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Old 24th November 2010   #6
nickartsacoustic
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Originally Posted by polybonk View Post
I have found delays/reverbs that satisfy my for ITB efects duties. But what I am realy after are the creem of the crop in Phasers. I have heard the soundtoys one and thats ok but not realy close to the goodness of hardware. UAD one is prety thin sounding, Psp nitro meh.... etc etc

So far the best I have found is the one that comes in Tassman. That is the one that sounds the closest to hardware to my ears. Its very very good. Not as spacial 3d sounding as in my Ensoniq DP4 but close. The ArtsAcoustic BigRock is on my shortlist. Sounding like a winner as well.

So I was wondering what are the best phaser plugins? What is out there that I may have missed? What are your favorites?
Our phaser is an accurate emulation of the electro harmonix smallstone mkII, which had a very unique sound. If you liked the original, you can´t go wrong with bigrock. If you did never like the original, bigrock won´t do it for you.

A word on digital phasers:
Digital phasers mostly don´t sound like analog ones due to the fact that in analog phasers it´s not only modulated allpasses. Mostly, at least on the good ones, there´s a discrete filterdesign additional to the allpass modulation (amongst other things), which makes the feedback sounding way less harsh. Unless you do not emulate that in digital phasers, they just sound like that - like modulated allpasses.
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