How many phase stages is enough?

How many phase stages do you need?

  • 2 Stages

    Votes: 3 13.0%
  • 4 Stages

    Votes: 1 4.3%
  • 6 Stages

    Votes: 3 13.0%
  • 8 Stages

    Votes: 3 13.0%
  • 10 Stages

    Votes: 1 4.3%
  • 12 Stages

    Votes: 9 39.1%
  • Ew...just use a flanger!

    Votes: 3 13.0%

  • Total voters
    23
The more the merrier! Seriously though, I would love to build a 12 stage phaser.
@bean has one in the works, among other very cool things (MICROSYNTH 🥵)


 
2 is enough, but more is better.

I had an idea for a 24 stage phaser with a 12-position rotary to select any even number of stages between 2 and 24. Plus a toggle switch to remove the very first stage, for those uncommon but fun odd-nuber-of-stages sounds— anything between 1-23 stages.
 
For guitar? You get declining results once you go above 6 stages and need to add more and more to get a deeper effect until you do just achieve flange.

12 is about the sensible limit but 8 is probably more than enough, 6 is where it's at but no harm in tossing in some extra fixed stages, the MXR Phase 100 is six swept and 4 fixed and the Final Phase is 6 swept and two 2nd order fixed.

The more the merrier on synth though.
 
How many stages...?











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EVERY ONE!
 
20.

The most I have access to is 8 via the MBP Glasshole. wouldn’t mind to try a 12 stage. @owlexifry the carrot dangles eternally. Like Tantalus we wait.
This being an optical phaser, 12 stages seems like the most LDRs I could hope to cram into a 1590BB enclosure. I'm thinking 2 groups of 6 LDRs around two different LEDs. I love the sound of the Glasshole, but want a few more features. I'm thinking if I skip the rotary switch, I might have enough room for the extra stages. Just trying to do a quick sanity check to see if anyone else wants that much phasing.
 
The Phase Phactory — Great name, Aentons!
Let's see ol' Zach try to attack that one as infringement.


Dirt and Phasers go together like Peanutbutter and pickle Jam...
Add a derivative of the dirt-circuit, the SS/BS FUCK OD, and you could call it the ...

Phuk Fase

So, yeah, a 1590XX would be perfect.
 
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