- Build Rating
My client (my one and only client!) requested a phaser. He wasn't sure between a Boss PH-1R or EHX Small Stone. But, as always, the community here was extremely helpful.
We ended up going with the Boss PH-1R clone via the AionFX Emerald Resonant Phaser project. It's a fairly densely-packed PCB with a lot of components, but nothing wacky or exotic. The only potentially hard part is matching four JFETs, but I took the easy approach and ordered pre-matched JFETs from Aion. But all in all, a pretty unremarkable build.
I previously didn't have a phaser, so I took the opportunity to build two, one for me, and one for the client. Mine is the silver one - I used the cheaper unfinished enclosure for myself so I could test out the new Sunnyscopa waterslide GW1-Pro glue. The artwork was my client's suggestion, and I shamelessly used the same for my own phaser.
I use momentary soft-touch based bypass schemes for all my builds, and this is what my client prefers as well. So here I'm using the CMOS hex inverter based relay bypass (it's the smaller PCB at the bottom of the enclosure).
Both worked without issue on first power-on. I really wasn't getting much of the phase effect, but that was quickly remedied with an adjustment of the bias. I just biased by ear, and they both sound great to me. As this is the first time I've played a phaser in over 25 years, I can't really comment much on it's sound or anything, other than it sounds like a phaser!
We ended up going with the Boss PH-1R clone via the AionFX Emerald Resonant Phaser project. It's a fairly densely-packed PCB with a lot of components, but nothing wacky or exotic. The only potentially hard part is matching four JFETs, but I took the easy approach and ordered pre-matched JFETs from Aion. But all in all, a pretty unremarkable build.
I previously didn't have a phaser, so I took the opportunity to build two, one for me, and one for the client. Mine is the silver one - I used the cheaper unfinished enclosure for myself so I could test out the new Sunnyscopa waterslide GW1-Pro glue. The artwork was my client's suggestion, and I shamelessly used the same for my own phaser.
I use momentary soft-touch based bypass schemes for all my builds, and this is what my client prefers as well. So here I'm using the CMOS hex inverter based relay bypass (it's the smaller PCB at the bottom of the enclosure).
Both worked without issue on first power-on. I really wasn't getting much of the phase effect, but that was quickly remedied with an adjustment of the bias. I just biased by ear, and they both sound great to me. As this is the first time I've played a phaser in over 25 years, I can't really comment much on it's sound or anything, other than it sounds like a phaser!
