Man the PH-1 is fantastic! What a pleasant sound to hear

@ReedHarrison

6 ай бұрын

I have the ph3 and it does the same sounds just with way more tweaks

@Rarebirdeffects

3 ай бұрын

Just built a Mutron optical phaser, and it sounds a lot like the PH-1. Beautifully musical. I have a Boss Super phaser and I can’t say the same. To me it goes from best to worst in the series. I definitely am a fan of the older ones.

@preciseaudioblog

3 ай бұрын

@@Rarebirdeffects I agree with you 👍

@zombiemosher1139

2 ай бұрын

​@ReedHarrison not really, it was very obvious from the video that they are quite different

i can't stop thinking of that ph-1r waza great idea! boss has already two chorus pedals in the waza line NOW IT'S TIME FOR THE PHASER!!!

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

Yesss!

Great video mate. I like how you used a green backlight to match the colour of the phaser pedal. Very niffty idea.

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad someone noticed 😁

I’ve had a PH-2 for ages and still love it. I did have a PH-3 briefly. The “barber pole” rise and fall effects were cool, but the *very noticeable volume drop* killed off my initial enthusiasm. Thanks for this demo. I’ll have to check out more of your videos.

I used to have a PH1r but I sold it. I was going through a phase!

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

🤣

For me, the ph3 is perfect for dub reggae music specially the fall mode and rise mode. I always dream of having that ph3

@ReedHarrison

6 ай бұрын

I just got one today off FB marketplace $60❤

@willjones8801

4 ай бұрын

you can have mine 😂😂 i'm trying to get rid of it i really don't like it's massive eq change

@zel6t9

4 ай бұрын

@@willjones8801 in that case i'll be more than happy to recieve your pre loved PH3. 🙂

Boss phasers are sooooo underrated. I know we all love a good Phase 90 (Phase 99 is my fave), but Boss phasers all have such unique LFOs. The PH3 gets a bad rap, but I like it. I normally use it in a loop with a delay with a bit higher output to compensate the volume drop. In the fall mode, with a tape delay and slow rates on both pedals, it makes such a serene sound. I was surprised to hear that the guitar player in Khruangbin uses the same combo/mode in a few of their live sets. Found out through their Gig Rundown video. Both the PH2 and PH3 are the best phasers for Clash/Reggae style licks. Guns of Brixton is built right into those pedals.

I just got the ph3 and I love it

My first Phase Shifter back in 1978 was an EHX Small Stone. When I went to get another Phaser years after letting that one go, I got a PH-2, but my mind was really stuck on the chewy sound of the Small Stone, so I never jived with the Boss. Now, years later again, I'm glad I held on to the PH-2, because I really came to love it's unique sound.

New subscriber here; excellent informative video with no BS. I’ve been umming and ahhing between these pedals and just ordered a PH-2 after watching this. Can’t wait to get stuck in! Keep up the good work - more Boss vids please! (I’ve finally admitted I have a problem, this will be my ninth Boss pedal…)

@JasonAyalaSpare

9 ай бұрын

The PH-2 is one of my all time favourites ✨️

Great summary. Boss should fix PH3 volume (and dynamics/attack) loss someday.

Everything I wear through that super phaser sounds beautiful.

@JasonAyalaSpare

3 ай бұрын

That was my favourite too

The arpeggiator / sample-hold sounds are indeed tough to use with how rhythmically rigid they are but if you use them to create a pad into a wet reverb or hide some of those rhythmic teeth and it becomes more of an octave sweep thing, it can really make some ethereal stuff. Otherwise you can sort of get to a "throw away your television" chili peppers tone

Great video!!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge about these phasers. Very helpful.

