Strymon phaser , what do you think?

[NickC]

if it had cost a third of what it costs I would have taken it

 

[fig]

I've got a biscuit. -Roscoe Brown

Oops...meant to add something contextual....multi-dimensional eh? I dated an MD being in HS. What a trip!

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

It’s cool, but aside from the very cool barber/shepherd waveform, I’d say it’s relatively underwhelming. I mean… strymon is has the technology and the minds to do some really spectacular new features and ideas for a phaser, and instead they come up with a box with two pretty basic phasers with just a few bells and whistles to make it just slightly unique.
It seems like a severe underutilization of the technology— everything aside from the barber waveform could be very easily done in the fully analog domain at 1/3 the price point using 50 year old technology.

 

[Popnfreshbass]

Strymon stuff is really cool. And it’s great you can midi the mini pedals. But at that price point I think I’d take a Line6 HX over a bunch of Strymon pedals.

 

[HamishR]

I've never owned a phaser and I'm afraid Strymon haven't made me want to buy my first! I don't have a use for one. I don't need chorus or flanging either.

 

[benny_profane]

I've never owned a phaser and I'm afraid Strymon haven't made me want to buy my first! I don't have a use for one. I don't need chorus or flanging either.

Give modulation a chance. If you use it sparingly, it can add some interesting movement without completely taking over your sound.

 

[benny_profane]

I’m thinking they may’ve messed up with the marketing here. They’re leaning really heavily into “PHASER” and vintage 4- and 6-stage analog reference points. They show it working as a stereo chorus, ersatz flanger, and limited envelope filter in addition to the phaser. (Aside: The barber pole / shepard tone mode is unique and pretty interesting.) This isn’t nearly a comprehensive, mega phaser machine. And the added mod effects are rather limited, but the copy suggests these are the selling point (especially the VOICE knob). I wouldn’t imagine most strymon customers know/care about the analog basis for phasers (or other mod effects), why focus just on the phaser there? The two sides are rather bog standard. I guess ‘multidimensional’ is doing the lifting here, but they probably should’ve focused more on modulation more generally.