disappointed when my fav big chrome box didn’t make the episode. Maybe an all Tel-Ray/Morley episode?
I just got a morely dual bass wah and realized I've been sleeping on morley. Man they make some sweet stuff. Checking that phaser out now.
I couldn't shut my Phase 90 off in the early 70's! I was like an addict!
Ending with a cover of My Pal Foot Foot. Brilliant!
I haven’t watched tv since rockschool. This show beats ‘rockschool’ . This rocks harder...
Space Station Boardwalk sounds like a mix of Hotblooded and Two Tickets to Paradise
Yes Josh...you have read my mind! Don't know how you do it, but you're good man!!!!! You're good!!!!!!!
Glad to see the “geetar o’ effects” getting some love - that thing is amazeballs. Loved the phasers too...