Making a Phaser into a Univibe.

frankus

hi Chaps

 so I've been reading that Univibes and Phasers are similar in many ways and that by making the capacitors on phaser non-uniform you can get a more univibe like sound - does anyone know which pedals/pcbs take this modding best?

lasermonkey

The Phase 45 is the one that most seem to go for, but I suspect the mods will work on plenty of other phasers. Here's the circuit diagram:

The mod you're interested in is No.1, which changes a couple of caps. You can either just swap them or put them on a DPDT switch.

I see no reason why it wouldn't work on the Phase 90 either. The ROG Tri Vibe uses an OTA chip and gets a pretty convincing vibe sound, so I think you could do the same mod on a DOD FX20 or EHX Small Stone (or similar) too.

As it's a simple, non-destructive mod, as long as you can work out which caps to change, I'd swap away and see what happens!

frankus

I saw the article originally about the Small Stone - it being a 4 stage phaser but these mods are awesome many thanks

thermionic

Fuzzdog/Pedalparts has a phaser with these mods already as options on the pcb. Ideal!

frankus

Well that's sorted that then I was going to get a madbean smoothie but prefer the fuzzdog delivery time.

Kebabkid

If anyone's reading this and doesn't want to mod or is looking for a phasery vibe pedal, we heard a Skreddy Swirl at the Southern GearFest last week that belonged to @dindude and it does just that in a really usable and fab-sounding way.

frankus

I do like Skreddy stuff - however this is going into an ME50 box with two fuzzdog fuzz faces, tonepad ross compressor (with schooner blend), tonepad dod micro+, madbean zero point micro 2 (with tails switch), and a homemade jen wah

Kebabkid

Love it Frankus and please put some pics up when done, and some sounds too.

All the best with that.

frankus

Will try - if I get my print layout working I should have a treat sooner than that

ThePrettyDamned

frankus;674687" said:

I do like Skreddy stuff - however this is going into an ME50 box with two fuzzdog fuzz faces, tonepad ross compressor (with schooner blend), tonepad dod micro+, madbean zero point micro 2 (with tails switch), and a homemade jen wah

Oh my god I'd go nuts on that.

My juansolo delay is an older zero point and it's one of the best sounding delay I've heard. Super cool!