Favourite phaser for subtle movement.

[tehguitarist]

Title says it all really! Not after any crazy phasing effects, just something slight for a bit of movement with clean or overdriven guitar! Or distorted... you guys get the idea though...

Phase 90 the best bet? Seems to be on nearly every board of every band I like the tone of (Rise against, sum 41, etc).

[Casavettes]

DOD Phasor 201 reissue is great for this as well

[SoaringTortoise]

MXR Phase 45. It is a two-stage phasor, meaning it is more subtle than the Phase 90 which is a four-stage phasor. I may be wrong but I believe the DOD 201 mentioned above is a two-stage phasor as well, and a good choice.

[tehguitarist]

Any worries about the lack of depth knob?

[lordgalvar]

The Infanem Compact Faye Sing B could be pretty subtle. It wasn't that extreme to begin with but the depth and stuff and be dialed back quite a bit.

[rustywire]

A '94 Deja Vibe...so Uni Vibe.
In vibrato mode, depth set between 2-3o'clock.

While most everyone (including me) favors the chorus side throb...the sloppy seasick pitch vibrato can add just the right amount of shift and subtle movement when dialed-back. After fuzz and before delay

[John]

Fuzzhugger's new line "Tidal Waveforms" has the Atmosphase
http://www.fuzzhugger.com/tidalwaveforms.html

I use it both for the subtle boost (level knob goes past unity but not sure how many dB) and the phasing, and keep the depth way down so the modulation is almost subliminal. It's the most perfect analog phaser. Higher settings are so chewy and ungh yesss, even though I never use them for the band that board is for.

Atmosphase makes the Small Stone and Phase 90 dig their own graves, and then bashes them over the head with the shovel.

[SoaringTortoise]

Any worries about the lack of depth knob?

Perhaps at the faster speeds where the phasing is more noticeable, but not at the slower speeds. Any of the phasors mentioned above which have depth knobs will probably accomplish what you are looking for. It is just that the overall sweep of a two-stage vs four-stage phaser is more subtle and can not be accomplished with a four-stage unit unless it has provisions for switching out two of the phase stages.

[Gigahearts_FX]

Lovetone doppelgänger

[PanicProne]

If you're after very subtle phasing I think nothing really beats the Blackout Effectors Whetstone. Plenty of options an can get really slow but definitely is the one for subtle stuff. I sold mine a few years back, sounded fantastic, but the main reason it was too subtle for me.

[DarkAxel]

Yep, from what I had, Whetstone can get some amazing subtle sounds, thick vibrato and stuff like that. It can really make your signal move nicely without being too obvious

[tuj]

Malekko Omicron Phaser
Mooer Ninety Orange

[frigid midget]

Two peds that might do the trick:

DOD Vibrothang. It's kind of like a vibrato/lesly, and incapable of swooshing the crap out of your tone.
MXR Phase 45. Just a warm analog phaser, pretty much the opposite of a Small Stone in terms of throb/swoosh.

Both were REALLY subtle and warm and beatiful imo. Which is why I didn't bond with them and had to flip em

Rocking a DOD FX20 these days, which is more in the Small Stone category I guess.

[bigchiefbc]

I loved the 2 stage mode on the Whetstone, and the low pass mode was cool too. I just dig pedals that have so much versatility.

[DarkAxel]

DOD Vibrothang. It's kind of like a vibrato/lesly, and incapable of swooshing the crap out of your tone.

fine line between subtle and "barely doing anything because just really ineffective"