👍PH-3 compresses beautifully ( great for hard rock - metal ) .....my 2nd choice is the PH-1R ❤

solved the volume drop by putting in a loop of a lineselector pedal that i use for volume droping pedals like fuzzes, and making it louder than unity actually brings the pedal to life more than i expected and useable way, the freq loss that usualy happens is less percieved

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

Very clever

@yasha4106

Жыл бұрын

so in other words, the only way to fix that is by a line selector? sad, i thought that you could mod the pedal

@sean_shimmer

Жыл бұрын

@@yasha4106 that is just what I found to work, or u could ride the volume knob if u wanna sacrifice all the things that that might do sonically and practially

@sean_shimmer

Жыл бұрын

@@yasha4106 that was just my solution to get by big muff louder that my clean.... And it works for that to so I thought I'd mention it. So as a fuzz solution it works if u don't care about the volume knob riding for overdrive fuzz which alot of people count on . (Like the overdrive/preamp use that people use for fuzz. Line selector open ups a world of creative uses. I have 2 phasors , one in front and one in back of drives and throw it in the line selector that has my fuzzs. So I use dod 201 2 stage phasor for univibe shit much more musical and syrupy. . But in the chain on line selector I use the ph3 for over the top phaser stuff for noise maker basically . They are not phasers but totally use them two different monsters complelty. I had phase 90 and that was best sounding one I think for by the book phaser sound but I gifted it to a friend

@sean_shimmer

Жыл бұрын

@@yasha4106 maybe if u have a 2 channel ao u can dedicate the 2nd channel as a level booster

They could 100% do the rise, fall and step settings with analog technology. The first two are just one different LFO waveform with opposite polarities. Sawtooth for cutoff modulation instead of the more common triangle and sine waves. The step mode could just be a triangle wave fed into a sample & hold circuit. Having a choice of input waveform and gate length would make that setting more useful as well. Also expression pedal inputs are common in fully analog effects units. Also since you mention the hybrid idea, that touches on another common design choice, especially these days. The use of digital modulators (LFOs, envelope generators, etc.) to control an otherwise analog pedal (perhaps more common in synthesizers than pedals though). Sorry for the wall of text. I did find this video very helpful, and I definitely agree that there should be a Waza Craft phase shifter pedal!

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

Glad you found it interesting

the ph-2 is perfect, i hope it never breaks, ive been through a few phasers and the ph-2 just does it for me

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

Me too

@ricky4214

Жыл бұрын

@@JasonAyalaSpare thanks for the review, great video, i've got a crazy urge to go flip that pedal on now

I agree with your conclusion. They should release a Waza version that doesnt suck tone and gives you all the features available and then something.

The PH1 and PH1-R are very beautiful. Never liked 2 and 3. Very nice review.

@WoodysAR

Жыл бұрын

You are: 59? :) (I am 53 I LOVE the PH-2) I bet it is a Generational Music taste thing!

@xsm5525

10 ай бұрын

PH1-R is my favourite uni-vibe pedal of all time.

@FloydColor

10 ай бұрын

@@WoodysAR Loool ! i'am 39 years old 😅

Awesome review bro...I sold my PH-1R back in 2016, very very impulsive stupid desicion. but I have the rest of the collection. BOSS has the best sounding phasers!

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

I agree

First Phaser i bought was the PH-2, still have it but I prefer the EH Small Stone over it. I'd probably like the PH-1r as it seems to cover the same ground as the Small Stone with it's own flavour.

Ph-1 sounds the best! No throaty sounds & pretty clear guitar tone

Lástima que no entienda mucho, porque el vídeo me parece muy interesante y muy bueno. Suenan muy bien los Phaser. Me encantan el Super Phaser y el Phase Shifter. ❤😊

@JasonAyalaSpare

8 ай бұрын

Gracias, podría poner algunos subtítulos en estos videos.

@lucasvicentehuertahuentena5894

29 күн бұрын

​@@JasonAyalaSpareporfavor subtitulos en español 🎉

I have the ph2. Great pedal

Great video. I think the newer boss algorithm Prime Phaser found on the Md-500 (and other multifx I believe) is absolutely insane. That would probably be a great idea on a possible digital Ph-4

@jacobh9344

Жыл бұрын

*PH-5, Boss doesn’t use the 4.

