Recommend some very versitile/tweakable phasers! I like reeeeaaalllly long, airy sweeps in conjunction with some of my delay and reverb pedals. Budget around $240, willing to go used.
Maxon PH350 - Factory of phase. 3 different stages. Negative and positive feedback. Also, the Diamond and Red Witch look great.
I'm a HUGE fan of the psilocybe...but in terms of tweakability I think I'd have to look at the subdecay quasar first.
I love my Moogerfooger Phaser and I've tried and owned quite a number of them. It's the warmest and most tweakable phaser I've ever experienced. The Red Witch Deluxe Moon Phaser is awesome too, however it sounds more hi-fish then the Moog. The Boss PH-1 phaser is very warm sounding too, however it has a very small phase sweep range and its pretty hard to get one in a decent condition.
I recently picked up an Option 5 Destination Phase and I'm quite happy with it. It seems to specialize in the slow and lush sounds that I like best, and has a sort of rich, warm hi-fi quality (doesn't rat out on the peaks like some). Plus it has stereo outs that make for some interesting possibilities. http://www.option5-online.com/option5.html The video here gives you a pretty good idea: http://www.proguitarshop.com/product.php?ProductID=902&CategoryID=22
Though it is about 50 clams more than your budget, I'd definitely save a little more and go for the Diamond Phaser. Great sound and quite tweakable - both from the knobs/switches as well as an expression pedal. Slowest LFO speed is 0.2Hz - a five-second phase. The following is near-unobtanium and outside of the stated budget, but I thought you might appreciate some phaser pedal porn. ProphecySound infinitphase mkII Custom The unholy spawn of a Mu-Tron Bi-Phase and a zvex Seek Wah, this is a step-sequenced phaser on steroids. My unit is fully-blown with every option: 8 seq steps LFO rate LFO symmetry LFO shape LFO depth sequencer range lag smoothing CV mix betweem seq and LFO audio mix pos/neg resonance mix extended speed LFO sample & hold S&H rate LFO height stage select pedal control of LFO rate pedal control of depth pedal control of sequencer range pedal control of manual phase sweep stereo outs Yep, truly a phaser mini-synth in a pedal. #24 of 24 mkII units made. Took 9 months to build. Here is a pic from the builder. cheers, Ian
Just played my enterprise phaser from vfe. I don't think I'll need another phaser. Nice suprise is the vibe setting. I love it. Great build quality. This has so many differents shades.
