Noo 12-stage Phaser

A classic 12 stage emulation producing rich textured phasing with plenty of control. The user has control of number of stages, feed forward and feed back, and ‘zero’ depth manual mode – to manually sweep the Phaser using the offset control.

The classic characteristic sound is produced by careful emulation of the phase chain and operating frequency range around the offset control. Equally important is the emulation of harmonic signatures produced by the companded analogue delay lines producing rich harmonics adding thickness to the sound. The split/mono LFO switch toggles between in-phase intense phasing and split-phase mode - creating spatial rotary effects.

There are many different possibilities through varying the number of stages in the phase chain output or the feedback resonance path. Setup depends on the instrument applied to the unit. Lower numbers produce clean thin sounds. A higher numbers of stages produce a richer phasing sound.

Phasing Stages - Selects which point in the phase chain is taken as output. 6 stages produce a clean phase. However the classic rich sound is 12 stages.

Resonant Stages - Select which point of the phase chain is taken into the feedback ‘mix resonance’ circuit. 12 Stages is classic.

Mix Resonance - Controls the amount of feedback into the phase chain input. Classic sound around 5 - 8. Full resonance at 10.

LFO Rate - Variable between 0.1 to 10Hz

LFO Select switch - Sine / Rectified / Inverse Rectified / Linear(Triangular) are selectable. Classic unit uses Linear(Triangular). Slow Phasing sounds great with Sine. Rectified variants can create notches or phase spikes which can sound cool. Rectified variants are twice the speed.

LFO split switch ‘Mono’ setting configures the Left and Right Phase Chains to modulate in phase, the strongest effect. ‘Split Phase’ runs Left and Right not in Phase, creating a stereo swirl for added spatial rotary effect.

Depth - Controls the amount or depth of LFO modulation in the phase chain. Extreme settings can sound unnatural. Setting this control to minimum turns the LFO modulator off and relies on manual sweeping of the phase chain using the ‘offset’ control.

Offset - Shifts the operating frequency range of the Phaser. Maximum settings force the Phaser to operate in higher frequencies. Lower Offset settings allow lower frequency phase sweeps (more intense). In manual mode (Depth = 0) the user can adjust the phase sound with this control.

Preset Name is displayed. Touch and scroll using the screen Rotary for live update. This is a way of live auditioning all library presets for this module (factory, user and USB). You can also select and recall a particular preset using the Library window.