@scramblesthedeathdealer

Жыл бұрын

@@jacobh9344 PQ-4.

@rafaelcabralwilliams

11 ай бұрын

​@@jacobh9344Why not? They used the 8 on the DD-8

Love the sound of the ph2. The ph3 rise and fall are great in slow mode gor noise, dark and light ambient soundscapes. I have a ph2 type Behringer pedal, not as good as the Boss.

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I love the PH-2

PH-3 Phase Shifter is amazing 💚

Ph-3 is sucking in a vintage sounds but very good in a modern stuff. I've used it allot, but now I'm playing with my vintage Guyatone Ps-007 phazer and this unit is very nice!

@JasonAyalaSpare

4 ай бұрын

Love Guyatone

Bought a PH-1r because of your video. It’s brilliant. But I noticed something on another video - they said that the resonance control all the way down is actually negative feedback, not switched off. Apparently the middle position, 12 o’clock, is the ‘off’ position. Will have to give it a test later.

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like it. That's possible with the negative feedback, I've only just learned that other pedals do that.

I sold my 0000 CE-2 recently. It was a huge sounding pedal.

Great comparison!👍

good video, lots of juicy detail

I’m gonna say it’s either the PH-1 or the PH-3. The video game sounds of the PH-3 are too unique. Buying one tonight probably

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

I did a video using the PH-3 and others to make video game sounds.

@naicanpark483

Жыл бұрын

why is it the sound of ph2 not sound as loud as phr1

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

@naicanpark483 I didn't notice a volume drop between the two, however, there was a volume drop with the PH-3.

Thanks Jason. Great video.

I’ve been playing since the mid-70s. I’ve had all of the Boss phasers. I hated the PH-3. I got an old mid-70s Phase 90 and sold the PH-3. MXR nailed it in 1974.

Hej! BOSS gör väldigt bra pedaler och deras Phaser låter fräckt!

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

väldigt fräckt!

lets see a ph-2w or ph-1rw release this year

Wow I got a ph3 but now I want a ph2 just for that great double phaser sound on the first mode

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

You should be able to get it with the PH-3, just set it to 10 stage mode, turn the depth right up and the resonance up to 2:00.

I have all 4, currently, the PH-1r is on my board.

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

😃

I have all of them except the PH-3, I bought the PH-2 the month they were released…now that’s middle aged for ya! 😅 All great phasers, I have a real soft spot for the unique sounding PH-2.

Cool. Jappy uou did the phr vs as ive the three knob but picking up a ph1 tomorrow. Also have a mxr which to me is the so looking forward to using the ph 1

Great stuff man

@JasonAyalaSpare

8 ай бұрын

Thanks

Really great info thanks, I was going to buy a PH-3 but I won't because of the volume drop.

@ReedHarrison

6 ай бұрын

I just got a ph3 today. I didn't notice any volume drop at all

I have all four too, but the Rhodes still sounds great through the PH-1.

Excelent review. Thak you.

12:41 You are incorrect about this. The feedback IS, for all intents and purposes, instant. The reason it sounds like the sweep has echoes of itself is because the PH-2 has at least twice the stages as its predecessors, which results in more peaks/troughs on the frequency spectrum. As those several resonances sweep through the most prominently audible range of the audio spectrum one after the next, you get a sort of repeating effect to the sweep. This is considerably less noticeable in 4 stage phasers like the Small Stone, Phase 90, and PH-1(r), in part because they only have 2 notches (and peaks, if you up the resonance), and because the notches and peaks are wider than those of higher-stage phasers. Phaser is not really a time based effect, it’s more akin to a filter in practice.

@LentilsOverkill

8 ай бұрын

As for mode 2, the main reason it sounds different is that where mode 1 has 8 stages, mode 2 has 12.

My PH-2 has been modded to be PSA-9v. But I never got on with this pedal cause when switched on took over the sound. Couldn't really hear delay, reverb or even O D. Got a Mooer liquid phase and it's just way better in mixing with other pedals. And it has 3 different waves which in my opinion really change phase sounds for each song. Wave and speed.

