ITB phasers that come close to hardware?

[polybonk]

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?

[Brickman]

Uhbik's phaser is the closest I've heard

u-he.com - UHBIK

[msl]

I like D16's Fazortan.



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[Resonator]

This is a good one. Sanford super phaser also a free version on CM dvd
Leslie Sanford - Sanford Super Phaser VST Effect

Also heard good things about the phaser that comes with Oligarc
Oligarc | Stillwell Audio - It's About The Sound

And AD Phase Two is good as well
Audio Damage :: Phase Two

[polybonk]

Thanks guys for the feedback. IMHO the Stanford and Audio damage ones are very software sounding. That said I have used them on productions before. Fazortan was a bit better than most. Have to check out the UHBIK and Oligarc, thanks for that.thumbsup

[nickartsacoustic]

Originally Posted by polybonk

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.

[blue monk]

Audio Damage recreation of Mutron BiPhase
Audio Damage :: Phase Two

[JayPee]

PSP NITRO!

PSP Nitro the ultimate multimode filter plugin in VST, AudioUnit, DirectX and RTAS format

[CRACKPIPE]

Are guitar pedals ok to use? what's a good one, if so.

[Brickman]

Originally Posted by CRACKPIPE

Are guitar pedals ok to use? what's a good one, if so.

Yeah as long as u get something like a stilton adapter , or Little labs PCP Distro .

Tonnes of different flavours of phaser , personally I like the Blackout Whetstone and the Effectrode Phaseomatic . Modmax Phaser is also pretty good and offers a lot of modulation possibilities .

[CalvaryBand]

Originally Posted by polybonk

Thanks guys for the feedback.

I have to admit; this made me laugh.

Seconding the Fazortan. It sounds great!

[shaft9000]

I am a phaser junkie . I have to second what was said above about many varieties and flavors. SOOOO many ways to go Woosh, ehe.

hmmm....I've had Tassman for a long while; used it more in the past. I don't remember the phasers being much - mostly the sequencers and osc+filter quality in general is what i dig.

as for analog phasers - i use the Whetstone, EHX Flanger Hoax and Cwejman SPH-2

Whetstone: SmallStone tacken to much further extremes. really gorgeous pedal phaser; totally authentic but not as dirty as old SS's.

EHX Flanger Hoax - Filthy beast of chaos and phuckuppery.
Does the classic ThruZero trick, but truly not a flanger at all "Flanging Phaser Modulator" it says, which is much closer to the truth.(true flanging is a dual-tape procedure; may also be done digitally but NOT in one pedal/unit... it's gotta have a time-modulatable source layered w/ original to really qualify)

SPH-2 - My favorite phaser of all-time... just go play with one and sweep the SPECTRUM knob while switching back and forth the spatial/rotating switch. It self-oscillates via the typoed "FEADBACK" knob. Is a bit sensitive to PSU grounding, be aware.... but worth every quirk through and through. The one I may be buried with.

digital phasers - sorry only hardware synths and multi-fx here. The VST ones never "drew me in" much:
Kurzweil Rumour/Mangler sounds real nice. May well be one of the best you'll find in outboard under a grand.
Eventide H3000 phaser' s pretty good but not it's highlight.
Novation Supernova2 has a really good one.
VSynth (COSM) - strong but wooly imho; and swampier than most.
MS2000 - one of this synth's highlights. not a mindbender or all that vibey...but does the job well.

[CRACKPIPE]

Originally Posted by shaft9000

MS2000 - one of this synth's highlights. not a mindbender or all that vibey...but does the job well.

Why didn't I think of that? I already have it's input on a send bus.

Thanks.

[mpod]

Vote for ArtsAcoustic one. Truly amazing yet so simple. Worth to check.

I also have few Reaktor free ensembles which are equal to commercial one - but free

[brok landers]

Originally Posted by shaft9000

>snip<
Novation Supernova2 has a really good one. >snip<

what?? eeeek... i´ve had a supernova for a long time, and i am as well a phaser wh0re (biggest smallstone fan on the planet), but thatone is a nogo imo...
but as said before, if you love the smallstone sound, there´s only one simple truth that _perfectly_ matches the mkII and that´s the artsacoustic one.

[brok landers]

Originally Posted by shaft9000

MS2000 - one of this synth's highlights. not a mindbender or all that vibey...but does the job well.

yeah, same here... shaft, you remind me of one i used a lot back in the times - there´s this mfx called mde-x, that comes with the korg legacy collection... in that one there´s a phaser which also sounds quite nice... not as good as the artsacoustic bigrock, but until bigrock was released, that was one i used a lot... the rest of these fx are not my cup of tea, but i liked the phaser... it was a bit high end pronounced, but with a bit of eq it was really usable...

[bitman]

Sound Toys Phase Mistress

[SWAN808]

Ive not tried any hardware phasers yet but the nices ITB ones Ive tried are the Arts Acoustic one and Soundtoys Phasemistress...prefer the Arts Acoustic one...