Ordered my Aphazing today ($189 after shipping). Maybe on Saturday I'll have a chance to post my initial findings. I'm looking forward to mixing and matching it with a few other modulation pedals and some delay.
echorec wrote:Ordered my Aphazing today ($189 after shipping). Maybe on Saturday I'll have a chance to post my initial findings. I'm looking forward to mixing and matching it with a few other modulation pedals and some delay.
Please post yer observations, and whether it can do a slow, deep phase and reggae type phasing ... I tried ordering one off their site, but they were charge $999US to ship to Australia
SonicReducer wrote:
Please post yer observations, and whether it can do a slow, deep phase and reggae type phasing ... I tried ordering one off their site, but they were charge $999US to ship to Australia
On the ordering page for "rest of world" it says to email sales@xnoize.com so we can determine the best shipping method for you. Due to limitations in the PayPal shipping calculator we can't get it to calculate a proper shipping price for every country and we only charge actual shipping cost, no "handling fees". The $999 shipping cost is because we had to put something in there for other countries, PayPal requirement.
I was on the fence with what phaser I wanted for a while too, I had just been using a phase 90 for forever. It was my first pedal and I've had it for going on 16 years now. Recently I got the blackout whetstone and I loved the fuck out of it, but it took up so much real estate in the board I sold it for a grand orbiter. I miss the whetstone but the grand orbiter is doing the job very well. I can get all the washy slowdive sounding phase sounds I need from it
Cobrah wrote:I was on the fence with what phaser I wanted for a while too, I had just been using a phase 90 for forever. It was my first pedal and I've had it for going on 16 years now. Recently I got the blackout whetstone and I loved the fuck out of it, but it took up so much real estate in the board I sold it for a grand orbiter. I miss the whetstone but the grand orbiter is doing the job very well. I can get all the washy slowdive sounding phase sounds I need from it
Yeah i am bending towards the Grand Orbiter, but curious to hear what the Aphazing does...!
The Aphazing arrived today, and so far I'm having a lot of fun experimenting with it. Hopefully tomorrow or Sunday I can give a more detailed summary of my early findings. Tonight's chain: Eterna Gold > Aphazing > CB Echorec
I'll have to try a shimmer reverb in front of mine, I've been running an overdrive to create harmonics to sweep through. Small thing you may not have noticed, when you enable the pedal the LFO always starts at the same point so it gives a predictable and repeatable sweep.
After much research, demo watching and note taking, I think I've narrowed down my next phaser purchase to Alexander la Calavera, Greenhouse Effects Sonic Orb or TC Electronic Helix. I wish the Helix was orange and not yellow, but oh well. I can see myself trying out the Earthquaker Devices Grand Orbiter, Mr. Black Gilamondo, Retro-Sonic Phaser, Tidal Waveforms Atmposphase and/or VFE Enterprise/Tractorbeam later down the line too.
Pete wrote:After much research, demo watching and note taking, I think I've narrowed down my next phaser purchase to Alexander la Calavera, Greenhouse Effects Sonic Orb or TC Electronic Helix. I wish the Helix was orange and not yellow, but oh well. I can see myself trying out the Earthquaker Devices Grand Orbiter, Mr. Black Gilamondo, Retro-Sonic Phaser, Tidal Waveforms Atmposphase and/or VFE Enterprise/Tractorbeam later down the line too.
Anyone know the mA draw for the la Calavera?
It's unlikely you'll have any issues daisy chaining La Calavera. I got to use one for a couple of days, and I never isolated it. I use their Equilibrium and it seems to be quiet.
There's much better volume on this clip. Some dynamics are lost because of the tablet's mic quality and the fact that I don't have it closer to the amp's speaker. You can get a better sense, though, of just how huge and full the Aphazing sounds.
Thanks to the various modes and staging options, the Aphazing can really deliver the qualities of 5 or 6 different phasers. My favorite sounds are the retro-flavored sweeps and watery rhythmic sounds. You can also dial up sounds more akin to the fizzy whoosh of vintage units. You may notice that with the rate pot at minimum, you get a fixed point for the effected signal. At around 8:57 (clock face), you can hear the effect thicken with the sweep emerging.
Here's a quick sampling of the different modes. It's really just scratching the surface, however, because the unit does all kinds of less traditional sounds and combo-modulation textures.
... I tried ordering one off their site, but they were charge $999US to ship to Australia
I can see myself trying out the Earthquaker Devices Grand Orbiter, Mr. Black Gilamondo, Retro-Sonic Phaser, Tidal Waveforms Atmposphase and/or VFE Enterprise/Tractorbeam later down the line too.
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