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the PH-2 has a very pronounced phase sound. You either like it or you don't.

@sparkyguitar0058

Жыл бұрын

@@JasonAyalaSpare It's not something I would get rid of. Especially since it's modded 9v. But that could also be the extra noise problem. Who cares, I got about 15 older Boss pedals most modded. And I found out this is a black label model. So that's early Japan production I think

This is one that maybe needs the WAZA treatment - I have a ph3 but gave up on it due to tone suck and it’s probably the weakest Boss pedal I have

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

Yep, I was amazed at how much I liked the others more than the PH-3

a pedalboard on a desert island !! yes indeed, but how about the power supply !? i got two ph2. one is destroyed then i bought a second one and modded it. superfine

On the volume.drop on the ph-3 - I feel like I have the opposite problem, I find the volume too high / the effect too pronounced. I have mine after my drive pedals (which may be a fix for anyone suffering volume drop) but think I might put it pre drive to compensate...

@JasonAyalaSpare

5 ай бұрын

It would benefit from having an effect level control.

@gethynwilliams

5 ай бұрын

@@JasonAyalaSpare ah man, I want a wet dry control on every pedal

I bought two PH2 so I can use both modes at the same time

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

😄

Nice comparison. Bleed the Freak!

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

AIC!

Bought one of these from a Hock shop in the 90's for $25 , wish i kept it! HAH they cost hundreds now

I'd like to see a PH-1r Waza Craft version with a 6-stage mode.

It will be interesting if Boss release a WAZa version.

@JasonAyalaSpare

7 ай бұрын

Yep, I'd be very interested

is there any way to mod the ph3 to increase the vol of your guitar? to fix that drop of vol?

Hey do they compare to the phasers on the Boss MD500? Great video by the way!

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I'm not sure as I haven't tried the MD500

PH-2 the best phaser pedal ever made

23:13 Pink Floyd 🌈

21:40 is that suicidal dream by silverchair?

@JasonAyalaSpare

2 ай бұрын

It's Bleed the Freak by AIC

@newmystery7753

2 ай бұрын

@JasonAyalaSpare Oh I knew it sounded familiar. Thanks

I like the PH-1r the most. The PH-2 is pretty unique and has its own sound. It’s a bit underrated as it came in the chorus obsessed 80s. PH-1 I don’t have but I’m sure the 1r is better. Avoid the PH-3, it’s a sterile digital unit with little depth and panache.

@JasonAyalaSpare

6 ай бұрын

The PH-1r is an absolute gem

Ph1 all day😊

Is there any stereo analogic phaser?

@yasha4106

Жыл бұрын

arion sph 1 is your best friend

Great video and comparison. The PH-3 is rubbish and probably the least reliable Boss pedal made. The sound is ok but they often fail leaving only step, rise and fall stages working. Those three modes are also useless for anything other than playing alone.

The sweep of the PH-3 is consistently unpleasant, as though it doubles back on itself - very distracting

Did anyone else hear the Alice in Chains?

@JasonAyalaSpare

11 ай бұрын

I did!

I don't why but the thumb nail being antichronological hurts me.

@JasonAyalaSpare

Ай бұрын

It originally went from largest to smallest.

Irrelevant as they are all pure garbage compared to early 80's peavey phaser. Notably - Session 500 mk iv. The heritage might be just as good and it also has a 'freeze' feature but I haven't heard it in person. The session one is the only phaser I could ever want. What it may lack in extra features it completely dominates in sound. It's so transparent it's crazy. No dumbass laser sounds like here and almost all other phasers. I will likely never have a better phaser in my life.

how do they compare to MXR phasers ?

@JasonAyalaSpare

Жыл бұрын

The PH-1 is very similar to the phase 90, but the PH-2 & 3 are very different. I did a video comparing phasers and vibes that you might be interested in.

@georgefromgreece4119

11 ай бұрын

​@@JasonAyalaSpareexactly

1984

@JasonAyalaSpare

3 ай бұрын

Yeeaah!