What phasers sound "best" with electric pianos?

[alex frias]

It produces a nice stereo effect indeed. But I doubt about the Phaser 100, it's not THE sound of their Rhodes and Wurlitzers, the Phaser 90 is the guy, well... in my opinion at least.

[George Giblet]

I remember seeing a video of Donald Fagen with an orange MXR phaser.   Part of the video is here (I love the internet sometimes),

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/classic-albums-steely-dan-aja/2296754843

At 1:10 you can see the two orange boxes!  No doubt there's more shots in the video.


(Forgot to mention I like Walter Becker's tone on that video.)

[Mark Hammer]

The dual phasers makes perfect sense.  Having done something similar myself, I can vouch that it takes the periodicity out of things and yields a more "animated" sound.  Running them in stereo works a bit better (though I doubt the audience at a gig can tell the difference), but running two in series isn't all that shabby either.

Seems to me that adapting an MXR Phase 100 to have two LFOs, one for 4 stages and one for the remaining 2 variable stages (remember that 4 are fixed) might get you part or most of the way there.

[alex frias]

Please, just take a look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyzdOzCBWws&feature=related

[Mark Hammer]

Yup, it's a Phase 90.  The rubberknob overlay is a giveaway.

[tcobretti]

I have a Cubase plugin called Metaflanger, and it has a preset called Biphase, but the LFOs are locked so to speak, so it is just a very deep phase.

I love it, and generally go for it when I want phase of any kind.  As a result, one day I will combine two Phase 100s into a Phase 200.

But that may be more phasing than you want.  It's pretty over the top.